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Question 417

Pater when is it the right time to kapinse?   

 

 

Answer to Question 417

 

Any time is the right time, but traditionally our grandmothers offered incense as part of their morning prayers. Our grandmothers would prepare the incense, (which in Cyprus was dried olive leaves) by blessing it by making the sign of the cross over it three times, then they would first step outside and offer the incense to God and then bless the house and its inhabitants.