Eastern catholic sacramentals

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Is there anything like scapulars, saint medals, holy water and stuff like that in the eastern rite? If not have any of those sacramentals been adopted by the east?
 
Prayer ropes, icons, holy water (we drink it- it’s not typical to dunk your fingers in it), oil, relics, crosses, some saint medals (but not nearly as many or the same kinds as you see in the West- usually the Theotokos, St. George, St. Michael, St. Nicholas), candles, incense.

ETA: antidoron (blessed bread), also blessed wine in some places- this isn’t the same as communion bread and wine- it is given after one communes though
 
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Is there anything like scapulars, saint medals, holy water and stuff like that in the eastern rite? If not have any of those sacramentals been adopted by the east?
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Sacramentals include:
  • blessings of persons, places, objects, meals.
  • minor and major exorcism.
 
I have heard of antidoron before, this is the leftover portion of the bread baked for Communion I believe. Does it have a purpose other than avoiding waste? Is their some spiritual significance to it?
 
It allows people who can’t partake of communion to at least be given something as a blessing. Antidoron literally means “instead of the gifts.”

Also it is consumed after communion in the Russian tradition (along with wine - zapivka) to help consume down the Eucharist.

It is also taken home where the faithful can have a piece first thing in the morning (if holy water is present, that is consumed before antidoron).
 
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