{"id":3457,"date":"2023-02-23T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/?p=3457"},"modified":"2023-02-27T17:43:07","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T01:43:07","slug":"make-the-sign-of-the-cross-for-anything-you-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/make-the-sign-of-the-cross-for-anything-you-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Make the Sign of the Cross for Anything You Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Sign_of_Cross_Always_01_950x545.jpg\" alt=\"Make the Sign of the Cross for Anything You Do\" width=\"950\" height=\"545\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Sign_of_Cross_Always_01_950x545.jpg 950w, https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Sign_of_Cross_Always_01_950x545-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Sign_of_Cross_Always_01_950x545-768x441.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/>by Elder Cleopa of Romania &#8211;<br \/>\nDo not do anything without signing yourself with the sign of the Cross! <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>When you depart on a journey, when you begin your work, when you go to study, when you are alone, and when you are with other people, seal yourself with the Holy Cross on your forehead, your body, your chest, your heart, your lips, your eyes, your ears. All of you should be sealed with the sign of Christ\u2019s victory over hell. <\/p>\n<p>Then you will no longer be afraid of charms, evil spirits, or sorcery, because these are dissolved by the power of the Cross like wax before fire and like dust before the wind.<br \/>\n~ Elder Cleopa of Romania<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Elder Cleopa of Romania &#8211; Do not do anything without signing yourself with the sign of the Cross!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,26,21,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-orthodox-christianity","category-orthodox-church","category-prayer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}