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Sent: 10 February, 2000 7:33 PM
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Subject: Psych-Spatial Liturgics?
Fr.Ruff wrote
>To preach the Gospel to the heathens, I would guess. awr
>
Fr. Ruff:
> ...and all the time, I thought West was the axial turn for
>that action! I should have realized that the directional practice
>would not travel well.
Actually however, proeemial to the rite of Chrismation in the
Orthodox Baptismal Service, in the midst of the Prayers of Exorcism
and renunciation, the baptismal candidate or her/his sponsors, are
directed to turn to the West and spit upon Satan. Were the heathen
still North in the XVthc.?
Josef Gulka
Josef Gulka
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