Comments on: Can a Laymen Give a Blessing? https://catalog.obitel-minsk.com/blog/2018/06/can-laymen-give-blessing Fri, 19 Mar 2021 00:47:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: Symeon https://catalog.obitel-minsk.com/blog/2018/06/can-laymen-give-blessing#comment-2439 Fri, 19 Mar 2021 00:47:21 +0000 https://blog.smallpage.online/2018/06/12/can-laymen-give-blessing/#comment-2439 Thank you for the good information !

]]> By: Anonymous https://catalog.obitel-minsk.com/blog/2018/06/can-laymen-give-blessing#comment-229 Fri, 15 Jun 2018 08:37:47 +0000 https://blog.smallpage.online/2018/06/12/can-laymen-give-blessing/#comment-229 In reply to Justin Bingham.

I think there's nothing wrong if you did so before, but at the same time there is just no need to make the same gesture as priests do. We, laymen, just cross someone in the same manner as we cross ourselves, just as it is described in this article. This is the form of our blessing. While priests' gestures should be left to priests.

]]> By: Justin Bingham https://catalog.obitel-minsk.com/blog/2018/06/can-laymen-give-blessing#comment-228 Tue, 12 Jun 2018 23:45:59 +0000 https://blog.smallpage.online/2018/06/12/can-laymen-give-blessing/#comment-228 Are there ever situations, let's say for instance and Orthodox believer is in a predominantly non-Christian country, where a lay person can make the sign of the cross or blessing in the same form as a priest? By this I mean using the same hand gesture. I live in Japan where there are very few orthodox and I often find myself covertly making the sign of the cross over my students and I was just curious so as to not accidentally do something I shouldn't.

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