The below comes from this website:
Top ten signs that you might be an Orthodox Christian
You might be Orthodox if…
* 10. You are still in church more than ten minutes after the priest says, “Let us depart in peace.”
* 9. You forget to change your clock in the spring at Daylight Savings Time, show up an hour late, but the service is still going on…
* 8. …but there are people in your community who still can’t get to church on time when the clock gets set back an hour in the fall.
* 7. You consider an hour long church service to be “short.”
* 6. You buy chocolate bunnies on sale (after Western Easter).
* 5. When someone says, “Let us pray…” you reflexively stand up.
* 4. You went to church four or more times in a week.
* 3. Your priest is married…
* 2. …and your vocabulary includes at least three words that describe the wife of a priest.
And the number one sign you might be Orthodox is…
* 1. You say a prayer before you pray.
Those are funny! And I can understand every one of them!
Last night at Transfiguration Vigil my 7 year old son was dragging pretty hard toward the end of the service. I was singing with the choir (all 3 of us *grin*) and he was just sort of following along in the service notes that our matuska/choir director makes (waiting for the end of the service).
When we finally got to the last page that has a bold header at the top “DISMISSAL” matuska turned to him and said, “do you know what that word means?” And he said, “we’re *actually* done?” (he’s used to the false endings by now)
I looked at matuska and said, “at 7 years old getting to the end is a great relief.”
She turned back to me and say, “it is at 67 too.”