When you begin to pray, sign yourself with the Sign of the Cross in all piety and reverence, for you are placing upon your flesh the Sign of Life. Remember that by this Sign you acquired eternal life. It is your pride in the struggle against the opposing spirits, and your only light in the hour of darkness.
Do not Cross yourself hastily or hurriedly, but let your heart accompany the words and the motion. Remember the Father Who loved you, giving His Only-Begotten for you, and the Spirit Who sanctified you. Reverence with your spirit the Master, for—by the signing of the Cross—you recall your Baptism, which is the beginning of salvation, death to the world, and the life of righteousness. When you Cross yourself, remember that those who have been baptised into Christ have put on Christ. They are no more under the passions of sin and the authority of the flesh, for those who are Christ Jesus’ have crucified the passions with the flesh.
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