Sign of the Cross : Profound Meaning & History #Jesus

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

''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!

Outstanding video man & thank you for this🙏

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!

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.

thank you for this. Christ is King

Thank you

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

Amen.

I got chills at "We belong to Christ"! Amen!

Thanks. May God bless you forever

❤ Thank you, excellent and important information

Thanks!

Thank you! ❤

Thank you for the video, was very informative! I'll from now on, make the sign of the cross more reverently and with purpose!!

How magnificent is the gift of the Church and it's traditions. We would be lost without it

Thank you and God bless you!! ✝️🙏🏻

Very interesting, thank you. I believe the Hebrew letter, tau, means ‘covenant,’ which is also meaningful when we cross ourselves!

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.😊

Good for instruction to the people.✝️🇮🇳

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.

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.

JESUS IS KING OF KINGS AMEN 🙏 ❤

Out of curiosity, why do the Eastern traditions sign themselves from the right to the left?

Thank you, amazing video. God bless

Just one of the many Sacramentals; (Holy Water, Blessed Candles, The Apostles Creed, etc.) given to us Catholics by the Catholic Apostles.

Thank you Sir. God bless

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!💯🙏🏽

Excellent history lesson.

I greatly appreciate you making this video!! I hadn't really noticed how important and powerful the Sign of the Cruz truly is!! <3 Amen.

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.

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).

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🕯🕯🕯🥀

Was it my married Deacon who said this? Father = LOVER, Son = BELOVED, Holy Spirit = LOVE ITSELF.

By our LORD'S holy cross he has redeemed the world, Amen

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! ❤

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.

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

As a Protestant, I do the Sign of the Cross whenever I pray. God bless.

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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?

I found this quite helpful thank you.