Orthodox worship is called upon to ensure that people take part in congregational prayer and through this receive spiritual benefit for themselves. In the temple, a believer can not only receive peace of mind, but also come into contact with shrines.
The main divine service of the Orthodox Church, crowning the entire daily cycle of church services, is the Divine Liturgy. During this service, Christians partake of the Body and Blood of Christ. In addition to this greatest shrine for an Orthodox person, the so-called artos can also be tasted in the temple, but this happens much less often.
Artos is a name for a special bread that is consecrated only once a year - during Easter Bright Week. It is a specially prepared yeast bread (the very name artos is from Greek and is translated as "bread"). In the church tradition, sometimes artos is called a whole prosphora to the extent that particles on the proskomedia are not removed from the artos. Artos is not used in preparation for the Divine Liturgy.
Already in the twelfth century, mentions of the consecrated artos appear. At present, it is customary to depict the holy cross on this shrine from above.
Artos are consecrated through the recitation of a special prayer at the end of the Easter Liturgy. After that, the loaves are placed on a specially prepared table and placed in front of the open royal gates. For the duration of the service, the artos are removed to the side, so that the clergy can freely pass through the royal gates during the church service.
After the consecration of the artos, the entire Bright Week is on the salt. During the statutory religious processions on the post-Easter days with artos, a reverent circumambulation is performed around the temple.
On Saturday of Bright Week, after the end of the Liturgy, the artos are cut and distributed to the faithful for reverent communion with the shrine. Traditionally, before eating artos, it is customary to sing or read the Easter troparion or other Sunday prayers.