Johannes advocare de Villiers Incense swirling in the wintersonstrale by the red curtains fall. Bur

Johannes advocare de Villiers Incense swirling in the wintersonstrale by the red curtains fall. Burning candles everywhere. At each piece open space on the walls, hanging icons of ancient saints. Saints bald, bearded saints, kneeling advocare saints, saints in headdresses. Father Jacobus advocare van der Riet, priest of the church, one of only two Afrikaans-speakers in the Eastern Orthodox Church, murmured prayers as he prepares for the service. One hears loose words - "... Archbishop James ... sin ... Mary." On one side lies the Divine Liturgy of John Chrusostomos, advocare which the little church soon the service will be singing an Orthodox service like those in churches in Bulgaria, Romania and Greece. When the service launch, swing Van der Riet (in a white robe embroidered with gold crosses) a barrel full of incense, which smells Karoo shrubs. The congregation chanted words ranging from the familiar ("Praise the Lord, O my soul") to something less known (about "the holy Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary"). If you are not used to, the chanting sounded advocare initially like a monotone. But later you count the hypnotic rhythm of a strange melody reminiscent of a distant land with sheep and goats and remote monasteries to lonely mountain slopes. The service lasts an hour and a half. The old people must sit and later girls kick off their heels. Children become fidgety and chasing each other through the door. Just five minutes interrupted Van der Riet, a slim man with a Rasputin beard, chanting with a sermon. "Some people ask why not Jesus all the sick heal? He is not sorry for the people who filled the hospitals lie in rows at clinics with their aches and pains? He ... will do one day, but since the Lord says to us: Take care of your sick to the best of your ability and I will work with you to heal them. "Of advocare all the branches of Christianity is the Orthodoxy probably the strangest of African people. Van der Riet was one of two priests who have faith in Afrikaans served. The other one, father of Zacharias Ward, on Robertson in the Western Cape. Father Jacobus van der Riet doens his preparations for the service in Eldorado Park.
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