Church Vestments

Claddings are sacred garments in which Orthodox priests, clergymen and monks perform a divine service. These garments are symbols of gracious gifts, and without them the clergyman should not perform the sacraments.

 The garment may not be clothing (in the strict sense), but consecrated objects used together with sacred garments, such as: pectoral cross, panagia, rosary, omophorion, orator, epitrachillus, palette, hip.

 In addition, the very process of ritual putting of these vestments (sacred robes) on clergy before the beginning of their public service is called vestments.

 Daily vestments
 Some vestments should be worn by all clerics and monks at all times — not only in the temple, but also in public places, and even at home: a concussionist (the old name of caftan), girdled with a belt, and a cassock and booby on top. In addition to the above, bishops should always wear panagia, and priests should always wear a pectoral cross. Priests and deacons awarded with camelaways should be present at the divine services and official events, wearing instead of boobs, and monks — in all their monastic vestments. In some monasteries monks even heavy economic obedience carry out in workers’ shake jobs, and to sleep in bed lie down, putting on already pure easy shake jobs, that and in a dream in constraining body movements vestments continuously to feel before the God. It is also undesirable for a monk to take off his paraman.
Divine vestments
Incomplete divine vestments
Some sacraments of the bishops and priests can be performed without a phelonioni (sakkos), as well as without a poacher (diaper, saxon). Here priests wear only a shaker, a belt, a cassock, an epitrachille, handrails and a phelon (sometimes also a booby, a camel or a mitre). Bishops similarly wear only epitrachillus, handrails, sakkos (a phelon instead of a sakkos), mitre and a small omophora. On trebs and prayers, the priest usually puts on only epitrachillas and handrails, the bishops similarly puts on a concussion, belt, cassock, mantle, epitrachillas, handrails and omophora.

 For a deacon in the Russian Church there is no distinction between full vestments and incomplete vestments, as the deacon is dressed in a poem, an orator and a handrail at all services. In Greek churches, the deacon is not fully clothed with an orator crossed on his chest over a shaker and handrail. In some hot climates, the poem (diaper, slipper) is worn directly over worldly clothing without a shaker.