On the life path, a person cannot avoid mistakes and falls. As the apostle said Paul: "Good I want to do, but evil that I do not want to do a poor man." Some people come to God in the youth, others are aware of the love of the Lord in more mature years, but every Christian, at one or another moment of life, freely or involuntarily violates the commandments of God, and makes sin.
About confession
Confession (repentance) is one of the main and important sacraments of the Orthodox Church. In repentance of a man's soul is updated, spiritually cleans. In the Orthodox sense, sin is a disease of the soul, and repentance (confession) is understood as healing. The spiritual practice is considered a temple, and the doctor himself is the Lord who acts through the priest.
- The Personal Christian must be the baptized fellow of the Orthodox faith, consciously came to God for the forgiveness and releasing his sins.
- To repent God - this is the desire of a person to change the image of his life, acts, thoughts in harmony with the commandments of God. The day before, before going to the confession, it is necessary to sit down and concentrately remember and realize their sins, sorry with all my heart about your misdeed. The understanding of his sins is the most strict and picky self-esteem and self-criticism.
- Forgative sacrament of confession takes place in every Orthodox church, as a rule, in the evening reading at all night or in the morning after the start of the liturgy.
- When preparing for repentance in the church charter, it is not stated on the observance of a special post and a special word when contacting. The Lord asks only the true religious and heartless regret.
Preparation for confession
So, come to the confession means a critical look to look at your life path, look into the depths of the soul and rethinking the affairs and thoughts, following God's commandments. With a strong excitement, you can record your forelegations on a small leaflet, so as not to miss one or another misconduct during a conversation with God. A repentant must confess the general consciousness of the wickedness, calling particularly inherent weaknesses and passions. For example - lie, fornication, angiveness, pseudolubia. If a Christian has a special guilt, such as abortion, murder, violence - sin is pronounced fully outlined in a brief thing.
How to confess to tell about the innermost
Sometimes even the most courageous and brave Christians are afraid to go to confession, thinking that the priest will condemn and shame them for the acts perfect. In this case, it is necessary to eradicate the fear completely, and it is understood that the most important holy duty of the Batyushki - in no way to disregard the content of confession. It should be remembered that we are confirmed by the Lord, and not a clergyman, he is only a witness that helps us communicate with the Almighty. At the end of the sacrament, the sin of prayer is pronounced (cleansing) sins, the end of it sounds like this: "The priestly asks, let the Lord you are forgiven and AUs are not worthy of hey, his authority, I am allowed for goodbye and allowing your sins and your passions. Amen ", that is, it should be understood that the Lord himself, the sacrament of confession, and not the priest.
How to prepare for confession. Sins against God
Very often you can hear: "I did not kill anyone, I did not betray, did not hear, so why do I ask for forgiveness and repent of God?" If you explore the commandments, all of them 10, the awareness comes that we often violate many of them. The misdemeanors and forelegations are divided into 3 main groups - sins committed against the Lord, against their loved ones and himself.
- Sins committed against God - the creation and reverence of other idols besides him, the swelling or omission of sins on repentance, fortune telling, cards and gambling, thoughts about suicide, the spread of liautses, ignoring the morning and evening prayer, despondency and reduced in difficult life situations, not The coming coming into the temple on Sundays and holidays, references to the name of the Lord in a non-religious direction of communication, versoice and not wearing a native cross.
- Sins committed against near-murder, quick tempering, angiveness, perjury, not reading parents, condemnation of the other, theft, quarrel, abortion, not diligence in the course of work, not paying for others for the work performed, unspokesia of help and child-friendly to difficulties in need, consumption of alcohol Drinks on a memorial dinner, instead of pleading and the past of the mustache, disrespect for the elders, the upbringing of children outside of attachment to the Orthodox faith.
- Sins performed against himself - drunkenness, lie, verbal, fornication (proximity outside of marriage), condemnation, peresya, excessive pride, pride, the fulfillment of good deeds to the show, the desire to encourage, love, the ruthfulness, the heavily.
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