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However, through the father’s revelation to man (sending his son into the world) and his energies, we can understand that his intention and purpose is to save all of us, not just some of us.

For the Eastern Orthodox to pray means to think and live our entire life in the Presence of God, always, everywhere, and at anytime.

Revelation 1:8 says “I am the Alpha and the Omega, says the Lord God, Who is, Who was, and Who is to come, the Almighty.”

God implies the Trinity, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. God reveals himself to us in this paradoxical belief.

When a priest gives a blessing in the Eastern Orthodox Church, he holds his fingers of his right hand to form IC XC, blessing with the sign of the Cross and in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

In the Eastern Orthodox Church (EOC) the word for sin in Greek is "αμαρτία" which is defined in the following way: 'failure' or — more specifically — 'missing the mark,' 'going astray,' 'erring,' 'severing a relationship,' or, ultimately, “failing to achieve the purpose and benefit of life for which one is created.'

To my knowledge unless supplanted by some obscure tradition with a small “t,” pallbearers don’t wear “hats.”