Worship: Cyprian on Prayer Facing East
Teaching on Worship from Cyprian of Carthage: Cyprian on Prayer Facing East
This is a spiritual discipline on eastward prayer and orientation, drawing on Malachi 4:2, John 1:5 and Luke 1:78-79.
Cyprian of Carthage (d. 258) and other early church writers instructed Christians to pray facing east, toward the rising sun. Cyprian wrote: "When we rise in the morning and at the setting of the sun, let us pray facing the east, for the Lord is our sun and our light." This practice connected daily prayer to the cosmic symbolism of Christ as the Light of the World.…
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