Kissing priest hand
So, my family and I are new to orthodoxy. not even catechuman yet! been going for the past few months. so during Palm Sunday, the children were brought out from sunday school to get in line to receive their Palm crosses. My 7 year old son went up to get his Palm cross and the head priest “gently” squeezed his face and said “you didn’t kiss my hand”. My son proceeded to walk away still without doing it, and after service was done, my son told me what happened in an emotional voice and told me he felt so “ridiculous and humiliated”. My son loves Jesus, Church, and has such a strong prayer life. I feel SO bad!! I feel absolutely terrible. This is a priest that will be stepping down soon, so my husband wants to let it go and just wait it out till the priest steps down anytime now and the associate priest steps in. I feel absolutely terrible for my son and I don’t want to think I’m ignoring this situaiton because I’m not, I’ve been processing it, talking to my other orthodox friends about it. I’m currently preparing myself to speak to the associate priest about it. HELP!