The sign of the Cross is one of the visible evidence of a person's faith in God. It is believed that people are baptized and utter the name of God in order to attract God's grace of the Holy Spirit upon themselves.
Why are people baptized?
The sign of the cross is a small priesthood. He who portrays him on himself or overshadows him with other people (for example, his own child) attracts God's grace of the Holy Spirit. It is believed that the power of grace was given specifically to the sign of the Cross not by chance.
The sign of the cross is not only part of the religious rite. It is also a great weapon of faith. The life of the saints gives various examples of evidence of real spiritual power, concentrated in the image of the cross.
The fact is that Jesus Christ defeated Satan and his pride with his earthly death on the cross. Christ freed people from the slavery of sin. It was Jesus who consecrated the cross as a victorious weapon, giving it to earthly people as a weapon to fight enemies. The crucifixion of Jesus Christ on the cross is an act of the greatest divine sacrifice in the name of the salvation of mankind.
The power of the sign of the cross for man
Any person can be baptized, but not everyone does it right. The Orthodox Christian should know that the sign of the Cross has God's grace only when it is performed correctly and, most importantly, reverently.
The priests say that if a person does it haphazardly, for example, randomly waving his arms, then it is believed that “demons rejoice”. In order for demons not to rejoice, it is necessary to overshadow themselves with the sign of the Cross as it should be, folding the fingers of the right hand in this way: the index, large and medium must be closed together and evenly, and the nameless and little fingers should be bent to the palm.
Any Orthodox Christian who believes in God is required to be baptized at the beginning of prayer, during prayer, and at the end of it. In addition, you need to overshadow with the cross banner when approaching something holy: icons, a temple, etc.
The fact is that the fingers of the Orthodox Christian, faithfully forming the sign of the Cross, symbolize his expression of faith in God the Father, in God the Son and in the God of the Holy Spirit as an inseparable and consubstantial Trinity. Two fingers bent to the palm of the hand are an expression of the dual nature of the Son of God - human and divine.
