“Thus in our prayer we use words not just literally but beautifully; through poetic imagery – even if the texts are in rhythmic prose rather than rhymed stanzas – we endow the words with a new dimension of meaning.
We worship, moreover, not through words only but in a wide variety of other ways: through music, through the splendor of the priestly vestments,
through the color and lines of the holy icons, through the articulation of sacred space in the design of the church building,
through symbolic gestures such as the sign of the cross, the offering of incense, or the lighting of a candle,
and through the employment of all great ‘archetypes,’ of all the basic constituents of human life, such as water, wine and bread, fire and oil.” (Bishop Kallistos Ware, The Inner Kingdom, pg. 63)
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