How-To: The Orthodox Prayer Corner

Can it have a wall crucifix ?

I like what you said about losing ourselves watching tv or finding ourselves praying. I grew up without a tv and never want one based on my observations from that point of view but the mobile phone effectively plays the same role - sometimes and sometimes not, which is why it is difficult to just abandon - and that is exactly what I feel torn between: a desire to switch off versus a desire to switch on.

I live alone and have my prayer wall in my room at the east wall so I say all my prayers there except the Hours I am away and mealtime prayers. I didn't realise compline was communal but that makes sense as it has chanting in it. Unless I'm wrong about that. At the moment I'm struggling to fit all of them in everyday and don't always and I suppose that's a good struggle even though it makes me feel bad for being so astoundingly lazy and ungrateful.

I have been using my kandilothiki/ oil lamp with olive oil. I have heard some say you can put half olive oil and half water with your floating Wick. Does it burn less black smoke with pure olive oil? rather than water and olive oil?

We stand before God and the Holy Icons. We venerate them with incence, candles, oil lamps, flowers, kissing, prostrations, kneeling, bowing, prayers, chanting

Women have to cover their hair during prayer. Also at home. It is a sin to pray without.

My mother's side of the family were marched out of Constantinople and did fight the ottoman empire at the time for Greek independence.

My icon corner is more of a wall facing east with prayer books, a Bible and a prayer rope. With a few icons dedicated to the Saints who I have grown close to as guides in my spiritual life.

We must always understand that we living in this world are in a fallen state of being, we are seperate from God. That's why Paul said to die is gain The 2nd comment is "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them nor serve them”
I believe that this Commandment is there so that we can focus on the fact of the rebirth and that Christ lives in us. Because there's always the tendency for weakness in man to focus not on the power of Christ in us but on material objects.
Jesus Christ is the great and powerful God the almighty creator of all the heaven and all the Earth who sits at the right hand of the Father and intercedes for us God bless

N'a milate elinika pâtir d'en katalavenw englkia please thanks you

Is it okay to paint your own icon instead of buy it?

ST LAVRENITY. Not St Lazarus.

I cant wait till we are out of this rental so we can hang up ALL our icons up again! 📿📿

I am slowly building an icon corner like the top middle one in my room, but I don’t know where to get nice big ones like that. And my mother won’t allow me to have incense nor
candles in my room because of fire hazards

Honestly my phone has been my biggest struggle, that I’ve started to take good control over. It’s very distracting. Instead of praying, or reading, or doing something productive I sit and watch mindless ness. Sometimes I watch spiritual content like right now, but a fair amount is distracting. That said my icon corner is in my bedroom and I use my nightstand as my area for my prayer book, I hang my cross necklace on the wall in the evening, and I place my prayer rope there. My current icons are now I have Theotokos, Christ the Savior and The Creation of the Stars. I use beeswax candles myself but I have considered doing oil lamps in addition. It’s simple but a great place to pray. And I like it because it’s there for my evening bedtime prayers as well. It’s a quiet place I can be alone with God and try to focus on prayer

Your audio is very bad.

Is there a good website we can buy a hand painted Icons?

I am a Confessional Lutheran and have an icon of Jesus with three candles that is used for morning and evening prayers in my home. It does set up the environment to set one's eyes of Christ. Thank you for posting this video.

Is it okay to have an icon corner in the bedroom? I thought I read somewhere that past revered patriarchs of the Church did not condone that since it is a place of marital copulation? I’m an inquirer of the Church and would love to have an icon corner in my husband and my bedroom but wanted more information on it. Thank you and God bless!

I wish icons were a little cheaper. It will take me 100 years to have a set like that lol.

Could someone help me to find some nice incense burners, charcoal, oil lamps.

Am I allowed to make an icon corner if I'm not orthodox yet? I'm just trying to learn as much as I can but I want to be able to pray and feel closer to God. Hope I can get to orthodox church soon. I have A LOT to learn. So much to learn.

Can somebody explain to me why we have pictures when it says in the Bible not to? I’m very new so I find this very confusing. Please explain, with love ☦️

Can Orthodox Christians write their own icons and get them blessed? Who in the Orthodox Church can bless icons?

Is a Orthodox prayer corner the same as an alter?

Is it true that an icon featuring Christ should be at the highest position in an icon corner? I have the center icons of Christ and the Theotokos, but have icons of saints surrounding them.

Hello Father. I wanted to ask regarding a topic which I received different opinions from different fathers (monks and married priests). Is it acceptable to hold your prayer corner with the Holy Icons in the bedroom? You mentioned it a bit that you could. However, I hear lots of different opinions on this and I am a bit confused. I hold my corner prayer in the bedroom with a sleepless olive oil lamp and someone told me it's not acceptable since it shows a lack of respect. Respectfully!

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Pointing your furniture to the icon corner makes such a difference. It becomes the natural state for your home thus making it easier to point yourself towards God.

All saints prayer for me, mercy and forgiveness… Blessings abundant. AMEN. 🙏🏾

What funny is since I have become Orthodox I find "iconography" in children's Bibles and
There call Abraham "father" in a book I had for years I just couldn't see the hypocrisy (unintentional as it is)

Why are they so expensive?

Question: I converted to Orthodoxy from Protestantism. I brought my wife and kids to a Protestant faith. Now they see me as losing my way. With that in mind, I have one icon of Christ and a candle. I’d like to get more icons. But fear they will be thrown out when I’m not home. What do I do?

we are also ortodox and we have a iconconer also at home

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Respectfully, the television is the least of our worries these days. The demonic altar is in our pocket, and without it we cannot be gainfully employed. It seems to me a call by clergy for a radical rejection of technology is long overdue. We ought to be following the example of the Amish.

It astounds me that the Western World is "Christian" yet habe no knowledge of our actual heritage and by that i mean early church

Can you paint your own icons?

What is the best place to keep ikons in a studio apartment? Many write that the ikons should not be kept in a bedroom. A studio apartment is basically one room apartment: a bedroom, living room, kitchen, which is at the same time a room with TV, which unholy content you hear from it. Is it okay to keep ikons in a studio apartment?

If you stated it in the video and I missed it, I apologize, but why is the patron saint in the center and not Jesus? Just seeking understanding.

Is there any particular direction?

A tragedy indeed! I lost so many years being lost in either fantasy fodder novels, tv shows, internet forums! I noticed I am mentally much more brittle that my grandparents who didn't have a tv but were farmers or even my parents, that grew up with maybe 1 hour of TV / week. This can ruin a child's attention span and his capacity for spirituality

I can't afford Icons but I will paint some

Doesn’t has to be a corner- another made up pseudo orthodox idea (modern image). Orthodoxy is not common or universal whether by ethnic or doctrinally accepted ecumenical councils. They pick and choose- just like the Protestants ….

Thank you Fathet I really appreciate your teaching. The west churches are full of demonic Masonic teaching

Thank you for this video.

The first Icon came to me from Romania, and remains in our family, it's over 300 years old. Don't forget to give these to your church for at least 40 days if you can! Many blessings, thanks for these virtual sermons 🙏

I have two. One in my living room centered on the largest wall, and one in my bedroom where I do my personal prayers and devotions. I do have a TV, but it is only on the weather channel.