talk about bread called Artos.What is this product?Translated from the Greek "Artos" - is "leavened bread", it is called prosphora altogether.He prepared a special ecclesiastical prescriptions.
all of Bright Week the consecrated bread in the temple occupies the place where everyone can see it - next to the icon of the Resurrection of the Lord.When does the service is distributed to all believers artos.How to use it properly?This is what we will talk.
Artos: what is it?
use of this wonderful bread began at the very beginning of Christianity, the day when Jesus Christ ascended to heaven.
Believers his disciples and those who followed him, very worried his death and consoled themselves with the help of various prayers, which recalled his every action (the word step).When they prayed together remembering a secret meeting of the evening, make sure at the same communion.Going to eating, they are specifically left an empty place at their table, and invisible, but the presence of the Lord sure to put bread.
Easter
first pastors of the Church, in imitation of the Apostles on Easter did the same thing.It was an expression of the fact that humanity has become the victim of all this bread, symbolizing life itself.Church artos bread baked in a special way.It is the image of the cross and a crown of thorns visible, but there is no Jesus who was crucified.This is done to ensure that people of faith have seen the victory over death itself.Back in the Passover bread depict the sacred letters XB.This belief
associated with this product and the ancient tradition of the Church.It lies in the fact that the apostles at the table left a small part of the bread - it was a fraction of the Mother of God.Thus, they reminded themselves constant communication with her and after a meal with all the trepidation among themselves divided this part.In all the monasteries of this tradition is the name "Chin of the Panagia", it means the memory of the Virgin Mary.In the parish church is done once a year, it is associated with the custom of fragmentation Artos.
sanctify His special prayer and sprinkled holy water on the first day of Easter go all the liturgy, as soon as the prayer before the Ambo, which reads the priest himself.It is so called because of its utterance reading down from the dais before the altar, which is known as an extreme projection pulpit.But usually the priest to read the prayer before the Ambo, not down, and getting it, because with all of the wonderful elevation heard those present in the temple.
Easter bread artos placed on the solea (it is the rise front of the iconostasis in the Orthodox Church as a continuation of the altar), opposite the Royal Gates, on a specially prepared table.And read a special prayer on the sacrament of crushing it.This rite deacon is present (it is a minister of the Church, which helps the priest to hold ceremonies, but on their own they do not have the right), the parishioners and, of course, a priest.In prayer, which he read, he speaks about the creation of the miracle of Christ, when he fed the five loaves needy people, in spite of all their illnesses and sins.People ask the Holy Trinity that the sacred artos gave health to the body and the internal state.They praise God and thank him for his endless kindness and love for people.
Once the bread consecrated, it along with a stand on which it rests, set on a hill in front of the Saviour himself.There is bread throughout Holy Week.
all the days of this festival take artos.How to use it correctly, we learn later.When does the liturgy of the sacred cakes, in a solemn ceremony performed around the temple procession.On Saturday at opisthambonos read another prayer - for grinding Artos.He is grinding at the end of the liturgy, when there is veneration of the cross, and then distributed to all those present as a shrine, then the prayer to accept Artos.It says that the bread and water, cooked in a special way in the church with certain prayers and mood, can improve the health and strength of the human spirit.He believes that he can get better with the help of God, who is merciful to the people, as the Mother of God and the saints pray for the whole of humanity.
Those small particles (antidoron) holy bread, which were given in the church, is very kind kept at home in a corner next to the icons.
How to store?
sure to remember that everything that comes into contact with the shrine, require special, careful and considerate treatment.For example, the paper, which was wrapped artos or unleavened bread, be sure to burn.Houses need to store the product with all the sanctified care.It is best to let it lie in the space artos.
If the shrine is impossible to continue to use ...
If the bread is spoiled, and it revealed the mold, it necessarily must be brought to the Temple and give it to the priest, to the all the rules and made a special prayer burning.
Rite
very long tradition of stitching lace small bags to carry and store the communion bread.If you have this, you need to disappear in some bags, and you will no longer fear that the consecrated bread can be dropped or forgotten somewhere.And at the time of any trouble you with peace of mind to remove artos.These bags are called prosfornitsami or prosfornichkami, they are often very beautifully decorated with sequins or beads, different embroidery and ribbons.They can make themselves or buy in the church benches.
Many parishioners, who recently came to the thoughts of God and decided to devote his life to the prayers of their loved ones, do not know the rules, and are wondering what kind of bread - artos as takingit correctly.Now let's try a little understanding in this matter.
Bread artos how to use it?
Religious people are very serious about all the prayers and the particles of holy bread, so bringing it into your home, dried and stored strictly in any jar or box.Artos - bread, which can be consumed only in special needs, for example, during a severe illness or situation of despair when trouble comes one after the other, for peace of reassurance.Sacred product only eat on an empty stomach, drinking holy water!
Here we learned about artos that it is most holy, and plays an important role in the lives of Christians.But his duly crushed into small particles, it is first necessary to bake.Here are some of the great recipe baked bread.
Recipe
Take 1 kg 200 g of flour, preferably the highest grade.At the bottom of the dish, which is kneaded dough, slightly pour holy water.Pour 400 grams of flour and pour very hot water.This is done in order to give sweetness and mold resistance.All stir and chill.Then add salt, pre-spreading it in the holy water and put 25 g yeast.Mix well and wait 30 minutes.Then add flour (800 g) and mix again.Once the dough is suitable, it put on the table and roll a rolling pin to the required thickness of the sheets.
Cut into circles, to the lowest part of Artos make the circle bigger.Then covered with a damp towel and then - dried, and wait for another 30 minutes.On the upper part is stamped.Then the two parts warm water to lubricate and connect.Both parts of the puncture, so that no voids.Then put on a baking sheet and bake in the oven until cooked.Small baked 15 minutes service - about 20 minutes.
Conclusion
We already know what artos how to eat this bread and small scattered bits.Be sure to read the special prayer and drink holy water.Take artos very carefully, without uttering a single tithe, so you need to do it on a clean sheet of white paper or saucer.If you are a true Christian, all the rules of this sacrament you understand and artos - bread, which you do not have time in my life tasted.
