The 12 Gospels in the Orthodox Church

In the eastern orthodox church, on holy thursday night, we're actually having is a friday morning service. And as we read the entire passion gospel account from all four gospels, this is a pretty long service. It takes quite a while and its inner, it's interspersed with some really beautiful hymnography. At the end of this we do something called creeping to the cross, that's what it was called in england. This one of the main things that the reformers were trying to do away with. In mediaeval times, there was a ceremony where they would lift the veil three times before unveiling the cross. They hav no tis voh cath

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