Your channel is exactly what I’ve been looking for in TH-cam !!!!!!! Thank you so much for your hard work & doing the will of Our Lord ! God bless you 🙏🏼✨🕊️✝️🤍 AMDG ✝️👑❤️🔥
''The demons make their seeming onslaughts against those who are cowardly. Sign yourselves therefore with the cross, and depart boldly, and let these make sport for themselves'''. St. Anthony, that's a classic, goes straight into my note book of golden pages!
Great. I recall seeing Jamie Oliver on TV cooking in Italy - he was in a pre-school and I saw small kids praying Grace. I'd never seen that before. I was 5 years old when I learned the Our Father and realised then that faith helped my anxiety.
Oh Bless him. How beautiful. I wish my one year old grandson knew that. He is baptised though, although his parents no longer go to Church, so for the moment I have to be content with that - and continue to pray for him.
I believe every person who is a Christian should be doing the Sign of the Cross, if they believe in the Trinity! However I was never taught it as a Protestant. It was always looked at as a “ Catholic thing!” Very thankful that you do it as a Protestant! It can give you so much power if it’s done with emphasis and not just habit.
I love my Catholic faith. Everything we do, our Traditions, our ceremonies, prayers of intercessions, sacraments, all of it. It's all for His glory. Blessed be God, Blessed be His Holy Name, Blessed be Jesus, true God and true man.
Thank you for making this video. I will be using it in my homeschool class. We are starting to go through different prayers, their history, their meanings and their graces and indulgences.
Wonderful! Thanks for your feedback! I have videos on the Hail Mary & Our Father, too. Maybe they'll help. This is the Hail Mary one: th-cam.com/video/HvXf2GnSZ9Q/w-d-xo.html
Some years ago, I started making the Sign of the Cross at the sight of any emergency services vehicle in action with lights and sirens. Then I started adding to the prayer, first, asking the Lord to protect and enhance the skills of the men and women that volunteer to put themselves in harm's way for the good of society, followed by asking the Lord to comfort the victim or victims that the EMS workers have come to save, should it all be His will. I noticed with the frequency I was doing this, that maybe I should pile on more prayers. So now, when I see an EMS vehicle in action, after I make the Sign of the Cross, I acknowledge that God is great and almighty and deserving of all my love and praise. I, then, ask the Lord to cleanse me of my sins in the hope that my following prayers will become more efficacious. I ask the Lord to bind my children to the Immaculate Heart of Mary for their guidance and protection. And, finally, I pray for the protection of the EMS workers and the victims they are serving. I feel this is a gift given to me by the Holy Spirit. Prayer is often difficult for me, but this simple prayer I can do in the moment with minimal effort.
Thank you very much for sharing the power of the sign of the Cross. Wonderful videos I am watching some other videos you have in your website it is helping me with my pronunciation and learning of Latin. God bless and protect you
As a man who does manual labor work and is starting to suffer nerve damage, I was very encouraged and happy to share in a very small way the sufferings of Christ on the cross. I have recently learned that our Lord may have had his ulnar nerves (funny bone nerve that runs down the arm) pierced with nails through His hands or wrists. When damaged, this nerve makes curling the pinky and ring finger hard or impossible. May very well be why the Benediction hand pose is done this way, and why Christ is often portrayed with those fingers curled in paintings and statues. I like doing the sign of the cross with those fingers curled.
I use to do the sign of the cross when I was in the secular world not knowing the beauty behind it..but learning ancient Christianity has opened my eyes to a much more amazing and powerful Christianity…im a Protestant btw even tho I hate to call myself that because I don’t hate or protest the catholic church so yea lol
I’m thankful that you are the second Protestant in the comments that does Sign of the Cross! I believe everyone who believes in the Trinity should be doing it, not just Catholics, although it’s required of Catholics. 😊
Thank you so very much for this beautiful explanation. I love making the sign of the cross, even in public places before having a meal. God bless you in abundance🕯🕯🕯🥀
Hello! Would you please make a video on how to do the sign before the Gospel? “Jesus on my mind, lips, and heart”… I feel there are Catholics who do it incorrectly. New Catholics would be especially uncertain of the correct way as it’s done so quickly in Mass. I could use a refresher myself. Thanks! ❤
As a new Catholic I have watched many videos and it was interesting I shared what a learned with a Priest and he said he recently had learned the same thing and how it really helped. Instead of just going to the chest for “ The Son” you should go down to stomach as IT’s resembles the Womb and the blessed mother. Also if it’s done with emphasis it makes a huge difference! I heard a Lutheran pastor online do it with much more emphasis than the Catholic priests typically do.
I've heard that when we do the Holy Spirit part, it's moving from left to right. Is that because the Holy Spirit is always moving? The Holy Wind in Hebrew. I've heard a rabbi described it as, if it wasn't moving it would just be air, not a wind.😊
The Sign of the Cross "The most basic Christian gesture in prayer is and always will be the sign of the cross. It is a way of confessing Christ crucified with one’s very body … To seal oneself with the sign of the cross is a visible and public Yes to him who suffered for us; to him who in the body has made God’s love visible, even to the utmost; to the God who reigns not by destruction but by the humility of suffering and love, which is stronger than all the power of the world and wiser than all the calculating intelligence of men. The sign of the cross is a confession of faith: I believe in him who suffered for me and rose again; in him who has transformed the sign of shame into a sign of hope and of the love of God that is present with us. The confession of faith is a confession of hope: I believe in him who in his weakness is the Almighty; in him who can and will save me even in apparent absence and impotence. By signing ourselves with the cross, we place ourselves under the protection of the cross, hold it in front of us like a shield that will guard us in all the distress of daily life and give us the courage to go on. We accept it as a signpost that we follow … The cross shows us the road of life - the imitation of Christ. . .Whenever we make the sign of the cross, we accept our Baptism anew; Christ from the cross draws us, so to speak, to himself. . .We make the sign of the cross on ourselves and thus enter the power of the blessing of Jesus Christ. We make the sign over people to whom we wish a blessing … Through the cross, we can become sources of blessing for one another." Pope Benedict XVI
@@corfidelis You are most welcome. Our former and soon to be again parish priest emailed various "Daily Thoughts" and this was one I kept. I saved it, as Pope Benedict XVI was, in my mind, the greatest theologian of the 20th century.
The father, towards our heads, where our thoughts and words manifest are realities. The son, bottom towards our genitals, where holy life is literally created. The Holy Spirit, over our hearts, where our soul resides and connects us to other humans.
Some interesting ideas! Your soul doesn't just reside in your heart though. The soul is the life-giving principle of the body and is in all contiguous living parts.
I’ve always had this question and haven’t been able to get an answer as to the right to left, left to right order. When I was around 10 I remember during confession I did the sign going right to left and the priest corrected me (quite harshly tbh lol which is why I remember this I suppose) but he didn’t tell me why. I’ve heard that it used to be right to left even on our Latin Rite but that it was changed. I’ve also heard that it was bc the celebrant would bless the people and when he faced the laity we would see the inverse of the right to left…. The Eastern Rights and the Orthodox churches alike maintain the right to left so why do we do it differently?
Hello and thank you for your comment. The "orthodox" priest makes the Sign from left to right as we do, but they have the lay faithful make it from right to left so that it will be unidirectional, mirroring the priest. I believe we maintain left to right for the reasons I explained in the video.
I'am so confuse as a catholic one religion said to me we also use the sign of the cross when dealing with demons and we sign of the cross when we do prayer to god. And they said it is not written in the bible that we should do the sign. And that us catholic break the rule in 10 commandments " thou shalt have no other gods before me. " thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, ot that is in earth beneath or that is in the water under the earth.
So silly. That is Exodus 20:4. God is clearly telling people not to make idol images to worship in place of Him. It is within the first commandment. They are taking that out of context. God clearly isn't forbidding all images. If He were, He would have commanded evil just 5 chapters later when He commanded them to make the Ark of the Covenant and form 2 cherubim specifically on top: "Thou shalt make also two cherubims of beaten gold, on the two sides of the oracle. Let one cherub be on the one side, and the other on the other. Let them cover both sides of the propitiatory, spreading their wings, and covering the oracle, and let them look one towards the other, their faces being turned towards the propitiatory wherewith the ark is to be covered." Don't listen to such people. They have cast away the Faith given us by Jesus through His Apostles and have traded it for their own human invention. Pray for them.
The priest makes the Sign from left to right as we do, but they have the lay faithful make it from right to left so that it will be unidirectional, mirroring the priest.
Your channel is exactly what I’ve been looking for in TH-cam !!!!!!! Thank you so much for your hard work & doing the will of Our Lord !
God bless you 🙏🏼✨🕊️✝️🤍
AMDG ✝️👑❤️🔥
Wow, Deo gratias! Oremus pro invicem!
''The demons make their seeming onslaughts against those who are cowardly. Sign yourselves therefore with the cross, and depart boldly, and let these make sport for themselves'''. St. Anthony, that's a classic, goes straight into my note book of golden pages!
Amen!
I got chills at "We belong to Christ"! Amen!
Amen!
How magnificent is the gift of the Church and it's traditions. We would be lost without it
Amen!
My one year old son already knows how to make the sign of the cross. Whenever I say to him, "Pray!" He makes the sign. Glory be to God!💯🙏🏽
Love it!
Good for him! May his life be blessed!
Great. I recall seeing Jamie Oliver on TV cooking in Italy - he was in a pre-school and I saw small kids praying Grace. I'd never seen that before. I was 5 years old when I learned the Our Father and realised then that faith helped my anxiety.
@@Monkofmagnesia Amen.🙏🏽
Oh Bless him. How beautiful. I wish my one year old grandson knew that. He is baptised though, although his parents no longer go to Church, so for the moment I have to be content with that - and continue to pray for him.
Thank you! I did not know this. No one ever told me that the sign of the cross was both a prayer and something so profound. Bless you dear brother!
You're most welcome, Daniel! Thank you for your feedback and may God bless you!
As a Protestant, I do the Sign of the Cross whenever I pray. God bless.
I believe every person who is a Christian should be doing the Sign of the Cross, if they believe in the Trinity! However I was never taught it as a Protestant. It was always looked at as a “ Catholic thing!” Very thankful that you do it as a Protestant! It can give you so much power if it’s done with emphasis and not just habit.
I love my Catholic faith. Everything we do, our Traditions, our ceremonies, prayers of intercessions, sacraments, all of it. It's all for His glory. Blessed be God, Blessed be His Holy Name, Blessed be Jesus, true God and true man.
Amen!
Thank you for making this video. I will be using it in my homeschool class. We are starting to go through different prayers, their history, their meanings and their graces and indulgences.
Wonderful! Thanks for your feedback! I have videos on the Hail Mary & Our Father, too. Maybe they'll help. This is the Hail Mary one: th-cam.com/video/HvXf2GnSZ9Q/w-d-xo.html
Thanks. May God bless you forever
Thank you and may God bless you!
thank you for this. Christ is King
You're welcome and Amen! Thanks for your feedback!
❤ Thank you, excellent and important information
You're very welcome! Thanks for your support and God bless!
Excellent history lesson.
Glad you liked it; thanks for your feedback. God bless et oremus pro invicem!
I greatly appreciate you making this video!! I hadn't really noticed how important and powerful the Sign of the Cruz truly is!!
Wonderful! Deo gratias, thank you for your comment, et oremus pro invicem!
Some years ago, I started making the Sign of the Cross at the sight of any emergency services vehicle in action with lights and sirens. Then I started adding to the prayer, first, asking the Lord to protect and enhance the skills of the men and women that volunteer to put themselves in harm's way for the good of society, followed by asking the Lord to comfort the victim or victims that the EMS workers have come to save, should it all be His will. I noticed with the frequency I was doing this, that maybe I should pile on more prayers. So now, when I see an EMS vehicle in action, after I make the Sign of the Cross, I acknowledge that God is great and almighty and deserving of all my love and praise. I, then, ask the Lord to cleanse me of my sins in the hope that my following prayers will become more efficacious. I ask the Lord to bind my children to the Immaculate Heart of Mary for their guidance and protection. And, finally, I pray for the protection of the EMS workers and the victims they are serving. I feel this is a gift given to me by the Holy Spirit. Prayer is often difficult for me, but this simple prayer I can do in the moment with minimal effort.
I also do that. Especially if the paramedic is a Catholic, he or she is Christ to their patients.
Thank you and God bless you!! ✝️🙏🏻
You'te most welcome. Thank you for your comment. May God bless you!
Thank you, amazing video. God bless
Deo gratias; you're most welcome. Thank you for your feedback and God bless!
Outstanding video man & thank you for this🙏
You're most welcome! Thanks for your feedback and God bless!
Thank you very much for sharing the power of the sign of the Cross. Wonderful videos I am watching some other videos you have in your website it is helping me with my pronunciation and learning of Latin. God bless and protect you
You're most welcome, Lily. Thank you for your support. May God bless you!
Thank you Sir. God bless
You're most welcome. God bless you!
Very interesting, thank you. I believe the Hebrew letter, tau, means ‘covenant,’ which is also meaningful when we cross ourselves!
Amen.
Thank you for the video, was very informative! I'll from now on, make the sign of the cross more reverently and with purpose!!
Perfect; Deo gratias and thanks for your feedback!
Thank you
You're welcome! Thanks for your feedback & God bless!
As a man who does manual labor work and is starting to suffer nerve damage, I was very encouraged and happy to share in a very small way the sufferings of Christ on the cross. I have recently learned that our Lord may have had his ulnar nerves (funny bone nerve that runs down the arm) pierced with nails through His hands or wrists. When damaged, this nerve makes curling the pinky and ring finger hard or impossible. May very well be why the Benediction hand pose is done this way, and why Christ is often portrayed with those fingers curled in paintings and statues. I like doing the sign of the cross with those fingers curled.
Wow, thank you for sharing. God bless!
Good for instruction to the people.✝️🇮🇳
Deo gratias and thanks for your feedback!
Thank you! ❤
You're welcome 😊 and thanks for your feedback. God bless!
Thanks!
You're most welcome! Thank you for your generous help! May God bless you!
I use to do the sign of the cross when I was in the secular world not knowing the beauty behind it..but learning ancient Christianity has opened my eyes to a much more amazing and powerful Christianity…im a Protestant btw even tho I hate to call myself that because I don’t hate or protest the catholic church so yea lol
I’m thankful that you are the second Protestant in the comments that does Sign of the Cross! I believe everyone who believes in the Trinity should be doing it, not just Catholics, although it’s required of Catholics. 😊
Thank you ❤✝️🙏🏼
You're most welcome! Thank you for your comment and God bless!
By our LORD'S holy cross he has redeemed the world, Amen
Amen!
I found this quite helpful thank you.
You're most welcome; I'm glad it helped! Thank you for your feedback!
JESUS IS KING OF KINGS AMEN 🙏 ❤
Amen!
Just one of the many Sacramentals; (Holy Water, Blessed Candles, The Apostles Creed, etc.) given to us Catholics by the Catholic Apostles.
I never knew it was a prayer. I thought it was a reninder of our Baptismal vows (BTW - I Liked and Subcribed. Thank you for this lesson).
You're welcome and thank you for your support! Welcome aboard et oremus pro invicem!
Thank you so very much for this beautiful explanation. I love making the sign of the cross, even in public places before having a meal.
God bless you in abundance🕯🕯🕯🥀
You're very welcome and thank you! May God bless you, too!
Hello! Would you please make a video on how to do the sign before the Gospel? “Jesus on my mind, lips, and heart”…
I feel there are Catholics who do it incorrectly. New Catholics would be especially uncertain of the correct way as it’s done so quickly in Mass. I could use a refresher myself.
Thanks! ❤
Thanks for your suggestion! I'll take it in consideration!
As a new Catholic I have watched many videos and it was interesting I shared what a learned with a Priest and he said he recently had learned the same thing and how it really helped. Instead of just going to the chest for “ The Son” you should go down to stomach as IT’s resembles the Womb and the blessed mother. Also if it’s done with emphasis it makes a huge difference! I heard a Lutheran pastor online do it with much more emphasis than the Catholic priests typically do.
Great explanation!!!
Deo gratias & Thank you @josephbutler4925 ! Welcome aboard & God bless!
@ 0:23 St. Seraphim of Sarov, a wonderful Orthodox Saint of Russia. Pray for us, St. Seraphim!
And approximately 4:09!
I've heard that when we do the Holy Spirit part, it's moving from left to right. Is that because the Holy Spirit is always moving? The Holy Wind in Hebrew. I've heard a rabbi described it as, if it wasn't moving it would just be air, not a wind.😊
Interesting thoughts! Thanks for your comment! 🙂
The Sign of the Cross
"The most basic Christian gesture in prayer is and always will be the sign of the cross. It is a way of confessing Christ crucified with one’s very body … To seal oneself with the sign of the cross is a visible and public Yes to him who suffered for us; to him who in the body has made God’s love visible, even to the utmost; to the God who reigns not by destruction but by the humility of suffering and love, which is stronger than all the power of the world and wiser than all the calculating intelligence of men. The sign of the cross is a confession of faith: I believe in him who suffered for me and rose again; in him who has transformed the sign of shame into a sign of hope and of the love of God that is present with us. The confession of faith is a confession of hope: I believe in him who in his weakness is the Almighty; in him who can and will save me even in apparent absence and impotence. By signing ourselves with the cross, we place ourselves under the protection of the cross, hold it in front of us like a shield that will guard us in all the distress of daily life and give us the courage to go on. We accept it as a signpost that we follow … The cross shows us the road of life - the imitation of Christ. . .Whenever we make the sign of the cross, we accept our Baptism anew; Christ from the cross draws us, so to speak, to himself. . .We make the sign of the cross on ourselves and thus enter the power of the blessing of Jesus Christ. We make the sign over people to whom we wish a blessing … Through the cross, we can become sources of blessing for one another."
Pope Benedict XVI
Wow, that is an awesome quote! If I had seen that beforehand, it would have been great to put in my video! Thank you for adding it here!
@@corfidelis You are most welcome. Our former and soon to be again parish priest emailed various "Daily Thoughts" and this was one I kept. I saved it, as Pope Benedict XVI was, in my mind, the greatest theologian of the 20th century.
@@corfidelis You can make a new video adding this awesome quote. ; )
The father, towards our heads, where our thoughts and words manifest are realities.
The son, bottom towards our genitals, where holy life is literally created.
The Holy Spirit, over our hearts, where our soul resides and connects us to other humans.
Some interesting ideas! Your soul doesn't just reside in your heart though. The soul is the life-giving principle of the body and is in all contiguous living parts.
I’ve always had this question and haven’t been able to get an answer as to the right to left, left to right order.
When I was around 10 I remember during confession I did the sign going right to left and the priest corrected me (quite harshly tbh lol which is why I remember this I suppose) but he didn’t tell me why.
I’ve heard that it used to be right to left even on our Latin Rite but that it was changed. I’ve also heard that it was bc the celebrant would bless the people and when he faced the laity we would see the inverse of the right to left…. The Eastern Rights and the Orthodox churches alike maintain the right to left so why do we do it differently?
Hello and thank you for your comment. The "orthodox" priest makes the Sign from left to right as we do, but they have the lay faithful make it from right to left so that it will be unidirectional, mirroring the priest. I believe we maintain left to right for the reasons I explained in the video.
@@corfidelis thank you!!!!!!!
I'am so confuse as a catholic one religion said to me we also use the sign of the cross when dealing with demons and we sign of the cross when we do prayer to god. And they said it is not written in the bible that we should do the sign. And that us catholic break the rule in 10 commandments " thou shalt have no other gods before me. " thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, ot that is in earth beneath or that is in the water under the earth.
So silly. That is Exodus 20:4. God is clearly telling people not to make idol images to worship in place of Him. It is within the first commandment. They are taking that out of context. God clearly isn't forbidding all images. If He were, He would have commanded evil just 5 chapters later when He commanded them to make the Ark of the Covenant and form 2 cherubim specifically on top: "Thou shalt make also two cherubims of beaten gold, on the two sides of the oracle. Let one cherub be on the one side, and the other on the other. Let them cover both sides of the propitiatory, spreading their wings, and covering the oracle, and let them look one towards the other, their faces being turned towards the propitiatory wherewith the ark is to be covered." Don't listen to such people. They have cast away the Faith given us by Jesus through His Apostles and have traded it for their own human invention. Pray for them.
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Was it my married Deacon who said this? Father = LOVER, Son = BELOVED, Holy Spirit = LOVE ITSELF.
Out of curiosity, why do the Eastern traditions sign themselves from the right to the left?
The priest makes the Sign from left to right as we do, but they have the lay faithful make it from right to left so that it will be unidirectional, mirroring the priest.