"performing the sign of the cross just once . . . is sufficient for our protection and salvation."

Orthodox Church in America

"if we are attentive [(νήφωμεν)], performing the sign of the cross just once . . . is sufficient for our protection and salvation."

        St. Barsanuphius, Ep. 436, as trans. Inbar Graiver, Asceticism of the mind:  forms of attention and self-transformation in late antique monasticism (Toronto:  PIMS, 2018), 102.  FC 114, trans. John Chryssavgis, 58:  "If we are vigilant, then performing the sign of the cross just once—whether during the night or during the day—is sufficient for our protection and salvation."  =SC 451, 514.  Context:  anxious repetition.