What is the Sign of the Cross? Where did it come from? And what is it's spiritual significance? These were questions I had after I came back to the Catholic Church in 2023 after thirty-four years as a Baptist/evangelical.
As a recent revert myself, wanted to say thank you for your channel. I’ve watched several of your videos and all are easily digestible with so many historical references.
Hello Sir, came here from your appearance on The Cordial Catholic. I am a parishioner at POP so it was awesome to hear POP mentioned. Welcome home to you and your wife.
That is so great to hear! POP is where our journey home began, and as a way to never forget, my wife and I are planning to attend the Saturday mass there every year on the anniversary of our first visit back in March 2023. Thank you for the welcome home sir!
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
Talk about death...without Christ's cross you and I would still be dead in our sins. Christians are actually to preach Jesus Christ crucified 1 Corinthians 1:20-24 Would you consider first preaching the cross, then our hope of Resurrection?
@@johninpa8336 preach Christ paid four sins on the cross but life is by his resurrection,, 1 Corinthians 15:13-15 New International Version 13 If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. 14 And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith. 15 More than that, we are then found to be false witnesses about God, for we have testified about God that he raised Christ from the dead. But he did not raise him if in fact the dead are not raised.
