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Church utensils in the Orthodox Church

Christian worship has been around for two thousand years. During this time, his ritual practice evolved into a system of extremely complex ceremonies. Of course, for the full implementation of the latter, a material base is necessary: the vestments of clergy, the temple room, church utensils and other elements, without which no service and no sacrament can take place. This article will consider the issue of utensils, which is used in the Russian Orthodox Church.

Church church utensils

Sacral objects that are used in the temple space, not so much. First of all, it is a chandelier - a church chandelier. In large churches hang a few chandeliers.

Unlike simple objects of illumination, the chandelier plays a ritual role - they are included in certain moments of worship to designate especially significant and solemn places of the ceremony. Previously, they used oil lamps or candles. Today, almost all churches use electric lighting.

The second subject of common church usage is candlesticks or, as they are also called, shandals. They are something like a dish, dotted with small stands for fine church candles. In the middle of the shandal is placed an oil lamp, in which the fire is constantly maintained. Its meaning is directly related to the purpose of the shandals - they are placed around the perimeter of the temple near the icons, and also near the altar so that people who come to pray could put a sacrificial candle before the images. To be able to light it, you need a constantly burning lamp.

Altar utensils

The church utensils of the altar are more diverse, since the diaconal, priestly and hierarchical ceremonial includes a huge variety of "gadgets". The most famous of them, of course, was a censer. It is such a metal bowl, suspended on chains. Use this device for incense, that is fumigation of the temple with incense - a traditional resinous Middle Eastern incense.

But the most important in Orthodoxy is the following ecclesiastical utensils: chalice, discos, copy, falsity, zvezditsa and chalice coverses. All together they are called the Eucharistic set, as they serve to fulfill the most important sacrament of the Christian church - the Eucharist. The chalice is a metal bowl that looks like a big goblet. Eucharistic wine is poured into it. Disco is a dish on the stand, intended for bread. A copy is a kind of knife with which this bread is ritually cut. Lying, that is, a spoon, serves for the sacrament with eucharistic gifts of believers. The top is covered with a veneer, in order to lay a cloth over it - a small cloth veil. The same chalice covers the chalice.

There are many other, less important items of church worship: vessels for wine, butter, bread, crosses, tabernacles, etc. But we will not dwell on these attributes here.

Manufacture of utensils

The presence of a huge number of Orthodox churches in Russia requires the serial production of church utensils. There are quite a few factories and workshops that offer their goods to choose, but the official and main enterprise among them is Sofrino, whose church utensils are the products of the Moscow Patriarchate itself. It is a large factory serving all of Russia and some CIS countries. It is located in the suburbs in the settlement of the same name.

There are internal orders for the clergy that prohibit or restrict the acquisition of necessary religious objects anywhere other than Sofrino. Church utensils at the same time are of great value and often do not differ in quality, which the clergy often complain about.

Alternative factories produce products of the order of the best quality, both by internal characteristics and by visual characteristics. They are located in different cities and regions. But the main place of concentration of enterprises in which the church utensils is made is Moscow.

Conclusion

A complete list of church utensils numbers dozens of items. Among them there are quite peculiar, for example, ripids - round metal images of seraphim on a long handle. Once they were made from feathers to drive away flies, and today they are used without much sense for the splendor and solemnity of the bishops' services.

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