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Day 27: Orthodox Posted: 27 Mar 2012 11:00 PM PDT During this Secret Church on Good Friday, April 6, we are focusing our prayer time on the people of the Horn of Africa. Throughout the weeks leading up to Secret Church we will post information and prayer requests on this blog. We invite you to join us in learning about and praying for the people of the Horn. Photo Courtesy of Daniel Phillips Orthodox people of the Horn are also very conscious of their sinfulness before God. They work very hard to try to appear right before Him. A faithful Orthodox follower will arise at the dawn call to mass, or before dawn during holy days (over 200 a year), cover their heads and shoulders in a traditional white cotton cloth, and walk to the village's or neighborhood's Orthodox church. They will spend the morning at the church, listening to mass in a language they cannot understand, and praying ritualistic prayers in order to appear right before God. They believe that if they just work hard enough to please God, and if they appeal to Him through the saints, angels, and Mary, they will someday be seen as righteous in God's sight. Connections Wear something white today and ask that the people of the Horn will know the only One who can make them clean in God’s sight. Pray for them every time you see your white clothing. As you do any manual work (clean your house, mow the lawn, wash dishes, etc.) pray for those who work hard to please God enough to make their way into His presence. Ask that they would know the One who has completed that work for them. Ways to Pray Ask God to reveal to Orthodox followers that there is only one way to be made right with Him. Pray that the Holy Spirit would allow them to sense the futility of trying to earn their own righteousness. Pray that millions of Orthodox devotees will forsake all other mediators for the one mediator between God and man, Christ Jesus. For more information about and ways to pray for the people of the Horn of Africa, visit Pray for the Horn.   Source: Pray for the Horn

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