VIDEO: The Sign of the Cross and Its Power (Pencils & Prayer Ropes)

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2. Outstanding

3. Oriental orthodox do it from the left to right

4. It was adopted without any issue… move along. 🤣

5. I have to do the sign of the cross with my left hand because it's the only one I have. I have had a few tell me not to because you can only use a right hand.
   They recieve a prompt eyeroll from me.
   Once I asked a woman if she would be my permanant caregiver and follow me around to bless me with the cross at my need since she forbade me to do so, and she quickly, stuttered walked backwards and got a fear stricken look on her face.
   Ahhhhh…. good times.
   If you're ever persecuted for being handicapped, offer your persecuter a job taking care of you. They will quickly vanish into thin air.

6. My two favorite cross making techniques: 1) the Greek Bouzouki player: such a rapid and small movement of the hand, making the sign three times in succession, to appear you are playing an invisible musical instrument. 2) the Russian Cosmonaut: the very methodical and extremely curvy arm motion, as if you are trying to simultaneously control your arm in zero gravity while having to navigate around your body's bulky space suit.

7. Hi bojan I have a question. I heard a little while ago that orthodox don’t believe in original sin, at least not in the way people think you do(I know y’all believe that the snake made Adam and Eve sin of course). Can you or someone explain to me this? Thanks lol sorry I’m not to familiar when it comes to orthodox and original sin

8. good to see that you are back

9. I am soo glad that you treated this topic, especially for patristic refferences. But…on which works St. Basil and Blessed Theodoret mentioned those informations? Could you give the title/sermon number, or a refference towards them? I'd really love to find the prime sources.

10. If I had a dollar for every time I've triggered a wave of people making the sign of the cross in church, when I was just adjusting my eyeglasses, I could sponsor infinite more videos.

11. Whenever = all the time lol. I love my Lord Christ

12. Do the people on the hunt for Christian blood HAVE to be Islamists? — A voice from across the ocean, amid the collapse of the U.S. into godless fascist tyranny….🙏🕯☦

13. I thought many of the new martyrs DID seek out martyrdom with the blessing of their Fathers.

14. You didn't mention the super duper ultimate secret Romanian technique of doing the sign of the cross with your tongue.

15. Apparently my priest recently made the sign of the cross WITH a newly illumined baby in hand. So you could add blessing folks with babies to your list, maybe🤣

16. I’m a new Orthodox Christian (you had a lot to do with my conversion) and this video is extremely helpful. Thank you.

17. Always enjoy watching your videos, glad you managed to reference some Catholicism in your images as we also bless ourselves, albeit in the opposite direction to the E. Orthodox.

18. "Effects do not stack" is very funny game reference , but then , why people repeat the sign 3 or more times during the service?

19. I’ve been Orthodox for like 2 years at this point and didn’t know you were suppose to go left to right when blessing something! Thanks!

20. I’ve heard of people imprisoned making the sign in secret with their tongues in their mouth when doing so normally would cause the guards to beat them.

21. 2:36 in b4 Lipovian comes screeching

22. I've been attending an Orthodox church for three years now, chrismated two years ago. When I was new, I pretty much made the sign of the cross only at church or at home when praying. Last year, when returning to work after a covid-related layoff (I'm a school bus driver), I started making the sign of the cross as I start and end my workday, trying to remember to do it as I cross the small bridge that separates our bus parking lot from the employees' parking lot. I was afraid to do it at first, thinking it might be interpreted as showing off, but decided to do it boldly, being prepared to explain it to anyone who asked about it, and it has come up. I explain that I'm offering my work to God and praying for a safe work day (safety is our #1 priority). When I make the sign of the cross, I make it a point to be pause, and that's a reminder that there's a separation between my personal life and work life. I stop, make the sign of the cross, pray for a safe drive, and if I have any stress or worries in my mind, I give them to God, and drop them off there at that bridge.

23. I’ve heard that, during times of persecution, some Armenians would make the sign with their tongue, closed in their mouth.

24. Wait Theodoret is a saint?

25. I’m a Baptist and I attended my first Orthodox Service yesterday. I am excited to go back, and I am excited to eventually learn to make the sign of the cross myself during worship service.

26. Thankyou, very well explained.

27. You are subbed to Razor fist I see! That alone proves how devoted to the truth you are my sibling in Christ. I pray you become canonized haha 😀

28. We Catholics believe power of the sign in the cross.but we use all fingers.

29. I live in a rural small town in the American South. Most people in my area don't know the Orthodox Church exists and all the k ow about Catholics is that their preacher told them Cafholics are evil. When my family and I make the sign of the cross in public, we will often receive some very dirty looks. I actually live this. It feels to me like a signpost that I am on the right track. These looks are especially when. Praying before a meal with. Beer in front of me. Lol

30. I cross myself also before going on a road trip or taking off during a flight

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