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Add your E-mail to our Mailing List to receive a notice when we update our web site. |  |  |  | Metanyia Prostration. There are three different reasons why we prostrate:- for worship; when we enter the church and prostrate before the Holy Altar. for respect; in the presence of a Pope or bishop, we prostrate before them. Repentance, interior sorrow for sin. It also means the action by which such sorrow is expressed, usually a prostration, or 'metanyia'. |