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"Let my prayer as incense before thee, and vostanie of my hands as the evening sacrifice." (PS.140:2)
In biblical times, incense is usually offered on the altar of gold. The priest had to put and burn incense daily before the Lord, morning and evening. In the great day that the high priest was to enter beyond the veil in the tabernacle, the Holy of Holies – he had to burn the Smoking of the incense in the Golden censer (Leviticus 16:12-13). He had been holding in one hand and put the lit coals in the censer to burn incense, and at the same time in the other hand to hold the incense. He was vital before he goes into the Holy of Holies to burn incense in the Holy of the Tabernacle as long as the cloud of fragrant smoke over visible all around, and only then could he enter there, where was the ark, the ark of the Covenant with the tablets of God's commandments and the budded rod of Aaron. It was such a sacred moment that the high priest was preparing for it the entire year before this special day. The injunction to burn incense before entering the sight of His face, was given by the Holy Lord.
In the book of Revelation of St. John the divine censers are described as Golden bowls full of incense. The main part of the incense is frankincense. Also called incense smoke coming from them. Smoking incense represents the prayers of saints to God (Revelation 5:8).
Today the censor is one of the sacred special temple vessels used for the burning of incense in worship services and special occasions.
Before you buy, you need to understand its importance and sacred purpose of worship in any temple. This is the vessel which is a symbol, a personification of the spiritual world, the supernatural, the Kingdom of God. It symbolizes among other things the Holy heavenly Jerusalem. And burning incense in the vessel represents our offering to God: our hopes, prayers, repentance, and pure spiritual life. This painting foretells how people will praise the Creator, the Holy one seated on the Throne of Grace by your prayers and singing with the hosts of angels.
They burn incense in the temple is performed by the priest. The fragrance of incense and the smoke spread to all corners of the temple, and every person present during the rite can be distracted from the mundane of everyday life and bustle and tune in to the unity with the Heavenly realm and to prepare your heart, mind and mouth to worship the Holy God.
Itself to burn incense in the temple, in the presence of icons conveys our reverent attitude to God. The parishioners, being on bended heads at the time of incense shows that love and glorify God in their prayers and lives. They pray to the Lord for forgiveness of sins and acceptance of their petitions before the throne of Grace. Like incense, vasilas, rushes along with the smoke upwards, so the prayers of the righteous and repentant sinners flock to God. As the smoke from the burning of incense fills the temple, and the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God dwells in the hearts of all worshippers and the Christians in the Church.
Censer Church – is a sacred object utensils of the Church, sending us an important spiritual reality of the Kingdom of God. They are different, but usually a metal suspended on a special circuit with the vertebrae of the bowl. For making of Smoking aromatic incense, it is pre-filled with coal, which is applied on top of the incense.
It is used during both full and small worship services. In the first case, the priest passes with her the whole Church and small worship service from the pulpit kadetsa the altar, the iconostasis and of course the people. In some cases, incense is also used in the homes of believers.
On the pages of the Orthodox shops you can find Church utensils of high quality that will last the Church a lot of years. Here are the censer round, hexagonal, ritual and festive, with possanzini, the Bishop's five-domed. Used in the manufacture of high quality brass, gilded, enameled, silver, filigree and painting, embossing.
In our workshops they are produced in limited edition or to individual order. Depending on the sketches and wishes of the customer can be used in different combinations of materials, metals, enamels, crystals and semiprecious stones. Our artists can also carry them on iconography of various levels of complexity. Photos which are presented on the pages of products to help our customers navigate in the prices, appearance and the used versions.
The censer of the priest for the congregation embodies comfort, fun and joy, just as the Holy Spirit is called in Scripture, the Comforter, the Spirit of joy. The smoke of the incense together with the prayers and praises of the faithful ascending to the throne of Heaven to our Lord and King of Heaven.