Is it possible to go to church during menstruation? The question of which interests many girls who plan or invited to baptize the baby, wedding, and the days of menstruation fall on the scheduled date. Deep believing women know the answer to this question, and for those who are not yet enlightened, this article is written.
Deep into centuries or where did such a rule come from?
The church is committed by a bloodless victim in the walls of the temple (prayer), and any bloodshed is unacceptable. This is the main argument that does not allow the finding of a woman with monthly in the church.
If you dug deep, the rule does not let the "unclean" woman in the temple goes down the roots in the Old Testament. It was in those times when all sorts of leprosy reigned in the world, special attention was paid to physical purity. Even the church was not allowed lepers, Ludi with purulent and bleeding wounds, women with menstrual discharges.
Why are women with monthly fees in this category of patients? It is explained very simple. In those distant times about personal hygiene and the means used today during menstruation and knew not known. And women did not wash during these days, since Lekari argued that when washing could be infected. Therefore, a woman who exuded SMRArad was not allowed to church and considered "unclean."
Another theory of "unclean" woman
It is based on the rule of ban on a visit to the church when menstruation on prayer over the guinea, which is read on 40 day. On the text of the prayer there are words in which it is indicated that before the deadline for postpartum cleansing a woman in God's temple should not be included. Although in prayer there is talking about the allocation of postpartum succeeds, clergymen, guided by this God's legend, from the times of the baptism of Russia, they prohibited the "unclean" girls to come to church.
It should also be noted that in villages in Russia, women according to the rules of the Old Testament, after birth, the boy was not allowed to the church for 40 days, and if a girl was born 80 days.
What does the modern church say?
Different churches give different answers. For example:
- The Catholic Church does not see anything reprehensible about it, since spirituality is paid in the new covenant, and not physical purity. Even in the Bible there is an entry, that everything created by the Lord God is beautiful, and the occurring processes in the body are natural. Also in the Holy Scripture there is an entry, as Christ allowed to touch the bleeding woman, healing it.
- The Orthodox Church has its own prejudices and promotes abstinence from hiking to church during menstruation. Although modern views allow the presence of the "unclean" woman in the temple, but with the condition that it will not touch the shrines.
So it is still possible or not?
Based on the foregoing, the question becomes rhetorical and every woman must decide for himself how to do it:
- come to church and standing on the sidelines, just pray;
- to fully defend the service, skipping only the sacrament and adjustment to icons.
One way or another, but it should be remembered that it is not worth it during menstruation:
- participate in baptism;
- marry
- commune.
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