crossing themselves
crossing themselves when there is a significant difference you have when you enter an Orthodox church noticed the same. We'd like to try to explain briefly, because this external feature is often not understood.
1.We Orthodox Christians cross themselves with us three folded fingers (thumb, index and middle fingers ) of the right hand (because we ensure that the Trinity do God's express or internalize) and the last finger to press the palm. This symbolizes the two natures in Christ, we believe in Jesus Christ, true God and true man.
second the name of the Father , - we say and touch our forehead
third son -. the belly is touched
4th and the Holy Spirit - first right, then left the affected chest . (Talita)
The reasoning amen for the accuracy of self-crossing themselves from the right is left is that the Orthodox believer takes over the priest donated blessing and did not even bless.
The priest blesses the congregation from left to right, and the believer who confronts him, took the blessing, speaking of right to left (ie quasi-mirror image) crossing himself.
This was introduced after the split of 1054 under Pope Innocent II (1130-1143).
The Lord Jesus Christ from heaven (upper-end ) come down to us and - did not (right to left) defeated the devil, who is a dark, dark, left and lifeless beings, by His invincible power of God (Peter of Damascus). See also Mt 25.33 "He will place the sheep on his right and the goats on his left."
"Since our childhood we have learned us to cross himself with the sign of the cross, and when we cross himself to us, we speak inwardly:" In the name of the Father, the Son and of the Holy Spirit. "
We must penetrate into these words of prayer, we cross themselves without haste and by the way the cross and "break" not, as it says in the preface to the Psalter.
The cross is broken if we are mechanical sign of the cross, waving his hand over his chest. If we beat the cross on this way, it is not right.
Shall we, therefore, always be mindful, we want to draw the sign of the cross properly and without haste on us. Because only a properly drawn Cross will be effective and drive the unclean forces from us and protect us from all evil. "
This was crucified on the cross of our Lord Jesus formed. As we know from the Bible that the Lord Jesus at the right hand of the Father set has the crossing themselves is correspondingly from right to left, for we sense.
The basic idea is that sealed the believer with the Sign of the Cross, is therefore his whole life among them, so crosses it during the personal prayers, during our worship services, just as you enter and leave our churches and others on numerous occasions.
In the quarterly journal THE NARROW PATH / Volume 27 (March / April 2009) is found on a very interesting and definitely worth reading Posted by priest monk Ephrem "How and why we should cross himself to us?"
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