“It means faithfulness to the Tradition of the Church, consultation with one’s bishop wherever possible, if not, with other Orthodox confessors. It means saying our morning and evening prayers, attending the services, going to the vigils, taking confession and communion regularly. It means reading the Gospels and the Lives of the Saints, discovering the contemporary righteous, the saints of the future. It means not insisting on having our own way, using the language or languages of the people present in Church.”
(Fr. Andrew Phillips on being a ‘normal’ Orthodox Christian, 2007 article)