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  • In the Nine Postures of St. Dominic, he proposes nine different ways of praying, each marked by a different bodily posture, including bowing the head, striking the breast, bowing at the waist, genuflecting, prostration the legitimate Catholic form, kisses, and orans.

    Archive 2008-05-01 Luxury Home 2008

  • And I certainly don't put my hands in the orans position I think that's the word like a priest!

    Touchdown Dymphna 2008

  • It DOES look ridiculous, but sadly, I know of priests who have TOLD people that they are SUPPOSED to use the orans position, etc.

    Touchdown Dymphna 2008

  • In the Nine Postures of St. Dominic, he proposes nine different ways of praying, each marked by a different bodily posture, including bowing the head, striking the breast, bowing at the waist, genuflecting, prostration the legitimate Catholic form, kisses, and orans.

    Kneel: No butts about it Luxury Home 2008

  • The priest faces East and extends his hands in the gesture we call the “orans” position.

    An Instructed Eucharist Fr Timothy Matkin 2007

  • The priest faces East and extends his hands in the gesture we call the “orans” position.

    Archive 2007-03-01 Fr Timothy Matkin 2007

  • When the celebrant at Mass a priest or bishop offers prayer on behalf of the assembly, it is the custom that he raises his hands in the orans position, pictured above.

    Archive 2006-03-01 Fr Timothy Matkin 2006

  • The orans figure of prayer, the peacock and garden scenes, images of the queen of heaven, and the humanitarian image of a shepherd carrying a sheep on his shoulders, were all baptized with a Christian interpretation.

    Homily for the Feast of St John Damascene Fr Timothy Matkin 2006

  • Timotheos Prologizes: The orans position skip to main

    The orans position Fr Timothy Matkin 2006

  • Left: A Christian figure in the orans pose from the Catacombs of the Via Latina in Rome, 4th century.

    Archive 2006-03-01 Fr Timothy Matkin 2006

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