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My best friend is turning sixteen soon, and I have no idea what to buy her for her birthday! She's never really had a birthday party, so this year, we're throwing her a huge surprise party...after all, it is her sixteenth birthday.
But I have no clue what to buy as a present. She's a pretty religious Orthodox Christian, so I was thinking maybe a gold cross pendant? But then, I can't find one that's pretty and $100 or less. And besides, I'm not even sure that Orthodox Christians are supposed to wear flashy jewelry/crosses.
Plus, the area where we go to school (and where she lives, along with the rest of our friends) is pretty much the "Upper East Side" equivalent of Vancouver. People who barely know her are going to buy her pretty good (um, expensive) gifts...and I, her best friend, definitely have to get her something great.
Anyways. Please help? Thanks!
> @ Dustin: Um, Vancouver is in Canada...you know, the country right above the USA? Yeah, hi.
And as I may have mentioned a few times, my friend is a SHE.

How about a scrapbook filled with all of you and your friends' pictures in it?
Like a Best Friends Scrapbook

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The issue of clothing, decent Christian, has a rich and canonical literary tradition. Many of the holy fathers and teachers, who have written about how to look like a devout Christian, believed this, it would seem, a private matter, a matter of having a value of the whole Church. 81 According to Rule 6 of the universal Christian church excommunicated, if put on some clothes not as a general custom.

Today it is a statement of principle, taken literally, can distort the idea of exactly what kind of clothes the Church considers a pious and acceptable. On the one hand, some adherents call modern Old Believers not only to worship, but also to work, shop, etc. walk dressed in ozyamy, homespun coats, caftans, sundresses, etc. But much more common in the other extreme, when a "general custom" made fashionable designs. Therefore, we must carefully careful reading of the biblical words of the prophet: "Uboitesya on behalf of God, Zane, near the Lord's day. Yako Lord has prepared his sacrifice, and consecrate narechennyya ours. And on the day of sacrifice of the Lord, and avenged before the Prince and to the house of the king, and to All obolchenyh in apparel alien "(Zephaniah, ch. 1).

What kind of clothes felt alien to the Orthodox Church Fathers? Saint Ephrem the Syrian (in word 82) teaches us not to dress in multicolored robe, and wearing modest clothes. Because we need only cover, but not heterogeneity. "Reason (smysl. - Authors.) DRC clothing veil be alone is one flesh" (Book of Nikon, abbot of the Black Mountains, word 37). Everyone should wear clothes befitting to him in rank and gender. Helmsman In the book, we find that Gangrsky Cathedral in 11 rule commands put out his wife if she donned male attire (even if it is done for the sake of abstinence), but does not preclude Christians to wear bright clothing. This should avoid the luxury not to tempt the faint-hearted brothers. Some for the sake of fashionable and luxurious clothes are high costs, and such exhorts St. Cyril of Alexandria, saying that, carried away by the colorful clothes, they are deprived of the divine attire. This also applies to those clergy (Book Nicon, abbot of the Black Mountains, the floor 37): If a bishop or deacon wears bright clothes, ornaments, we must correct him, if he does not listen - to bring the ban and eruption. Helmsman (l. 602 ob.) Contains the instruction to novopostavlennomu priest, which states: "Clothing wear long before glezna or from markings or utensils from the mundane", ie clothes to wear long, up to the ankles, without worldly medley and jewelry. Certainly prohibited wives dressed to open the shoulders, chest, etc. In the book of St. Demetrius, Metropolitan of the Serbian (Ch. 39), this custom has been validated as Latin, and therefore heretical.

Old Believers are always serious about the traditional dress, especially the cut of prayer clothes. The temples can still be seen of men in coats and boots, under the caftan them wearing a shirt worn outside, belted with woven or braided belt with ornaments, embroidered prayer or memorial inscription. Women, especially in the choir, dressed in sundresses, and shawls, stabbed under the chin, with a shawl color may vary depending on the holiday (eg Easter at will wear red, and the Trinity - green). Old Believers, who for one reason or another do not have such a dress, wear clothing honestly, in no event shall not expose or shoulders, or hands.

Custom slaughter handkerchief under her chin with a pin and distributed to all old-. However, in the south, particularly in the parishes nekrasovtsev, a handkerchief tied to a node that looks like a custom novoobryadcheskih congregation. Pondering this distinction, some staroobryadki interpret the custom to tie a handkerchief on the site, as a sign of Judah noose, a symbol hristootstupnichestva that has no basis in religious traditions, but is typical for national interpretation.

In nebrachnyh bespopovskih agreement on how wearing a headscarf, it is possible to distinguish virgins. They wear a handkerchief so that it lies on its back edge, and the rest of his wife wearing headscarf "in the corner.

Old Believers usually avoid wearing a tie.

Despite the abundance of traditions, written instructions on the clothes in a little Old Believers. Perhaps only in the Red statute focuses on the appearance of his wife not only in the temple, but on the home prayer. It argues that ungodly wife bower of the cross, if it at home wearing only a shirt (except for three cases: when she goes to bed, or rises from sleep or wash in the bath). Failure to observe this supposed to severe punishment. Overly strict relation to the appearance of a Christian, to his clothes, even created a division in bespopovskom Philippov's consent, when, due to advances in clothing (wearing a cap with a leather visors, fashion hats, high collars have blacked boots and coats) are separated from the other fellows filippovtsy Orel .

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DRESS MODESTLY WHEN YOU GO TO CHURCH


RIGHT FROM THE BIBLE
A woman must not wear men's clothing, nor a man wear women's clothing, for the LORD your God detests anyone who does this. (NIV, Deuteronomy 22:5)


Do not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together. (NIV, Deuteronomy 22:11)

Women's beuty should not Come from Adorments,..
Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair and the wearing of gold jewelry and fine clothes. Instead, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God's sight. For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to make themselves beautiful. (NIV, 1 Peter 3:2-5)

http://www.twopaths.com/faq_dress.htm

1) maintain the male-female distinction; (2) consider the effect our clothing has on our influence; (3) make sure our clothing does not "offend" anyone, and; (4) be sure our clothing is modest in God's sight. I believe these principles can be used for any article of clothing whether you are a man or woman or whether you are young or old.

http://www.newtestamentchurch.org/OPA/Ar ticles/1986/07/bible_principles_of_dress _for.htm

2010-01-21 14:58:58 by Jacob Dahlen

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