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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