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Hi guys. Just a quick question.
I was wondering if all Mormons pray with their arms folded instead of their hands clasped. The Mormons in my town pray with their arms folded, and it caught me off guard. What's the reason behind that?
Most of the time, in my personal prayers, I pray with my hands clasped. It's not a commandment of some kind to pray with our arms folded, but more of a custom. I don't know that there is a specific reason behind it, but I suspect that it might have something to do with the fact that we teach our children to pray from a very early age, in "Primary," which is the Church's auxilliary for children. Children attend Primary starting at age 3. It's more or less the same thing as Sunday School. When a Primary teacher is trying to teach a class of eight or ten four-year-olds, one thing she needs to to is get the children to sit still and listen to what she has to say. Children are taught to be reverent when they are anywhere in an LDS Church. Most of the time this is accomplished by telling them to fold their arms. With their arms folded, they are less likely to be fidgety and distracted. To a little LDS child, being reverent means being quiet and likely to be sitting with his arms folded. I think this extends to prayer. With arms folded, the child is more likely to concentrate than if he had nothing to do with his hands. Clasping them, it seems to me, would achieve pretty much the same purpose.Hi guys. Just a quick question.
I was wondering if all Mormons pray with their arms folded instead of their hands clasped. The Mormons in my town pray with their arms folded, and it caught me off guard. What's the reason behind that?
Could you double-check that reference, please?I think this tradition is more or less explained in Samuel 18:25-27