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#379498 05/01/12 05:25 PM
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Dear Forum Members,
Christ is Risen!

Please forgive a stupid question, but what is the proper (and most reverent) way to transport prosphora to the church for its use in the Liturgy-i.e.(what to bring it in, anything special besides a plastic bag?)-AND, as it is the custom to take antidoron home and to have a little every morning, what have you found is the best to keep it in? I have heard many keep it in their icon corner-in what?-just a plastic bag, or is something nicer used?
Thank You!

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Some folks have special cloth bags made for transporting prosphora. While it is a nice custom, most of us just use plastic bags.

It is best to store antidoron in something that is NOT air-tight. A cloth napkin is good, or perhaps some sort of covered dish. If there is no airflow, prosphora can mold.

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If a nonOrthodox is at a DL and is handed a piece of antidoran after communion what is the proper thing to do (after saying thank you)... Eat it?

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Originally Posted by RussianCath
Dear Forum Members,
Christ is Risen!

Please forgive a stupid question, but what is the proper (and most reverent) way to transport prosphora to the church for its use in the Liturgy-i.e.(what to bring it in, anything special besides a plastic bag?)

If its the "stock" I'm bringing, its individually packed in ziplock and then in a plastic bag heading straight to the parish freezer.

If it is going to be used right away, I'd put it in tupperware.

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-AND, as it is the custom to take antidoron home and to have a little every morning, what have you found is the best to keep it in? I have heard many keep it in their icon corner-in what?-just a plastic bag, or is something nicer used?
Thank You!

We don't have antidoron but if we have any other blessed bread and I would take it home, I'd use the leftover ziplock from the prosphora or just a tissue to wrap it in. Although I don't keep it that long, the latest to consume it would be the following day.

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On many occasions, when attending Divine Liturgy at St. Seraphim's in Dallas, people who received Holy Communion would most kindly and thoughtfully bring me a piece of the antidoron they obtained when they partake of the zapivka.

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Originally Posted by sielos ilgesys
On many occasions, when attending Divine Liturgy at St. Seraphim's in Dallas, people who received Holy Communion would most kindly and thoughtfully bring me a piece of the antidoron they obtained when they partake of the zapivka.

The laity of my local Greek Orthodox congregation do not share antidoron with anyone, but after the liturgy all come forward to greet the Priest and receive from him--and he is always glad to share with me and thank me for coming.

The laity of my local Antiochian congregation are very generous in sharing antidoron with me, especially at the smaller weekday liturgies where most of those attending know me well. Sometimes I have trouble keeping pace with consuming or run out of hands, so I have learned to bring a ziploc bag with me "just in case".

My most recent visit was on Orthodox Bright Monday, and, as usual, I was very well supplied. So much so that I resolved to take some with me the next day when I joined my fellow Pennsylvania State Police Chaplains at the ground zero of the Flight 93 Memorial--that fractured earth which is normally never accesible to family members of that tragic flight. I consumed the final antidoron on that hallowed ground.


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