Editing The Order of Christ Sophia (section)

==Practices==
OCS’s regular practices include daily Communion, evening prayers (in a group setting), thirty minutes of morning [[meditation]], a spiritual exercise performed twice daily for some members, fasting one day each month, classes twice a week, a Sunday service, monthly seminars and bi-annual retreats.  They have two classes per week, one which focuses on the Bible and the other on The Tree of Life. In recent times a greater variety of classes has become available and these are taught by a number of different people at each Center. A series of classes on Mystical Prayer, another on Metaphysics and Healing and one on Mindfulness and Healing are all offered on a regular basis. Sunday services consist of thirty minutes of silent meditation, singing, prayers, a scriptural reading, a sermon, and Communion.  Services tend to be small and focused on personal transformation and sacramental blessings.{{citation needed|date = March 2015}}

===Initiations and rites===
OCS differentiates itself from many other new-age spiritual groups through its personalized  training and its initiations and rites. OCS speaks of three major initiations that appear in all major mystical paths, though called by different names. OCS calls these initiations "Mystical [[baptism]]", "[[Light (theology)|Illumination]]" and "[[Self-Realization]]". The baptism is public, while the illumination and self-realization are done more privately. Though OCS offers these initiations they also stress that anyone can come to know God with or without initiations.