Thursday, March 15, 2007

You know you're Orthodox if...........

Fr. Wayne sent this out a bit ago. Thought I'd share.

You know you're Orthodox if...........
On Wednesdays and Fridays you eat Japanese food.
You are more comfortable standing in church than sitting.
You can suck up the crumbs of bread out of your hand without coughing.
You can sing ison to any song (and you know what an ison is.).
Lent to you means peanut butter, tofu, soy, lots and lots of pita bread and hummus, and services at least five times a week.
You're used to skipping breakfast on Sundays.
On your first encounter with long words, you pronounce them stressing the 'next to the next to last' syllable.
You wonder why the Pope crosses himself backwards when you see him on TV.
You wear comfortable shoes to church, because you know you'll be standing a long, long time.
To you, a 'topless' gal is one without a headscarf.
You get great deals on Easter candy.
Before you pray, you say a prayer.
You don't flinch when someone throws water at you.
When you first tell people who ask what religion you are, at first they think you're Jewish. Oy!
You're experienced at removing wax from clothing.
The service routinely starts at least 15 minutes late, lasts 2+ hours and nobody around you complains.
You consider any service two hours or under short.
You know you're in an Orthodox church when the priest says, "Let us complete our prayer to the Lord", and there's still an hour to go.
At the end of Holy Week, you have rug burns on your forehead.
Your Pascha isn't Pascha without an all-night party.
Your priest is married.
You have seen all members of clergy in purple robes.
You can differentiate between the eight different chanting tones.
You typically celebrate a feast day by observing strict fasting.
You celebrate feast days the night before.
You address the City as Constantinople instead of Istanbul .
You can say "Lord have mercy" 40 times without making a mistake.
You can say "Christ Is Risen"/"Indeed He Is Risen" in a million languages.
You have tournaments of red-egg-cracking on Pascha... And you usually know who's being a wise-guy with the wooden one.
You have multiple priests' numbers in your cell phone.
You actually read the Bible in your spare time.
You've slept overnight in your church for a retreat.
You've grown accustomed to the taste of wine because you've had it since you were a baby.
Even if you don't speak the language fluently (i.e. Albanian, Greek, Russian, etc.) you could still carry on a decent conversation about food in it.
You could write a book on the symbolism in an Orthodox wedding... during the wedding... because they are just that long

5 Comments:

At 11:03 PM, Blogger Bluecanopy said...

I thought this was pretty funny too. I was laughing out loud as I read it and Basil asked me what was so funny...he wanted me to read it aloud. He was totally fake laughing pretending to get the jokes, it was cute :)

 
At 11:21 AM, Blogger Mimi said...

Bwhahaahhahaha. There's some good ones on it, especially the one about food in different languages!

Good to see you posting again.

 
At 9:15 PM, Blogger layne (herman) said...

and you know your kids are Orthodox when...

last week our family was traveling, and as we were driving our son Becket asked: "If I was stranded with $5 and McDonalds was selling ice cream for $5 and French Fries for $6 could I eat ice cream?"

Thanks for sharing the list.

 
At 8:33 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

i thot of the "suck up the crumbs of bread out of your hand without coughing" line this past weekend. :)

~herman
http://papaherman.wordpress.com/

 
At 10:06 PM, Blogger E Rica said...

I thought of "Let us complete our prayer to the Lord. and the service is only half done." today.

 

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