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three fingers from your thumb to the middle finger on your right hand repersenting the two natures of christ and the trinity.

then closing these fingers to form a pyramid

then starting at your forehead to your stomach then to the left shoulder then the right.

However because the oriental orthodox church consists of different apostolic churches that were founded by different apostles and have different traditions it may vary.

this is how the coptic orthodox church does it

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