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    Re: How do you say, "Engagement Ring" in Russian?

    Quote Originally Posted by BappaBa
    Возможно потому, что мы крестимся справа налево, а они слева направо.
    Протестанты крестятся так же, как и православные. Это только католики слева направо.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Оля View Post
    Протестанты крестятся так же, как и православные. Это только католики слева направо.
    Протестанты, в общем, никогда не крестятся -- за исключением англиканов и лютеранов, и они делают жест так же, как католики: слева направо.

    (I mean to say: "Protestants, generally speaking, don't make the Sign of the Cross at all -- with the exception of Anglicans and Lutherans, who do it the same way as Catholics, from left to right.")

    Edit: Actually, although I know that Anglican and Lutheran priests/ministers will make the Sign of the Cross over the whole congregation, or on the forehead of a person being baptized, I'm not 100% sure that the Anglican and Lutheran "laity" (миряне?) have the custom of making the Sign of the Cross on themselves.

    Т.е., у англиканов и лютеранов, попы крестят людей, НО (насколько я знаю) людей не крестятся. А у католиков, и попы крестят людей, и все люди привычно крестятся.

    I was raised Catholic, so I could be wrong about whether Anglicans and Lutherans "cross themselves." But I promise you that the vast majority of Protestants -- and especially the American "Evangelicals" -- do not make this gesture at all.
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