--- Isidora Zamora <isidora@...> wrote:
> > Physically, one
> >lifts up the icon and kisses it.
>
> Are they in the habit of lifting up the icons
> where you have gone?
Yes. Well, apparently! They weren't very large.
> I've
> never seen anyone lift up the icons, except
> under very rare
> circumstances. Russians make a poklon (cross
> youself and bow, touching
> your hand to the floor) twice, kiss the icon,
> then make another poklon.
Nothing that complex that I saw.
> > Veneration seems
> >to be particular to Eastern churches; it's not
> >common at all in RC churches, and I bet would
> >boggle your average Protestant.
>
> It made me uncomfortable as a protestant.
I'll bet! ;) Smacks of idolatry or Marianism and
other works of Satan (according to at least one
televangelist I heard).
Padraic.
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