When turning to God, it is important for a secular or church person to adhere to Orthodox church rules. To be heard, prayer should be said with reverence and feeling. The main thing for a true Christian is that the thought always matches the words, and the heart answers the words of prayer.
The times when the Orthodox Church considered electricity, radio and television, and other attributes of technological progress to be a devil's creation have sunk into oblivion. Modern technological innovations are widely adopted and actively used in the religious sphere.
In the aspiration of the human spirit to its Creator, such events as pre-launch blessing of rockets at the cosmodrome, blessing the flights of church officials with the help of helicopters and quadrocopters and others help the training of seminaries, the use of modern software solutions by icon painters and embroiderers, the creation of new books and the restoration of old priests, a set of Old Slavonic texts are inconceivable without computer help.
Representatives of various religious denominations also do not stand aside from the achievements of the digital revolution. Pope uses Biblezon - a digital tablet created on the basis of the 7th Android specifically for Catholics. In memory of gadgets intended for followers of Islam (Enmac MQ and BQ Istanbul phones), a translation of the Koran in 29 languages of the world is loaded. In-Touch Tablets has released a line of tablets for the Bible. In the Protestant church of Hesse and Nassau, parishioners of the German town of Wittenberg are met by a robot priest.
Such religious institutions as clergy on the Internet, the Orthodox Internet resource "Pravmir.ru", the video channel "Father will answer", a virtual online chapel of all saints, etc. are available for Christians in our camp today. There is the opportunity to watch live broadcasts from large religious holidays, listen to sermons of priests, get acquainted with Orthodox medicine, etc.
The combination of tradition and progress
As high technologies penetrate the spiritual sphere, church and temple life changes, and the forms of participation of a praying person in the process of his communication with higher powers are also transformed. A conductor to the world of prayer may well be a computer or telephone. Priest Dimitry Berezin, chairman of the Missionary Department of the Moscow diocese, said: “Praying is a good and charitable thing. Therefore, using a monitor to warm prayer warmth in yourself to God’s sake, to position yourself through looking at his face to prayer, is nothing bad by itself by itself does not contain. " The church rules do not, and indeed cannot be, any prohibitions about the mp3 format, audio books, or other storage media. After all, the main thing in prayer is not a source of texts, but a mental attitude. Therefore, everyone is free to choose the form of the prayer word at their discretion. In addition to paper options, the Bible for the e-book EBook has been released. About 10 mobile applications by the Orthodox Prayer book have AppStore and Android. A special iTrebe application for iPhone has been created, which allows you to remotely order prayers in temples - req. And youVersion’s e-Bible app has been installed by hundreds of millions of users.
Today, as at other historical stages (for example, in the era of printing), the church and digital technological innovations are on the same side. But there are certain canons from which the Russian Orthodox Church departs only as necessary, guided by ideas about the permissible. This applies to the general trend, as well as visiting temples and communicating with the confessor in confession, where the combination of tradition and progress should be balanced and reasonable.
