Oh Godfather Sign

To express our faith in Jesus Christ, our Savior, we wear a cross on our body, and during prayer we depict the sign of the cross with our right hand, or sign ourselves with the sign of the cross (we cross ourselves).

To make the sign of the cross, we fold the fingers of our right hand like this: we fold the first three fingers (thumb, index and middle) together with their ends straight, and bend the last two (ring and little fingers) to the palm.

The folded three fingers express our faith in God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, as the consubstantial and inseparable Trinity, and two fingers bent to the palm mean that the Son of God, upon his descent to earth, being God, became man, that is, they mean his two natures: Divine and human.

Making the sign of the cross, we place our folded fingers on our forehead - to sanctify our mind, on our womb (stomach) - to sanctify our inner feelings, then on our right and left shoulders - to sanctify our bodily strength.

The sign of the cross gives great power to drive away and defeat evil and do good, but we must remember that the cross must be laid down correctly and slowly, otherwise there will not be an image of the cross, but a simple waving of the hand, which only demons rejoice at. By carelessly performing the sign of the cross, we show our disrespect to God - we sin, this sin is called blasphemy.

You need to sign yourself with the sign of the cross, or be baptized: at the beginning of prayer and at the end of prayer, as well as when approaching everything holy: when we enter a church, when we venerate a cross, an icon, etc. We need to be baptized in all important cases of our life: in danger, in grief, in joy, etc.

When we are baptized during prayer, we must internally say to ourselves: “In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, Amen,” thereby expressing our faith in the Most Holy Trinity and our desire to live and work for the glory of God.