It is the
responsibility of the clergy and, in particular, of the parish rectors to
insure that those who wear lipstick do not venerate icons, the Cross, or
anything holy, leaving lipstick marks on them. A notice to this effect should
be posted near the entrance of the church, an, in sermons, it should repeatedly
be explained that it is a great sin to defile something holy by such contact.
Women should refrain from wearing lipstick to church or not venerate anything.
In any case, they should not commune Christ’s Holy gifts without having
thoroughly washed their lips.
By St. John the Wonderworker of Shanghai and San
Francisco,
“Decrees and Exhortations”
Source: http://www.orthodoxchurchquotes.com/2015/09/26/st-john-the-wonderworker-on-wearing-lipstick-to-church/
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