Author Topic: Satanic Sign of the Cross (Read 3336 times)

Peter15and1 · « **on:** May 13, 2016, 12:57:54 PM »

Edit: I can't get the links to work. Long story short, there is a website out there claiming that if you make the Sign of the Cross by touching your chest instead of your belly, you are making an invested "satanic" sign of the cross, and that you are committing blasphemy. A person I know if afraid of being cursed because of the way she has been making the sign for years. Is there any truth to this?

Alexandria · « **Reply #1 on:** May 13, 2016, 01:05:13 PM »

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Edit: I can't get the links to work. Long story short, there is a website out there claiming that if you make the Sign of the Cross by touching your chest instead of your belly, you are making an invested "satanic" sign of the cross, and that you are committing blasphemy. A person I know if afraid of being cursed because of the way she has been making the sign for years. Is there any truth to this?

I don't know, but I do remember a local novus ordo parish had John Michael Talbot come to give a mission a few years back. Apparently, he told them the "correct" way to make the Sign of the Cross which involved the holding of three fingers together (just like a priest does after he consecrates the Sacred Species at Mass) and touching the chest area instead of lower. I know about this because one of the woman who attended the mission was showing others how they were now told to make the Sign of the Cross. :rolleyes:

Peter15and1 · « **Reply #2 on:** May 13, 2016, 01:06:17 PM »

Here's a video they link to alleging that the priests therein are making the satanic sign of the cross:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV7dYWKciL4[/youtube]

TKGS · « **Reply #3 on:** May 13, 2016, 01:36:16 PM »

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Here's a video they link to alleging that the priests therein are making the satanic sign of the cross:

No. There is no truth in any of this. From NewAdvent.org:

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Most commonly and properly the words "sign of the cross" are used of the large cross traced from forehead to breast and from shoulder to shoulder, such as Catholics are taught to make upon themselves when they begin their prayers, and such also as the priest makes at the foot of the altar when he commences Mass with the words: "In nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti". (At the beginning of Mass the celebrant makes the sign of the cross by placing his left hand extended under his breast; then raising his right to his forehead, which he touches with the extremities of his fingers, he says: In nomine Patris; then, touching his breast with the same hand, he says: et Filii; touching his left and right shoulders, he says; et Spiritus Sancti; and as he joins his hands again adds: Amen.) The same sign recurs frequently during Mass, e.g. at the words "Adjutorium nostrum in nomine Domini", at the "Indulgentiam" after the Confiteor, etc., as also in the Divine Office, for example at the invocation "Deus in adjutorium nostrum intende", at the beginning of the "Magnificat", the "Benedictus", the "Nunc Dimittis", and on many other occasions.

If one is going to suggest that this constitute an "upside down cross", rather than think of this a Satanic, perhaps one should think that this is a sign of unity with the See of Peter who was crucified upside down.

Too often people search for reasons to be offended.

Stubborn · « **Reply #4 on:** May 13, 2016, 02:09:51 PM »

Q. 1064. How do we make the sign of the cross?

A. We make the sign of the cross by putting the right hand to the forehead, then on the breast, and then to the left and right shoulders, saying, "In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, Amen." - Baltimore Catechism