Saturday prayers

3 days in and I miss a day already. I have a good excuse though. I spent the entire day at a monastery half way between Cairo and Alexandria, and got to visit the ruins of a church from the 3rd century. Pictures of that to come later.

First, this. Taken in front of an icon of the Virgin Mary in a Coptic Orthodox church. Candles are lit, hands touch the icon, and prayers are said...