:D

[gabriela8]

Ori de cate ori simti nevoia!

[Jane Says]

http://www.frederica.com/12-things/

E in engleza dar explica si despre cruci, icoane, slujbe, si eu imi doresc sa fi stiut lucrurile astea prima data cand am intrat in biserica :)

3. In this sign.

To say that we make the sign of the cross frequently would be an understatement. We sign ourselves whenever the Trinity is invoked, whenever we venerate the cross or an icon, and on many other occasions in the course of the Liturgy. But people aren’t expected to do everything the same way. Some people cross themselves three times in a row, and some finish by sweeping their right hand to the floor. On first entering a church people may come up to an icon, make a “metania”—crossing themselves and bowing with right hand to the floor—twice, then kiss the icon, then make one more metania. This becomes familiar with time, but at first it can seem like secret-handshake stuff that you are sure to get wrong. Don’t worry, you don’t have to follow suit.

We cross with our right hands from right to left (push, not pull), the opposite of Roman Catholics and high-church Protestants. We hold our hands in a prescribed way: thumb and first two fingertips pressed together, last two fingers pressed down to the palm. Here as elsewhere, the Orthodox impulse is to make everything we do reinforce the Faith. Can you figure out the symbolism? (Three fingers together for the Trinity; two fingers brought down to the palm for the two natures of Christ, and his coming down to earth.) This, too, takes practice. A beginner’s imprecise arrangement of fingers won’t get you denounced as a heretic.

[Jane Says]

Eu de pilda nici acum nu stiu SIGUR cum se fac metaniile sau inchinaciunile pana la pamant: intai crucea si apoi ne aplecam sau intai ne aplecam si apoi ne facem crucea? Am intrebat si un parinte si el mi-a dat exemplul sau in fata unei icoane: doua cruci urmate de doua aplecari, apoi o aplecare urmata de cruce :)

[florinbrasov0]

Eu imi fac semnul crucii cand aud de Sfanta Treime. Si in rest cand simt ca trebuie sa o fac.
Uneori ca iau gandurile pe sus(e o mare lupta aici a oricariu crestin) si nu ma mai concentrez suficient si atunci observ ca unii oameni isi fac semnul crucii si ma 'trezesc' la realitate.
Dumnezeu sa ne ajute!