How to be baptized Orthodox?

When you come to church, you can notice that many of theparishioners are baptized completely wrong. Someone is waving his hands in different directions, someone is collecting all the fingers in a pinch, and someone at all does not hold out his hands to the stomach. What does this mean is a little sacred action for an Orthodox person, how to properly carry it out.

What is the sign of the cross?

In Christianity, this prayer gesturepersonifies the cross of the Lord. The three fingers that are put together signify faith in God the Father, the God of the Son and the God of the Holy Spirit, that is, the consubstantial Trinity. And the fingers of the palm express the two natures of the Son of God: divine and human. Thus, the Orthodox attract God's grace.

How to be baptized Orthodox

Triopergia is used by all Orthodox people, andthe priests, blessing, put their fingers in the proper bearing of the face. For the triestertion, the Orthodox should fold the large, index and middle fingers of the right hand together, and the other two fingers - to bend to the palm of your hand. Thus, the Christian touches the forehead, then the upper abdomen, the right shoulder, the left shoulder. It is necessary to be baptized only with the right hand in that order.

If a person performs the sign of the cross outside the public worship, then at that time he should say: "In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit." Amen. "

Why be baptized right to left, thenis to raise the right hand first to the right shoulder and only then to the left? The right shoulder symbolizes the place of the saved, and the left shoulder - the place of the perishing. To the right is a paradise with saved souls and angels, and to the left - purgatory and hell for sinners and demons. It turns out that when an Orthodox person is baptized, he asks the Lord to place him among the saved and save him from the fate of the lost. Thus, a Christian tries to protect himself by praying, turning to God, entering the temple and going out of it, attending the Divine Service.