At Mass this evening, Rev Ted Lawson, a visiting Redemptorist priest in his homily asked how to describe God?
His response was the Sign of the Cross... “In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen”
It is directed as a prayer to God, but in the manner of not pointing outward toward Heaven instead it reflects back to us.
He called it the perfect prayer and that he liked to see at meals and even when a basketball player shoots at the free throw line.
Most basketball players in college would rather slap each other’s hands after a FT than make the sign of the cross. I have seen Catholic football player make the sign after scoring a touchdown.