{"id":51,"date":"2018-11-26T13:14:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T13:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.smallpage.online\/2018\/11\/26\/why-do-men-stand-on-right-and-women-on\/"},"modified":"2019-02-19T06:47:33","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T06:47:33","slug":"why-do-men-stand-on-right-and-women-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/why-do-men-stand-on-right-and-women-on","title":{"rendered":"Why Do Men Stand on the Right and Women on the Left in the Church? Is This Division Necessary?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"featured_img aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2P20160214-PAL_0460-1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"799\" data-original-width=\"1200\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This practice, as well as many other traditions, came to us from the East, from where the Holy Church itself has its roots. In the ancient East (in some Muslim countries it remains even today) almost all the spheres of people\u2019s life, including prayer, were divided according to gender. Some facilities or conditions were for men, while others were for women.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Today this practice is not a must. Such \u201cseparation\u201d in the church was aimed to help people concentrate better on prayer and focus on it as their personal communion with God. The idea itself was the following: standing in the church near a person of a different gender could disturb us from prayer, to say the least. Then our presence at the Divine service becomes just a physical presence, but not participation.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">People\u2019s thoughts in the church must be focused only on God, on communion with Him. We should leave all the earthly thoughts and worries outside the doors of the church. It is even said about this in one of the prayers of the Orthodox liturgy \u2013 the Cherubic Hymn, in which the Church calls upon all the praying people to \u201clay aside all earthly cares\u201d.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\" align=\"right\"><em>Translated by The Catalog of Good Deeds<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\" align=\"right\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This practice, as well as many other traditions, came to us from the East, from where the Holy Church itself has its roots. 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