Eastern Christianity [DIRECT]

Eastern Christians make the Sign of the Cross differently than Western Christians, touching the forehead, chest, right shoulder, then left shoulder, often accompanied by a bow. History and Structure A Light from the East: Eastern Christianity (Part 1)

The Divine Liturgy is the heart of community life. Worship is highly sensory and participatory, involving incense, standing (rather than sitting), communal chanting, and often the use of vernacular or ancient liturgical languages (Greek, Slavonic, Syriac, Coptic). eastern christianity

Icons are not mere art but "windows to heaven," serving as crucial venerated focal points in worship, regarded as holy and mediating the presence of the saint or scene depicted. Worship and Spirituality Eastern Christians make the Sign of the Cross