I confess to the Lord God Almighty, in the Holy Trinity, glorified and worshiped by the Father and the Son, and the Holy Spirit in all my sins, the evil I have committed in thought, word, deed, and all my feelings.
I have sinned before the Lord and Savior with my self-love, carnal pleasure, voluptuousness, gluttony, gluttony, laziness, self-pity, pride, conceit, humiliation of others, envy, hostility, hatred, malice, lust, fornication, impurity, self-will, disobedience, disobedience, rudeness, impudence , severity, obstinacy of temper, unbelief, lack of faith, ingratitude, greed, cruelty, stinginess, greed, greed, sneak, deceit, slyness, slander, perjury, swearing, perjury, hypocrisy, captiousness, oppression, abduction, appropriation of someone else's, abuse, indulgence sins, indulgence, vain pastime, idle talk, idle talk, foul language, vanity, luxury, malevolence, malevolence, malevolence, vindictiveness, coldness, negligence, negligence in prayer and good deeds.
Disrespect for old age, disrespect for parents, unfaithfulness, inconstancy in virtue, frivolity, vanity, fearfulness, grumbling, despondency, cowardice, despair, anger, passion for reading empty books, negligence for reading the Holy Gospel and other spiritual books, inventing an excuse for one’s own sins and self-justification instead of condemnation and self-accusation, dishonest performance of official duties, malevolence, negligence, incitement to evil, cursing one's neighbor, swearing, superstition, fortune-telling.
In all these iniquities I have sinned, and with them I have immeasurably offended my All-Holy Lord and Benefactor, of which I admit that I am guilty, I repent and regret.
I grieve bitterly for sins and henceforth, with God's help, I will beware of them.
GENERAL, CONFESSION ON PERSON OF THE PENITENT
Innumerable, Merciful God, are my sins, voluntary and involuntary, open and secret, great and small, committed by word, deed, mind and thought, day and night, and in all hours and minutes of my life until this day and hour.
I have sinned before the Lord God with ingratitude for His great and countless good deeds and His good providence.
I have sinned, Lord, before You by not keeping the vows of Baptism. He sinned with lies and self-will.
He sinned by violating the Lord's Commandments and the traditions of the Holy Fathers.
He sinned with rudeness, impudence, disobedience, self-conceit, severity, timidity, arrogance, humiliation of others, carnal pleasure, obstinacy of temper, disorderly screaming, irritability, beating, quarrels, cursing.
He sinned with slander, negligence, haste, malice, enmity, hatred, incitement, jealousy not according to reason.
He sinned with vengeance, rancor, voluptuousness, hostility, impurity, daydreaming, self-will, self-will, intemperance, drunkenness, whim, gluttony.
He sinned with distraction, jokes, witticisms, laughter, ridicule, insane fun, covetousness, sleeping much, doing nothing, abandoning prayer, service, fasting and good deeds.
He sinned with bewilderment, cooling, stinginess, greed, contempt for the poor and the poor.
He sinned with greed, treachery, negligence, idleness, self-pity, deceit, craftiness, carelessness, disrespect for old age, disobedience to superiors, spiritual father and elder brothers.
He sinned with unbelief, blasphemy, doubt, inconstancy, frivolity, indifference, insensitivity, unbelief, indifference to the Holy Orthodox Faith and the Holy Sacraments, infidelity, inattention to prayer and worship, to fasting and good deeds.
He sinned with immeasurable sorrow, sadness, despondency, conceit, despair, all sorts of nasty, crafty and bad thoughts.
I have sinned by calling on the name of God falsely and in vain.
He sinned with lack of faith, cowardice, hopelessness, scolding, hypocrisy, bribery, partiality, captiousness, oppression, punishment, covetousness, appropriation of someone else's.
I have sinned by abusing the gifts of God, indulgence in sins, idle talk, extravagance, coldness towards God and neighbor, incitement to evil, secret eating, secret drinking.
He sinned with a vain pastime, spreading his false and blasphemous opinions, pronouncing deliberately and thoughtlessly various kinds of curses on people, cattle, animals and birds.
I have sinned by allowing every thought that is unrighteous, impure, filthy and ungodly.
I have sinned by dreaming, ambition, charm, pretense, malice, creeping my tongue into ungodly words, spending time in unsimilar deeds, mockery, temptation, dancing, gambling, laughter.
He sinned by omitting prayer before going to bed and upon rising from sleep. He sinned by forgetting to make the sign of the cross before eating food. He sinned by eating food after sunset, by foul language and idle talk without a twinge of conscience.
I have sinned with jealousy, wrong advice, flattery, lasciviousness, voluptuousness, and pickiness in food.
I sinned by reading romance novels, watching seductive films.
I have sinned by negligence in reading the Gospel, the Psalter and other books of spiritual and religious content.
I have sinned by inventing excuses for my sins and self-justification instead of self-judgment and self-condemnation.
I have sinned by dishonest fulfillment of the assignments and obediences entrusted to me, by bearing false witness against my neighbor.
I have sinned with pride, vanity, arrogance, arrogance, an increased interest in clothing and fashion, a desire for honor, petrification of the heart, crafty thoughts and human pleasing.
I have sinned with various impurity, by the action of the enemy, in a sleepy dream. He sinned with lustful and fornicating deeds by nature and through nature.
Often I sinned by omitting services in God's temple, being late for church services. He sinned by visiting churches of other faiths. He sinned by leaving God's temple before the dismissal of the church. He sinned by omission and non-fulfillment of the prayer rule, an impure confession and the everlasting Body and Blood of the Lord by an unworthy acceptance.
I sinned by giving alms with a cold, crafty heart, bitterness towards the poor. He sinned by not fulfilling the Lord's commandments about visiting the sick, who are in prison.
He sinned by not doing the deeds commanded by the Lord: he did not satisfy the hungry, he did not give drink to the thirsty, he did not clothe the naked, he did not bury the dead.
He sinned by not paying due honor to holidays and Sundays.
He sinned by not praying as he should on the Lord's and Mother of God feasts.
He sinned by forgetting the memory of the holy saints of God and drunkenly celebrating holidays in general.
I have sinned by slandering and condemning the highest in position, by age, by slandering friends, benefactors, by not maintaining fidelity and love.
I have sinned by going to the church of God without a humble disposition of heart; sinned by impious standing in the temple: walking, sitting, reclining and untimely presence from it, idle conversations during worship.
I remembered in vain the name of the Lord my God, even, it happened, I swore by His holy, terrible name; often lied and boldly and shamelessly reproached my neighbor. I often hesitated to get out of a state of anger and insulted, irritated my neighbor. He was magnified by good deeds, which he did not have at all. He often resorted to cunning, flattery and was two-faced and crafty in relations with people.
Every day I sinned with impatience, cowardice, many times ridiculed the sin of my neighbor, saddening him secretly and openly, gloated over his deeds and misfortune, many times carried enmity, malice, hatred and envy in my heart.
He sinned with insane laughter, witticisms, obscene jokes, disorderly noisy conversation; often spoke thoughtlessly.
He created fornication in a dream vision, was stung by the beauty of the human body, nourished the imagination and heart with voluptuous feelings. He sinned with a passionate look at beautiful faces.
He sinned with my tongue, uttering atrocities, blasphemy, vulgarity about objects of voluptuousness, fornicated, inflamed with passionate kisses and did inappropriate things.
He sinned with voluptuousness and gluttony, enjoyed delicacies, desired variety in food, enjoyed drinks and wines. Hastily yielded to his desires and fulfilled his whims.
He often did not spare money in order to please the requirements and decency of the world, and spared a penny for the poor.
Often mercilessly condemned and reproved others, despised poverty and abhorred it. He sinned with a hostile attitude towards a person because of his face, appearance. He was greedy and greedy. He often went to God's temple in uncleanness and in this form venerated holy things, took holy prosphora and drank holy water, stood reverently in the temple, tempting others with this.
In home prayer, he was cold, absent-minded, often prayed briefly and hastily, without zeal and reverence, did not overcome his laziness, indulged in bliss and inactivity, spent time in idle pursuits and pleasures, cheerful conversations, games. He spent precious time on chatter, gossip, gossip, censure of his neighbor. He sinned with despondency, despair in his salvation and the mercy of God.
He uttered blasphemous words, sang shameless, reckless songs, resorted to divination and divination, not realizing the severity of this sin. He sinned with ignorance, petrification of the heart. Often he sinned willingly, in full understanding and consciousness, of his own free will, and deliberately inclined others to sin, violating all the covenants and commandments of God.
I have sinned with all my feelings, willingly and unwillingly, knowledge and ignorance, by myself and through others I have been tempted in all these and other iniquities.
I consider myself guilty before the face of God more than all people, therefore I humbly pray to you, honest father, on the Day of Judgment be my witness. I truly regret these falls and have the will to continue, as far as possible, hoping for God's mercy and help, to guard myself from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit.
Forgive me, honest father, forgive me from all my sins and iniquities and pray for me, a sinful and unworthy slave (you can ask for penance).
GENERAL CONFESSION,
COMPILED ON THE WORKS OF EP. JUSTINA
I confess to the Lord God the Almighty, in the Holy Trinity, glorified and worshiped by the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit ... in all my sins.
I confess that I have sinned against all the commandments of God.
I have sinned: lack of faith and unbelief, doubt in faith; superstition and arrogance, negligence in one's own salvation, forgetfulness of God's justice and lack of devotion to the will of God; a stubborn desire to have everything my way; impatience and murmuring.
I have sinned: self-interest, pride, servility to the spirit of the times and worldly customs; sinned against conscience, hypocrisy.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me!
I have sinned: with blasphemy and blasphemy, with a false oath and breaking an oath, with swearing, contempt and ridicule of pious people, with shame to appear pious and generally a Christian in the circle of worldly people.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me!
I have sinned: by disrespecting church holidays, by standing in church without reverence, by being lazy in prayer, in reading the Word of God and other soulful books; careless image of the sign of the cross; non-observance of fasts according to the charter of the Church; laziness to work and unfair performance of work and deeds according to the position of service; idleness and wasting a lot of time in indecent amusements, feasts. I have sinned, Lord, by concealing my sins at confession.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me!
I have sinned: disrespect for parents and coldness towards relatives, disrespect for those in authority and disrespect for elders, ingratitude towards benefactors; obstinate treatment of subordinates and cruel acts with them.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me!
I have sinned: by killing (moral or physical) myself or another; oppression of the neighbor and deprivation of his means of life, insulting the neighbor with anger, obstinacy in treatment, slander, hatred, harm to the neighbor, enmity, rancor, temptation to sin, stubborn resistance to the truth, bitterness.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me!
I have sinned with carnal sins: fornication, adultery, voluptuousness in all its forms: passionate kisses, impure touch, looking at beautiful faces with lust, foul language, shameless body movements, pandering, arbitrary lustful kindling, excess in carnal pleasures, intemperance in fasting, on Sundays. and holidays, satiety in food and drink, reading soul-corrupting books and looking at seductive pictures.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me!
I have sinned: by theft, embezzlement of other people's property, deceit, false testimony, selling bad goods instead of good, measuring, calculating, concealing the found thing, hiding the thief and theft, arson, parasitism, covetousness, sacrilege, lack of mercy to the poor, failure to give mercy or help to those in need , stinginess, luxury, drunkenness, greed, infidelity, injustice, hardness of heart.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me!
I have sinned: false denunciation, false testimony, slander, denigration of the good name and honor of my neighbor, disclosure of the sins and weaknesses of my neighbor, suspicion, doubt in the honor of my neighbor, reinterpretation of his words and actions for the worse, condemnation, gossip, duplicity, gossip, ridicule, obscene jokes, lies, slyness, deceit, hypocrisy, hypocritical treatment of others, laziness, talkativeness, idle talk.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me!
I have sinned: with bad desires and thoughts, envy, lust for power and pride, self-interest and carnal pleasure. I have sinned, Lord, by sight, by hearing; With impure desires and criminal deeds, I remove myself from Your presence. But I recognize myself as guilty before You, Lord, and I confess all my sins, which I have committed by will and not by will, by knowledge and ignorance, by words, deeds and thoughts. I am guilty, unanswerable before the Lord my God; I repent of all the sins of my soul and body, with which I angered my God and the Creator, unjustified my neighbor and denigrated myself. I sincerely repent of everything and will make efforts to ensure that I do not sin like that again. But as weak and powerless in itself for pleasing and holy deeds, with tears I pray to You, Lord God, my Savior: help me to be affirmed in my intention to live the rest of my life godly and holy, and forgive my past sins by Your mercy and resolve from all my sins, like a good and philanthropist!
CONFESSION WRITTEN IN THE OPTINA PUSTINA
I confess to the Lord God Almighty, in the Holy Trinity, glorified and worshiped by the Father and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, about all my sins:
I confess that I was conceived in sins, born in sins, brought up in sins and from the very baptism until now living in sins.
I confess that I have sinned against all the commandments of God with little faith and unbelief, doubt and free opinion, superstition, divination, arrogance, negligence, despair in my salvation, hope in myself and people more than in God.
Forgetting about the justice of God and lack of sufficient devotion to the will of God.
Disobedience to the orders of God's Providence.
A stubborn desire for everything to be "my way."
Human pleasing and partial love for the creature.
Not trying to reveal in yourself the full knowledge of God and His will, faith in Him, reverence for Him, fear of Him, hope in Him, love for Him and zeal for His glory.
He sinned: by enslaving himself to passions: voluptuousness, greed, pride, self-love, vanity, servility to the spirit of the times, worldly customs against conscience, in violation of the commandments of God, covetousness, gluttony, delicacy, overeating, drunkenness.
I have sinned: by blasphemy, by a false oath, by breaking an oath, by not fulfilling vows, by forcing others to worship, by swearing, by disrespect for sacred things and piety, by blasphemy against God, against saints, against every holy thing, by blasphemy, blasphemy, calling on the name of God in vain, in bad deeds, desires, jokes and fun.
I have sinned: by disrespecting the holidays and doing things that degrade the honor of the holidays, by standing in church without reverence, by talking and laughing, by being lazy in prayer and reading the Holy Scriptures, by abandoning morning and evening prayers, by concealing sins at confession, by not diligently about proper preparation for communion of the Holy Mysteries, disrespect for sacred objects and careless depiction of the sign of the cross. Non-observance of posts according to the charter of the Church, laziness to work and unscrupulous performance of assigned work and deeds on duty, wasting a lot of time in vain in idleness, absent-mindedness.
I have sinned: not by honoring parents and superiors, by disrespect for elders, spiritual shepherds and teachers.
He sinned: in vain anger, insulting neighbors, hatred, harming neighbors, enmity, rancor, temptation, advice to sin, arson, not saving a person from death, poisoning, killing (children in the womb) - advice to this.
Sinned: sins of the flesh - fornication, adultery, voluptuousness, passionate kisses, impure touch, looking at beautiful faces with lust.
He sinned: foul language, indulgence in impure dreams, arbitrary lustful irritation, intemperance on fasts, Sundays and holidays, incest in spiritual and carnal kinship, excessive panache with a desire to please and seduce others.
Sinned: by theft, embezzlement of someone else's property, deceit, concealment of a found thing, acceptance of someone else's thing, failure to pay a debt for false reasons, obstruction in the benefits of others, parasitism, covetousness, sacrilege, lack of compassion for the unfortunate, unmercifulness towards the poor, stinginess, extravagance, luxury, game in cards, in general, a disorderly life, greed, infidelity, injustice, hardness of heart.
He sinned: by false denunciation and testimony at the trial, slander and denigration of the good name of his neighbor and his honor, disclosure of their sins and weaknesses. Suspicion, doubt in the honor of one's neighbor, condemnation, duplicity, gossip, ridicule, witticisms, lies, cunning, deceit, hypocritical treatment of others, flattery, groveling before the highest in office and having advantages and power; talkativeness and idle talk.
I do not have: straightforwardness, sincerity, simplicity, fidelity, truthfulness, respectfulness, degree, caution in words, prudent silence, guarding and defending the honor of others.
He sinned: with bad desires and thoughts, envy, internal adultery, selfish and proud thoughts and desires, self-interest and carnal pleasure.
I do not have: love, abstinence, chastity, modesty in words and deeds, purity of heart, selflessness, non-acquisitiveness, generosity, mercy, humility, I do not diligently care about eradicating a sinful disposition in myself and asserting myself in virtues.
I sinned: despondency, sadness, sight, hearing, taste, smell, touch, unclean lust and all my feelings, thoughts, words, desires, deeds and in my other sins, which I did not mention because of my unconsciousness.
I repent that I have angered the Lord my God, I sincerely regret this and wish to repent and continue not to sin and refrain from sins in every possible way.
With tears, I beg You, Lord my God, help me to establish myself in my intention to live like a Christian, and forgive my confessed sins, as Good and Humanitarian.
I also ask you, honest father, in whose presence I confessed all this, that you be my witness on the day of judgment against the devil, the enemy and hater of the human race, and that you pray for me, a sinner, to the Lord my God.
I ask you, honest father, as having the power from Christ God to allow those who confess and forgive their sins, forgive me, allow me and pray for me a sinner.
SINS AGAINST THE LORD GOD
Proud; did not fulfill the holy will of God, violated the Commandments; sinned by unbelief and lack of faith, doubt in faith; had no hope for God's mercy, despaired; continuing to sin, excessively hoped for the mercy of the Lord; hypocritically worshiped God; had no love and fear of God; did not thank the Lord for all His blessings, for sorrows, illnesses; turned to psychics, astrologers, fortune-tellers, soothsayers; was engaged in black and white magic, witchcraft, divination, spiritualism; sinned with superstition: he believed in dreams, omens, wore talismans; blasphemed and murmured against the Lord in soul and in words; did not fulfill the vows given to God; called on the name of God in vain (without reverence, in inappropriate conversations), falsely swore by the name of the Lord; ate the blood of animals;
Without proper reverence (blasphemously) treated icons, relics, candles, saints, Holy Scripture, etc.; read heretical books and kept them at home, watched heretical TV shows; was ashamed to be baptized and profess the Orthodox faith; did not wear a cross; casually baptized;
Did not fulfill or poorly fulfilled the prayer rule: morning and evening prayers, other prayers, bows, etc., did not read the Holy Scriptures, spiritual literature;
Missed Sunday and holiday services without a valid reason; walked the temple without zeal and diligence; he was lazy to pray, he prayed absent-mindedly and coldly; talked, dozed, laughed, walked around the temple during the church service; inattentively, distractedly listened to readings and chants, was late for the service and left the church before the leave;
She went to church in uncleanliness, touched icons and candles in uncleanliness;
Rarely confessed sins, deliberately concealed them; :
Communion without contrition and fear of God, without proper preparation (3 days of fasting, reading canons and akathists, prayers for Holy Communion), without reconciling with others;
Did not refrain from conjugal cohabitation before communion; communed without repentance after fornication;
He did not obey his spiritual father, condemned the clergy, monastics, grumbled and took offense at them, was jealous;
He did not honor the feasts of God, he worked on holidays;
He violated fasts, did not observe fasting days - Wednesday and Friday;
He listened to Western preachers, sectarians, was fond of Eastern religions; accepted heretical baptism;
Thought about suicide and tried to kill myself
SINS AGAINST NEIGHBORS
He had no love for his neighbors, did not love enemies, hated them, wished them harm;
He did not know how to forgive, he repaid evil for evil;
Not respectful to elders and superiors (bosses), to parents; upset and offended parents;
Did not fulfill the promise;
Did not pay debts; explicitly or secretly appropriated someone else's property;
Beaten, attempted on someone else's life;
She poisoned, killed babies in the womb (abortions, pills, spirals ...), advised others to do them;
Robbed, engaged in extortion, set on fire;
He refused to stand up for the weak and innocent, to help the drowning, freezing, burning, in trouble;
Sinned by laziness in work;
Did not respect other people's work;
Poorly raised children: outside the Christian faith, cursed children; sinned unmercifully: despised and condemned the poor; he sinned with avarice, did not give alms;
He did not visit the sick in hospitals and at home; sinned with hardness of heart; was cruel to animals, birds, in vain killed cattle, birds, destroying trees; he argued, did not yield to his neighbors, argued; slandered, condemned, slandered, gossiped, recounted other people's sins; offended, insulted, enmity with neighbors; scandalized, arranged hysterics, cursed, impudently, behaved arrogantly and freely towards his neighbor;
He was a hypocrite, spoke taunts; angry; irritated, suspected neighbors of unseemly deeds; deceived, gave false evidence;
Behaved seductively, wanting to seduce; jealous;
idle talk; told indecent jokes;
He did not pray for mentors, relatives, enemies;
He corrupted his neighbors (adults and minors) with his actions; sinned by selfish friendship and treason.
SINS AGAINST YOURSELF
He was proud, conceited, considered himself the best; proud;
He wished harm to his neighbor, vengeful; sinned by lack of humility and obedience, self-confidence; lied; envied;
Idle talk, swear; irritated, indignant, remembered evil; shrew; offended, upset; despondent, longing, sad; did good deeds for show; stingy; lazy;
Spent time in idleness, slept a lot and ate (gluttony, secret eating, delicacy); he forgot about Christian humility, virtues, about death and hell, he lived carelessly and negligently, did not correct himself; loved the earthly, the material more than the heavenly, the spiritual; addicted to money, things, luxury, pleasures; overly attentive to the flesh; strove for earthly honors and glory;
Smoked, used drugs, alcohol (drank drunk); played cards, gambling;
Adorned himself to seduce; engaged in pandering, prostitution; sang obscene songs, told jokes, cursed, laughed, danced; watched pornographic films, read pornographic books, magazines; accepted fornication thoughts, defiled himself in a dream; sinned fornication (outside church marriage) (name, quantity); sinned by adultery (changed during a married marriage); allowed liberties to the crown and perversion in marriage; sinned by masturbation, avoided conception by eruption of the seed (the sin of Onan), allowed fornication perversions in marriage; sodomy (fornication of a man with a man), lesbianism (fornication of a woman with a woman), bestiality (fornication with cattle);
Despondency, sadness, sight, hearing, taste, smell, touch, lust, impurity and all my feelings, thoughts, words, desires, deeds (you need to name the sins that were not listed and burden the soul), and in other sins.
MANUAL FOR GENERAL CONFESSION
(compiled according to the instructions of Archpriest A. Vetelev)
Our repentance must be sincere and sincere; must come from the depths of the soul, fully conscious of its guilt before God.
Examples: David and the prophet Nathan (50th psalm of David). Ap. Peter and Judas.
Brothers and sisters! Confession is God's judgment upon us. This judgment is the more merciful for us, the deeper and sincerely we repent..., experience...
The Lord says to each of us: "I, I Myself blot out your transgressions for My own sake... Remember... you speak, that you may be justified" (Isaiah 43:25-26).
You may ask, how can one speak, name sins, when we now have not a private, but a general confession? Yes, we have a common confession. But it is also necessary to transform a general confession into a private one, as it were. To do this, each confessor, listening to the listed common sins, should recognize his own among them and, naming them, repent of each of them. For example, a spiritual father speaks of the sin of judging others. The confessor, imbued with the consciousness of his personal sin, says: “I also condemned ... - forgive me, Lord!” In addition, after a general confession, approaching the permissive prayer, the confessor can name those special, personal sins that torment his conscience.
As we begin confession, let us pray: “Lord! Open my soul to repentance and accept my confession.” “Lord, I have sinned against heaven and before You!...
- (see Prayers before confession in the temple).
We confess, many-sinners (name your names), to the Lord God Almighty, in the Holy Trinity, glorified and worshiped by the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, all our sins, voluntary and involuntary, in word, or deed, or thought.
We sinned: by not keeping our vows given by us at baptism, but in everything we lied and transgressed and made ourselves indecent before the face of God.
They sinned: lack of faith, unbelief, doubt, wavering in faith, planted from the enemy against God and the holy Church, self-conceit and free opinion, superstition, divination, arrogance, negligence, despair in one’s salvation, hope in oneself and in people more than in God.
They sinned: by forgetting about the justice of God, by lack of sufficient devotion to the will of God; disobedience to the actions of God's providence, a stubborn desire for everything to be my way, pleasing to people and partial love for creatures and things; not trying to reveal in oneself the full knowledge of His will, faith in Him, good will towards Him, fear of Him, hope in Him and zeal for His glory.
They sinned: ingratitude to the Lord God for all His great and unceasing blessings, poured out in abundance on each of us and on the whole human race, and forgetting about them, grumbling at God, cowardice, despondency, hardening of one’s heart, lack of love for Him below fear and failure to fulfill His holy will.
They sinned: by enslaving themselves to passions: voluptuousness, greed, pride, pride, vanity, ambition, covetousness, gluttony, delicacy, secret eating, overeating, drunkenness, addiction to games, spectacles and amusements.
They have sinned: by swearing, by not fulfilling vows, by forcing others to swear and swear, by imperviousness to holy things, by blasphemy against God, against saints, against every holy thing, by blasphemy, invoking the name of God in vain, in bad deeds, desires.
They have sinned: by not honoring the feasts of God, by not going to the temple of God out of laziness and carelessness, by standing in the temple of God without reverence, by talking, laughing, by not paying attention to reading and singing, by distraction of the mind, by wandering thoughts, by walking around the temple during divine services, by premature exits from the temple, in uncleanness they came to the temple and touched its shrines.
They sinned: negligence in prayer, abandoning morning and evening prayers, neglecting attention during prayer, abandoning the reading of the Holy Gospel, the Psalter and other Divine books.
They sinned: by concealing sins at confession, by self-justifying them and diminishing their severity, by repentance without contrition of heart and by not diligently about proper preparation for communion of the Holy Mysteries of Christ, without reconciling with their neighbors, they came to confession and in such a sinful state dared to come to communion.
They sinned: by breaking fasts and not keeping fasting days - Wednesdays and Fridays, by intemperance in food and drink, by a careless and irreverent image of the sign of the cross.
They sinned: disobedience, arrogance, self-righteousness, self-will, self-justification, laziness to work and unscrupulous performance of assigned work and deeds on duty.
They sinned: by disrespecting their parents and their elders in age, by impudence, self-righteousness and disobedience.
Sinned: lack of love for one's neighbor, impatience, resentment, irritability, anger, causing harm to one's neighbor, obstinacy, enmity, evil for evil retribution, unforgiveness of offenses, rancor, jealousy, envy, malevolence, vindictiveness, condemnation, slander, covetousness, lack of compassion for the unfortunate , unmercifulness to the poor, stinginess, extravagance, greed, infidelity, injustice, hardness of heart.
They sinned: by deceit against their neighbors, by deceiving them, by insincerity in dealing with them, by suspiciousness, double-mindedness, gossip, ridicule, witticisms, lies, hypocritical treatment of others, and flattery.
They sinned: forgetting about the future eternal life, not remembering their death and the Last Judgment, and an unreasonable partial attachment to earthly life and its pleasures.
They sinned: intemperance of their tongue, idle talk, idle talk, laughter, disclosure of the sins and weaknesses of their neighbor, seductive behavior, liberty, insolence.
They sinned: intemperance of their spiritual and bodily feelings, addiction, voluptuousness, indiscreet look at persons of the opposite sex, free treatment of them, fornication and adultery and excessive panache with a desire to please and seduce others.
They sinned: lack of straightforwardness, sincerity, simplicity, fidelity, truthfulness, respectfulness, degree, caution in words, prudent silence, guarding and defending the honor of others, lack of love, temperance, chastity, modesty in words and deeds, purity of heart, non-possessiveness, mercy and humility.
We sinned: despondency, sadness, sight, hearing, taste, smell, touch, lust, impurity and all our feelings, thoughts, words, desires, deeds and our other sins, which we did not remember because of our forgetfulness.
We repent that we have angered the Lord our God with all our sins, we sincerely regret this and wish to refrain from our sins in every possible way.
Lord our God, with tears we pray to You, our Savior, help us to establish ourselves in the holy intention to live as a Christian, and forgive the sins we have confessed, as Good and Humanitarian.
The grave sins not listed here must be confessed to the confessor in a special way.
The first commandment of the law of God commands:
They sinned: lack of faith, unbelief, doubt, despair in their salvation, hope in themselves and people more than in God (excessive hope in God's mercy), forgetfulness of God's justice, i.e. impenitence.
Disobedience to the will of God, disobedience to the orders of God's Providence. A stubborn desire for everything to be "my way."
Impatience and murmuring when something is done not according to my desire.
Human pleasing and passionate love for people, creatures, things, occupations.
Unwillingness and negligence to reveal in oneself the memory of God and His will, faith and reverence for Him and fear of Him, hope in Him and devotion to His will, and obedience to Him, love for Him, striving for Him with all one’s being and zeal for glory His. Apostasy. Not having love for God.
2. “DO NOT MAKE YOUR IDOLS”, i.e. fictional god - an idol.
Sinned: Pride, vanity, self-love, voluptuousness, greed, hypocrisy, gluttony, overeating, voluptuousness, servility to the spirit of the times and worldly customs, against conscience with violation of the commandments of God, drunkenness, secret eating.
3. "DO NOT SAY THE NAME OF THE LORD YOUR GOD IN VAIN."
They sinned: blasphemy, blasphemy, swearing, swearing, breaking an oath, cursed themselves and others. Violation of vows, disrespect for goodness and pious people. Contempt, mockery of them. Shame to seem like a devout Christian, idle talk, they uttered the name of God in proverbs. “The Lord will not leave without punishment the one who takes His name in vain” (Ex. 20:7).
They sinned: By disrespecting the holidays, not attending the temple out of laziness. Laziness to prayer and reading the Word of God and holy books.
Irreverent standing in church and inattention to reading and singing, wandering thoughts, talking and laughter in church.
Abandoning morning, evening and other prayers.
Concealment of sins at confession and neglect of proper preparation for communion of the Holy Mysteries.
Disrespect for sacred places, careless depiction of the sign of the cross.
Non-observance of posts according to the charter of the church.
Laziness to work and unfair performance of assigned work and deeds by position. Loss of a lot of time in vain in idleness, absent-mindedness, fun, feasts.
Visiting parties, theater, cinema for great holidays.
5. HONOR YOUR FATHER AND YOUR MOTHER, THAT YOUR DAYS ON THE EARTH LONG.
Sinned: By disrespecting parents and relatives. Disrespect for elders. Ingratitude to benefactors.
Carelessness about the upbringing of children, indulgence or obstinate treatment of them, neglect of their well-being and cruel deeds with them.
6. "Thou shalt not kill."
Sinned: Moral or physical murder of oneself or another.
Oppression and deprivation of the means of life of one's neighbor.
Non-giving help to save the life of a neighbor from premature death.
Anger, insult, slander, hatred, wrecking, enmity, rancor. Tempted to sin. Inactivity, satiety, stubborn resistance to the truth. Bitterness in sins.
Revenge for evil. Complete impenitence. Animals were tortured and killed.
Not accustoming oneself not only not to offend anyone, but also to treat everyone meekly, politely, friendly, edifying, reconcile with the angry, endure and forgive insults. Benefit everyone, even enemies.
7. "DO NOT ADULTY"
They sinned: By foul language, reading immoral books, looking at pictures and actions, lust, pimping, coquetry, fornication, adultery (this kind of sins speak to confessors separately and only in private).
8. "DO NOT STEAL"
Sinned: Theft, deceit, parasitism, covetousness, unmercifulness to the poor, avarice, drunkenness, wastefulness, playing cards and other games of chance, luxury, dishonesty, injustice, hardheartedness, greed, greed.
9. "DO NOT BRING A FALSE WITNESS AGAINST YOUR NEIGHBOR."
Sinned: False testimony, slander, disclosure of the sins of others, suspicion, condemnation and praise, gossip, doubt in the honor of others, duplicity, gossip, ridicule, obscene jokes, lies, slyness, flattery, dishonesty, insincerity.
10. "DO NOT DESIRE YOUR NEIGHBOR'S WIFE ... NOTHING THAT YOUR NEIGHBOR HAS"
Sinned: Bad desires, thoughts, envy.
Let's check our lives according to the commandments of the Beatitudes.
They did not have poverty of spirit and humility.
They did not have the consciousness of their sinfulness, contrition and weeping for their sins.
They did not live according to the truth of God and did not seek it.
They were not merciful.
They were not pure in heart.
BRIEF CONFESSION
From the penitent is required: the consciousness of their sins. Condemnation of oneself in them. Crush and tears. Self-denunciation before the confessor. Repentance is not only in word, but also in deed, i.e. correction - new life. Faith in the forgiveness of sins. Hatred of past sins.
I confess I am a sinner (name) to the Lord God and our Savior Jesus Christ and to you, honest father, all my sins and all my evil deeds, even when I have done all the days of my stomach and even thought even to this day.
He sinned: He did not keep the vows of Holy Baptism, he did not keep his monastic (or his) promise, but he lied in everything and made himself indecent before the Face of God.
Forgive us, Merciful Lord (for general confession). Forgive me, honest father (for private confession).
I have sinned: before the Lord with lack of faith and slowness in thoughts, from the enemy planted against faith and the Holy Church; ingratitude for all His great and unceasing good deeds, invoking the name of God without need - in vain.
Forgive me, honest father.
Sinned: lack of love for the Lord, lower than fear; non-fulfillment of His holy will and holy commandments, careless depiction of the sign of the cross, irreverent veneration of St. icons; did not wear a cross, was ashamed to be baptized and confess the Lord.
Forgive me, honest father.
He sinned: he did not keep love for his neighbor, he did not feed the hungry and thirsty, he did not clothe the naked, he did not visit the sick and prisoners in dungeons; From laziness and neglect, I did not learn the Law of God and the Holy Fathers traditions.
Forgive me, honest father.
I have sinned: church and private rules by non-fulfillment, going to the temple of God without zeal, with laziness and neglect; leaving morning, evening and other prayers; during the celebration of divine services, he sinned with idle talk, laughter, drowsiness, inattention to reading and singing, distraction of the mind, leaving the temple during the service and not going to the temple of God due to laziness and negligence.
Forgive me, honest father.
He sinned: boldness in impurity (mental and bodily) to enter the temple of God and touch the shrines.
Forgive me, honest father.
He sinned: by disrespecting the feasts of God; violation of St. fasting and non-keeping of fasting days - Wednesdays and Fridays; intemperance in food and drink, polyphagy, secret eating, poly-eating, drunkenness, dissatisfaction with food and drink, clothing, parasitism (tune - for free, illegal; poison - eating; parasitism - there is bread for nothing); own will and mind by fulfillment, self-righteousness, self-will and self-justification; improper veneration of parents, neglect of children in the Orthodox faith, cursing their children and their neighbors.
Forgive me, honest father.
He sinned: unbelief, superstition, doubt, despair, despondency, blasphemy, false worship, dancing, smoking, playing cards, divination, witchcraft, sorcery, gossip, commemorated the living for repose, ate the blood of animals (VI Ecumenical Council, rule 67. Acts St. Apostles, ch. 15.).
Forgive me, honest father.
Sinned: pride, conceit, arrogance, vanity, ambition, envy, arrogance, suspicion, irritability.
Forgive me, honest father.
He sinned: condemnation of all people - living and dead, slander and anger, remembrance of malice, hatred, evil for evil by retribution, slander, reproach, deceit, laziness, deceit, hypocrisy, gossip, disputes, stubbornness, unwillingness to yield and serve one's neighbor; he sinned with malevolence, malevolence, mourning, insult, mockery, reproach and pleasing to people.
Forgive me, honest father.
Sinned: intemperance of spiritual and bodily feelings; impurity of soul and body, pleasure and slowness in impure thoughts, addiction, voluptuousness, an immodest look at wives and young men; in a dream, prodigal desecration of the night, intemperance in married life.
Forgive me, honest father.
I have sinned: impatience with sickness and sorrow, love for the comforts of this life, captivity of the mind and petrification of the heart, not forcing myself to do any good deed.
Forgive me, honest father.
He sinned: by inattention to the promptings of his conscience, negligence, laziness in reading the Word of God and negligence in acquiring the Jesus Prayer. He sinned with covetousness, love of money, unrighteous acquisition, theft, theft, stinginess, attachment to all sorts of things and people.
Forgive me, honest father.
He sinned: by condemning and disobeying the spiritual fathers, grumbling and resentment against them and not confessing his sins before them out of forgetfulness, negligence and out of false shame.
Forgive me, honest father.
Sinned: unmercifulness, contempt and condemnation of the poor; going to the temple of God without fear and reverence, deviating into heresy and sectarian teaching.
Forgive me, honest father.
I have sinned: by laziness, relaxation with it, love of bodily peace, many sleeps, voluptuous dreams, partial views, shameless body movements, touching, fornication, adultery, corruption, masturbation, unmarried marriages, those who have aborted themselves or others, or persuaded someone, have sinned grievously to this great sin - infanticide. He spent his time in empty and idle pursuits, in empty talk, jokes, laughter and other shameful sins.
Forgive me, honest father.
He sinned: despondency, cowardice, impatience, murmuring, despair in salvation, lack of hope in God's mercy, insensitivity, ignorance, arrogance, shamelessness.
Forgive me, honest father.
I have sinned: by slandering my neighbor, by anger, insult, irritation and ridicule, non-reconciliation, enmity and hatred, contradiction,
peeping into other people's sins and eavesdropping on other people's conversations.
Forgive me, honest father.
He sinned: by coldness and insensitivity at confession, by diminishing sins, by blaming others, and not by condemning himself.
Forgive me, honest father..
He sinned: against the Life-Giving and Holy Mysteries of Christ, approaching them without proper preparation, without contrition and fear of God.
Forgive me, honest father.
I have sinned: in word, thought and all my senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch, willingly or not, knowledge or ignorance, in reason and foolishness, and do not list all my sins according to their multitude. But in all these, as well as in indescribable oblivion, I repent and regret, and henceforth, with the help of God, I promise to be observed.
But you, honest father, forgive me and forgive me from all these and pray for me a sinner, and on that judgment day testify before God about the sins I have confessed. Amen.
There are people who recognize themselves as Orthodox, who do not fall into grave mortal sins, who, however, take communion only three or four times a year and do not feel the need for more. I do not think that they should be forced or even persuaded to take communion more often. Although, as far as possible, I try to explain to all Christians the meaning and salvation of the Sacrament of the Body and Blood.
If an Orthodox person takes communion on all Sundays and holidays, this is natural for a Christian. If for some reason it does not work out, let it be as it turns out. Once a month, it seems to me, every person can get out to the temple for communion, but if this is not possible, what can you do. The Lord welcomes the intention. Only it is not necessary to consider communion of the Holy Mysteries of Christ a feat! If so, then it is better not to take communion at all. The Body and Blood of Christ is not our feat, but the grace of God. But if someone wants to take communion several times in a row during the Bright Week, not in the order of achievement, but in simplicity, then what's wrong with that? If a person is not hindered by anything, I usually do not mind. But in order to constantly take communion every day, there must be serious reasons. In and of itself, this has never been a church norm. Here St. Theophan the Recluse in the last years of his life took communion every day. Let everyone look at what really incites him to extraordinarily frequent communion: the grace of God or his own vain fantasies. It is also good to consult with a confessor.
Archpriest Konstantin Ostrovsky
It is necessary to prepare oneself for the Sacrament of Holy Communion by fasting, that is, prayer, fasting, a Christian humble mood and behavior, and confession.
Those who wish to worthily partake of the Holy Mysteries of Christ must at least for a week prayerfully prepare themselves for this: pray more and more fervently at home in the morning and evening and, if possible, attend church services in the morning and evening every day during the week. If work or service interferes with regular attendance at all Divine Services, then one must go as far as circumstances permit, and, in any case, be sure to be at the evening Divine Service on the eve of the day of communion.
For worthy prayerful preparation for Holy Communion, there is a special "Rule for Holy Communion", which is placed in more complete prayer books. It consists of readings the day before from the evening of the canons: to the Sweetest Jesus, the Most Holy Theotokos, the Guardian Angel, the canon and prayers for Holy Communion and prayers for the coming sleep, and morning prayers in the morning.
Fasting is combined with prayer, that is, abstinence from fast food - meat, dairy products, butter, eggs, and in general moderation in food: you need to eat and drink less than usual.
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Those who are preparing for Holy Communion must be imbued with a deep awareness of their sinfulness, their insignificance before God and lewdness; must be reconciled with everyone and protect himself from feelings of anger and irritation, refrain from condemnation and all kinds of obscene thoughts and conversations, refuse to visit places of entertainment and houses that could give rise to falling into sin. He must meditate on the greatness of the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ, spending as much time as possible in solitude, reading the word of God and books of spiritual content.
Those who wish to take communion should, best of all, even the day before, before or after the evening service, confess - bring sincere repentance for their sins before the priest, sincerely opening their soul and not concealing a single sin they have committed. Before confession, it is necessary to reconcile with the offenders, as well as with the offended, humbly asking everyone for forgiveness. Forgiveness is usually carried out in the following form: “Forgive me, a sinner, that I have sinned against you,” to which it is customary to answer: “God will forgive you, forgive me, a sinner, too.” During confession, it is better not to wait for the priest's questions, but to express everything that burdens the soul yourself, without justifying yourself in anything and without shifting the blame onto others. To get rid of false modesty in confessing your sins, you can write them on a piece of paper and give it to the priest during confession.
It is more correct to confess the day before in the evening, so that the morning can be devoted to prayerful preparation for Holy Communion. As a last resort, one can go to confession in the morning as well, but coming to confession when the Divine Liturgy has already begun is utter disrespect for the great sacrament. Those who have not confessed are not allowed to receive Holy Communion, except in cases of mortal danger.
Having confessed, you must make a firm decision not to repeat your sins again. There is a good custom - after confession and before Holy Communion, do not eat or drink. It is definitely forbidden after midnight. Children should also be taught to abstain from food and drink before Holy Communion from an early age.
You must come to the church in advance, before the reading of the Hours. During the Divine Liturgy, before the opening of the royal doors and the removal of the Holy Gifts, shortly after the singing of “Our Father”, one should approach the steps of the altar and wait for the removal of the Holy Gifts at the exclamation: “Come with the fear of God and faith.” The brethren of the monastery are the first to receive communion (and also approach the cross, they are anointed), then the children, after the man and at the end of the woman. Approaching the Chalice, you need to make a bow to the ground in advance, from a distance, and on Sundays and Lord's holidays - bow from the waist, touching the floor with your hand, and fold your arms crosswise on your chest - right over left. In no case should you be baptized before the Holy Chalice, so as not to accidentally push the Holy Chalice, clearly pronounce your full Christian name, open your mouth wide and reverently, with full awareness of the sanctity of the great Mystery, accept the Body and Blood of Christ and immediately swallow it.
Having received the Holy Mysteries, without being baptized, kiss the edge of the Chalice and immediately approach the table with warmth to drink and taste a particle of antidoron.
Until the end of the Divine service, do not leave the church, but be sure to listen to prayers of thanksgiving. On this day - the day of Holy Communion, do not eat too much, do not get drunk on alcoholic beverages, and generally behave reverently and decently, in order to "honestly keep Christ accepted in yourself."
All of the above is also obligatory for children, starting from the age of seven, when children come to confession for the first time.
Holy Communion must not be taken:
those who have enmity against their neighbor,
unbaptized
who does not constantly wear a pectoral cross,
who had not been at the evening service the day before and who had not gone to confession,
eaten in the morning
late for the Divine Liturgy,
not fasting
who have not read the Rules for Holy Communion,
women who have an unsuitable state of health and appearance for the church, namely: during the period of monthly cleansing, with an uncovered head, in trousers, with cosmetics on their faces and especially painted lips.
The basis for the prohibition in communion for a longer or shorter period can only be a serious sin (fornication, murder, theft, witchcraft, denial of Christ, obvious heresy, sins of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit:
Despair is a feeling that denies paternal goodness in God and leads to suicide.
Perseverance in unbelief, denial of any evidence of the existence of God, even obvious miracles.
Excessive hope in God, or stagnation in a sinful life in one hope for God's mercy.
sins crying out to heaven for vengeance for them:
Intentional homicide, especially patricide, fratricide, or regicide.
Sodomy sin, artificial sex change (transsexuals).
The oppression of a wretched person, a defenseless widow and young orphans.
Withholding from a poor worker honestly earned wages; deception and robbing a beggar, appropriation of the property of a prisoner or a sick person.
Grieving parents and inflicting grave insults or even beatings on them), or a moral state that is completely incompatible with communion (for example, refusal to reconcile with a repentant offender).
Excommunication from the Eucharist - in Orthodoxy, penance, consisting in excommunication from communion of the Holy Mysteries, was appointed for sins that were obvious and more important. There was such an indication of the rules of the holy fathers regarding the terms of excommunication:
heretics and schismatics - until they renounce their errors,
bloodsuckers - for 12 years,
adulterers - from 9 to 15 years,
killers - up to 25 years,
males - up to 15 years,
cattle breeders - up to 15 years or until the end of life,
perjurers - up to 10 years,
wizards - up to 25 years old,
grave diggers - for 10 years.Penance is a special obedience that a confessing priest offers to perform to a penitent sinner for his spiritual benefit. As a penance, a ban on communion for a certain time, an increase in the daily prayer rule, and additional reading of the psalter, canons, akathists with a certain number of prostrations can be prescribed. Sometimes, as a penance, an increased fast, a pilgrimage to the shrines of the Church, almsgiving, and concrete help to one's neighbor are appointed.
Also non-Orthodox, who visits the parishes of non-canonical, schismatic church associations (Greek Catholic and Roman Catholic churches, the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - the Kiev Patriarchate, etc.) and sects. Such people must repent for having consciously or unconsciously been in schism and thereby neglected the divine teaching about the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, violating the decrees of the Ecumenical Councils.
I confess, sinful (sinful), servant (s) of God (s) (name)
Lord God Almighty, in the Holy Trinity, glorified and worshiped by the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit all my sins are free and involuntary by word, or deed, or thought.
Sinned:
Sins from the enslavement of pride:
arrogance, pride, ambition, hypocrisy and pretense, arrogance in manners, boasting in words, pomp in dress, immoderation of desires, unfriendliness, a spirit of vengeance, contempt for one's neighbor and any sin contrary to love, an excessively high opinion of oneself and neglect of others; arrogance, arrogance, arrogance. Resentment, pride, intransigence, truth-seeking, self-justification, grumbling, consumerism towards God, the Church and people, self-will, selfishness, lack of generosity.
Sins from enslavement by vanity:
they renounced their faith so as not to lose their authority in society; they approved of mortal sins in order to maintain respect for themselves on the part of the atheists; they approached church sacraments for show; they were ashamed to defend the truth (dogmas, canons, commandments, if someone rudely trampled them); they were ashamed to confess their sins; they enjoyed their imaginary spiritual state; ; attributed to their merits the blessings received from God; desired praise from people and sought authority
boasted, embellished speech, exaggerated for greater persuasiveness; acquired knowledge, experience, skill positively assessed their spiritual qualities (complacency);
Sins from enslavement by despondency:
Saint Ignatius (Bryanchaninov) defines the sinful passion of despondency as follows: “laziness in every good deed, especially in prayer... Neglect... Idleness. Excessive comfort with sleep, lying down and all kinds of languor. Moving from place to place... Negligence. Captivity. Deprivation of the fear of God. Bitterness. Insensibility. Despair"
Sins from enslavement by sadness:
St. Ignatius (Bryanchaninov) defines sadness and despondency in this way. Sadness is grief, longing, cutting off hope in God, ungratefulness to God, cowardice, impatience, non-self-reproach, grumbling, sorrow for one's neighbor, renunciation of the cross
Sins from enslavement to anger:
irritability, irascibility, passionate disputes, vindictiveness, hatred, thirst for revenge, unforgiveness of insults, love for word disputes, disputes. Lack of love for one's neighbor, impatience, resentment, irritability, anger, causing harm to one's neighbor, intransigence, enmity, evil for evil retribution, unforgiveness of offenses, rancor, jealousy, envy, malevolence, vindictiveness, slander, condemnation, covetousness, lack of compassion for the unfortunate
Sins from enslavement by love of money:
greed, avarice, extravagance, covetousness, covetousness, covetousness, covetousness, covetousness, filthy profitability, predilection for objects
Sins from enslavement to fornication:
Saint Ignatius Bryanchaninov lists the sins generated by the passion of fornication: “Fornication, fornication, sensations and desires of the body, fornication and desire of the soul and heart (clumping), acceptance of impure thoughts, conversation with them, delight in them, permission to them, slowness in them. Prodigal dreams and captivity. Defilement by torture. Failure to keep the senses, especially the sense of touch, which is an insolence that destroys all virtues. Cursing and reading voluptuous books. Fornication sins are natural: fornication and adultery. Fornication sins unnatural: malakia, sodomy, bestiality and the like "
Sins from enslavement by gluttony:
Saint Ignatius (Bryanchaninov) lists the passions related to gluttony:
Overeating, drunkenness, non-keeping and permission of fasts, secret eating, delicacy, in general, violation of abstinence. Wrong and excessive love of the flesh, its belly and rest, from which self-love is made, from which non-keeping of fidelity to God, the Church, virtue and people.
Sins against the Lord:
Lack of faith, unbelief, doubt, wavering in faith, planted against God and the Holy Church by the enemy, self-conceit, superstition, divination, arrogance, negligence, despair in one’s salvation, forgetfulness of God’s justice and lack of sufficient devotion to the will of God, disobedience to the actions of God’s Providence , carelessness in the knowledge of God, His will, faith in Him, reverence for Him, fear of Him, hope in Him, and zeal for His glory. Ingratitude to the Lord God for all his great blessings, poured out in abundance on me and on the whole human race, and forgetfulness of them, murmuring against God, lack of love for Him, nor fear and failure to fulfill His holy will.
Sins against the Church:
God-worship, non-fulfillment of vows, forcing others to worship and swearing, ignorance of the shrine, blasphemy against God, the saints, every shrine, blasphemy, sacrilege (theft of church things), invoking the name of God in vain, in bad deeds, desires. Ignorance of the feasts of God, non-going to the temple of God due to laziness and negligence, impious standing in the temple of God, talking and laughing, inattention to reading and singing, distraction of the mind, wandering thoughts, walking around the temple during Divine services, premature exits from the temple, in uncleanness came to the temple and touched its shrines. Negligence in prayer, abandoning morning and evening prayers, neglecting attention during prayer, abandoning the reading of the Holy Gospel, the Psalter and other Divine books. Concealment of sins at confession, self-justification in them, repentance without contrition of heart, and carelessness about proper preparation for Communion of the Holy Mysteries of Christ, without reconciling with his neighbors, he came (a) to confession and in such a sinful state dared (-a_ to proceed to Communion. Violation fasts and fast days: Wednesdays and Fridays, intemperance in food and drink, careless and irreverent image of the sign of the cross.
Despondency, sadness, sight, hearing, taste, smell, touch, lust, impurity and all my feelings, thoughts, words, desires, deeds (here it is necessary to name the sins that were not listed and burden the soul), and in my other sins, which I don't remember.
Having named the sins, you need to carefully listen to the answer of the priest, who at the end will read the permissive prayer.
Confession is considered a Christian rite, in which the confessing person repents and repents of his sins in the hope of forgiveness by God Christ. The Savior himself established this sacrament and told the disciples the words that are recorded in the Gospel of Matthew, ch. 18, verse 18. This is also mentioned in the Gospel of John, ch. 20, verses 22-23.
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According to the holy fathers, repentance is also considered a second baptism. Man during baptism cleansed from sin the firstborn, which was transmitted to everyone from the first ancestors of Adam and Eve. And after the rite of baptism, during repentance, personal washing occurs. When a person performs the sacrament of repentance, he must be honest and aware of his sins, sincerely repenting of them, and not repeat the sin, believing in the hope of salvation by Jesus Christ and His mercy. The priest reads a prayer and cleansing from sins takes place.
Many who do not want to repent of their sins often say that they have no sins: “I didn’t kill, I didn’t steal, I didn’t commit adultery, so I have nothing to repent of?” This is stated in the first Epistle of John in the first chapter, verse 17 - "If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us." This means that sinful events happen every day, if you delve into the essence of God's commandments. There are three categories of sin: sin against the Lord God, sin against loved ones, and sin against oneself.
All of the above sins are divided into three categories, in the final analysis, all this is against the Lord God. After all, the transgression of the commandments created by Him is carried out, therefore, there is a direct insult to God. All these sins do not give positive results, but on the contrary, the soul will not be saved from this.
It is necessary to prepare for the sacrament of confession with all seriousness; for this, one should engage in premature preparation. Enough remember and write down on a piece of paper all the sins committed, as well as read detailed information about the sacrament of confession. You should take a piece of paper for the ceremony and read everything again before the process. The same sheet can be given to the confessor, but grave sins must be spoken aloud. It is enough to talk about the sin itself, and not list long stories, for example, if there is enmity in the family, and with neighbors, one should repent for the main sin - condemnation of neighbors and loved ones.
In this rite, the confessor and God are not interested in numerous sins, the meaning itself is important - sincere repentance for the sins committed, the sincere feeling of a person, a contrite heart. Confession is not just an awareness of one's sinful past deeds, but also the desire to wash them off. Justifying oneself in sins is not a cleansing, it is unacceptable. Elder Silouan of Athos said that if a person hates sin, then God asks for these sins.
It will be great if a person from each past day draws conclusions, and each time truly repents of sins, writing them down on paper, and for serious sins, it is necessary to confess to a confessor in the church. You should immediately ask for forgiveness from people who have been offended by word or deed. There is a rule in the Orthodox prayer book - the Penitential Canon, which must be read intensively in the evenings before the sacrament of confession itself.
It is important to find out the schedule of the temple, on what day you can confess. There are many churches in which daily services are held, and the daily sacrament of confession also takes place there. And in the rest learn about the schedule of church services.
Children under the age of seven are considered infants, they can receive communion without prior confession. But it is important to accustom them from childhood to the feeling of incense. Without the necessary preparation, frequent communion causes a reluctance to engage in this work. Desirable in a few days set up children for the sacrament, an example is the reading of the Holy Scriptures and children's Orthodox literature. Reduce TV viewing time. Supervise the fulfillment of morning and evening prayers. If a child has done bad deeds in the past days, then you should talk to him and instill in him a sense of shame for what he has done. But you always need to know: the child takes an example from his parents.
After the age of seven, one can begin confession on an equal footing with adults, but without a preliminary sacrament. The sins listed above are performed in large numbers by children, so children's communion has its own nuances.
To help children sincerely confess, it is necessary to give a list of sins:
This is a superficial list of possible sins. There are many personal sins for each child, based on their thoughts and actions. An important goal of parents is to prepare the child for repentance. Need a child he himself wrote down all his sins without the fate of his parents- You don't have to write for it. He must understand that it is necessary to sincerely confess and repent of bad deeds.
Confession falls on morning and evening time days. Being late for such an event is considered unacceptable. A group of repentant begins to complete the process by reading the rites. When the priest begins to ask the names of the participants who came to confession, one should answer neither loudly nor quietly. Latecomers are not accepted for confession. At the end of the confession, the priest re-reads the rites, accepting the sacrament. Women during the natural monthly cleansing are not allowed to such an event.
It is necessary to behave in the temple with dignity and not interfere with the rest of the confessors and the priest. It is not allowed to embarrass the people who came to this work. There is no need to confess one category of sins and leave another for later. Those sins that were named last time are not reread again. It is desirable to perform the sacrament with the same priest. In the sacrament, a person repents not before the confessor, but before the Lord God.
In large churches, many penitents gather and in this case they use "general confession". The bottom line is that the priest pronounces common sins, and those who confess repent. Further, everyone must come under the permissive prayer. When confession takes place for the first time, you should not come to such a general procedure.
First time visit private confession, if there is none, then at a general confession it is necessary to take the last place in line and listen to what they say to the priest at confession. It is advisable to explain the whole situation to the priest, he will tell you how to confess for the first time. Then comes true repentance. If in the process of repentance a person kept silent about a grave sin, then he will not be forgiven. At the end of the sacrament, a person is obliged, after reading the permissive prayer, to kiss the Gospel and the cross, which lie on the lectern.
On the days of fasting, which last for seven days, fasting is established. Diet should not include fish, dairy, meat and egg products. On such days, sexual intercourse should not be performed. Must go to church frequently. Read the Penitential Canon and observe the rules of prayer. On the eve of the sacrament, you must arrive at the service in the evening. Before going to bed, you should read the canons of the Archangel Michael, our Lord Jesus Christ and the Mother of God. If this is not possible, such prayer rules can be shifted for several days during fasting.
Children have a hard time remembering and perceiving prayer rules, so you should choose the amount that you can afford, but you need to discuss this with the confessor. To prepare gradually 
increase the number of prayer rules. Most people confuse the rules of confession and communion. Here it is necessary to prepare in stages. To do this, you should ask the priest for advice, who will tell you about more accurate preparation.
sacrament of communion carried out on an empty stomach, you should not eat food and water from 12 o'clock, you should also not smoke. This does not apply to children under seven years of age. But they need to be accustomed to this a year before the adult sacrament. Morning prayers should also be read for Holy Communion. During the morning confession, it is necessary to arrive at the right time without delay.
The sacrament was established by the Lord God at the Last Supper, when Christ broke bread with the disciples and drank wine with them. Participle helps to enter the kingdom of heaven and therefore incomprehensible to the human mind. Women are not allowed to go to communion in makeup, and on ordinary Sundays, they should wipe the pop from their lips. On menstrual days, women are not allowed to the Sacrament., as well as those who have recently given birth, for the latter, you need to read the prayer of the fortieth day.
When the priest comes out with the Sacred Gifts, participants are required to bow. Next, you need to carefully listen to the prayers, repeating to yourself. Then you should fold your arms in a cross on your chest and go to the bowl. Children should go first, then men, and then women. Near the cup, one's name is pronounced, and thus, the communicant accepts the Gifts of the Lord. After Communion, the deacon processes his lips with the help of a plate, then you need to kiss the edge of the bowl and go to the table. Here a person takes a drink and uses the prosphora part.
At the end, the participants listen to prayers and pray until the end of the service. Then you should go to the cross and carefully listen to the prayer of thanksgiving. In the end, everyone goes home, but in the church one cannot speak empty words and interfere with each other. On this day, you need to behave with dignity and not defile your purity with sinful deeds.
Repentance or confession is a sacrament in which a person who confesses his sins to a priest, through his forgiveness, is resolved from sins by the Lord Himself. The question of whether, father, is asked by many people who join church life. The preliminary confession prepares the soul of the penitent for the Great Meal - the Sacrament of Communion.
The Holy Fathers call the Sacrament of Repentance the second baptism. In the first case, at Baptism, a person receives cleansing from the original sin of the forefathers Adam and Eve, and in the second, the penitent is washed away from his sins committed after baptism. However, because of the weakness of their human nature, people continue to sin, and these sins separate them from God, standing between them as a barrier. They cannot overcome this barrier on their own. But the Sacrament of Penance helps to be saved and acquire that unity with God acquired at Baptism.
The Gospel says about repentance that it is a necessary condition for the salvation of the soul. A person throughout his life must continuously struggle with his sins. And, despite all the defeats and falls, he should not lose heart, despair and grumble, but repent all the time and continue to carry his life's cross, which the Lord Jesus Christ laid on him.
In this matter, the main thing is to learn that in the Sacrament of Confession, a penitent person is forgiven all his sins, and the soul is freed from sinful bonds. The ten commandments received by Moses from God and the nine commandments received from the Lord Jesus Christ contain the entire moral and spiritual law of life.
Therefore, before confessing, it is necessary to turn to your conscience and remember all your sins from childhood in order to prepare a real confession. How it passes, not everyone knows, and even rejects, but a true Orthodox Christian, overcoming his pride and false shame, begins to spiritually crucify himself, honestly and sincerely admit his spiritual imperfection. And here it is important to understand that unconfessed sins will be defined for a person in eternal condemnation, and repentance will mean victory over oneself.
Before confessing to a priest, it is necessary to seriously prepare and realize the necessity of cleansing the soul from sins. To do this, one must reconcile with all the offenders and those who were offended, refrain from gossip and condemnation, all kinds of obscene thoughts, watching numerous entertainment programs and reading lightweight literature. It is better to devote your free time to reading the Holy Scriptures and other spiritual literature. It is advisable to confess a little in advance at the evening service, so that during the morning Liturgy you will no longer be distracted from the service and devote time to prayerful preparation for Holy Communion. But already, as a last resort, you can confess in the morning (mostly everyone does this).
For the first time, not everyone knows how to confess correctly, what to say to the priest, etc. In this case, you need to warn the priest about this, and he will direct everything in the right direction. Confession, first of all, involves the ability to see and realize one's sins; at the moment of uttering them, the priest should not justify himself and shift the blame onto another.
Children under 7 and all newly baptized communion on this day without confession, only women who are in purification (when they have menstruation or after childbirth until the 40th day) cannot do this. The text of the confession can be written on a piece of paper so as not to stray later and remember everything.
A lot of people usually gather in the church for confession, and before approaching the priest, you need to turn your face to the people and say out loud: “Forgive me, a sinner,” and they will answer: “God will forgive, and we forgive.” And then it is necessary to go to the confessor. Approaching the lectern (high book stand), crossing yourself and bowing at the waist, without kissing the Cross and the Gospel, bowing your head, you can proceed to confession.
Previously confessed sins do not need to be repeated, because, as the Church teaches, they have already been forgiven, but if they are repeated again, then they must be repented of again. At the end of your confession, you must listen to the words of the priest and when he finishes, cross himself twice, bow at the waist, kiss the Cross and the Gospel, and then, again crossing and bowing, accept the blessing of his father and go to your place.
Summing up the topic “Confession. How does this sacrament go”, you need to familiarize yourself with the most common sins in our modern world.
Sins against God - pride, lack of faith or unbelief, renunciation of God and the Church, careless execution of the sign of the cross, not wearing a pectoral cross, violation of the commandments of God, mentioning the name of the Lord in vain, careless performance not attending church, prayer without diligence, talking and walking in the temple during services, belief in superstitions, turning to psychics and fortune tellers, thoughts of suicide, etc.
Sins against one's neighbor - upsetting parents, robbery and extortion, stinginess in almsgiving, hardness of heart, slander, bribery, resentment, barbs and cruel jokes, irritation, anger, gossip, gossip, greed, scandals, hysteria, resentment, betrayal, treason, etc. d.
Sins against oneself - vanity, arrogance, anxiety, envy, vindictiveness, desire for earthly glory and honors, addiction to money, gluttony, smoking, drunkenness, gambling, masturbation, fornication, excessive attention to one's flesh, despondency, longing, sadness etc.
God will forgive any sin, nothing is impossible for him, a person only needs to truly realize his sinful deeds and sincerely repent of them.
They usually confess in order to take communion, and for this you need to pray for several days, which means prayer and fasting, attending evening services and reading at home, in addition to evening and morning prayers, the canons: the Mother of God, the Guardian Angel, the Penitent One, for Communion, and, if possible, , or rather, at will - Akathist to Jesus the Sweetest. After midnight they no longer eat or drink, they proceed to the sacrament on an empty stomach. After acceptance, one must read the prayers for Holy Communion.
Don't be afraid to go to confession. How is she going? You can read about this exact information in special brochures that are sold in every church, they describe everything in great detail. And then the main thing is to tune in to this true and saving deed, because an Orthodox Christian must always think about death so that it does not take him by surprise - without even taking communion.
When you come to church for confession, don't be afraid. The Lord is generous, accepts all sinners. Forgiving the repentant. Do not be afraid of the priest, he is the eyes and ears of the Lord, no one will know about your secret sins. He listens so much throughout the day that by dinnertime he does not remember who came to him and what he said.
Batiushka is the only person who will not wish you harm, envy you. He will only rejoice that another soul has been saved, and thank God that he is all-seeing and all-good for directing you on the right path!
The priest in the church is not an all-seeing eye, especially not a psychic to guess about your sins. He will ask questions, one way or another related to sins. These questions are directly related to the 10 important commandments.
1. "I am your God."Will be listed:
2. "Do not make an idol for yourself."This may include:
3. Do you remember the Lord in moments of frustration?
4. Do you dedicate a day off to prayer.
5. Do you respect your parents
6. Do not kill, neither in word nor deed.
7. Don't seduce anyone, don't ruin someone's marriage and life.
8. Don't take what doesn't belong to you.
9. Do not slander relatives and friends of lies.
10. Don't want what others have.
Before you go to the priest for confession, you need to prepare. What does it mean to be prepared? To do this, you need to read prayers, fast at least a day before going to the temple. Directly on the day of confession itself, you need not eat anything, come to the very beginning of the service. If the priest notices that you were absent from the very beginning of the service, he will not confess.
Don't look for excuses for your actions. If they did so, then they wanted to, and at that time it suited you very much. Before going to confession, reconcile with yourself, your loved ones, ask for forgiveness, if necessary.
The confession is divided into two parts:
These are two completely different sides of the same coin. When you come to church, you must be aware of what and why you will say. In front of a complete stranger it is very difficult to tell what misconduct you have, and why you did it. It becomes embarrassing, many forget or do not want to talk about the most painful mistakes made.
You can make a list of misdeeds, so you won’t forget anything, and then it will be easier to talk about it. If it is still difficult for you to make such a list, there is a mini shop at the church, it certainly has a booklet on how to conduct a confession, what sins exist.
After confession, a person usually experiences a feeling of relief, as if a mountain had been lifted from his shoulders. You can confess several times a week. Frequent trips to church help to feel relaxed and confident.
Compiling and reading such a ready-made list of many ladies leads to a stupor. To understand that your life is a continuous sinful nightmare is far from being possible for everyone. You should not despair. Consult with the priest, he will briefly explain everything and tell you what and why. No one will invade your personal life, because only the Lord knows why this is so, and how you deserve it. You, having passed the secret of confession, will be able to figure it out and draw the right conclusions, improve your life position and take the right path to correct life's mistakes. You can discuss contraception with the priest, because abortions are a mortal sin, and it is better to avoid this in time than to repent all your life later.
List of possible sins:
You need to trust the priest, tell everything:
The priest must understand what you need to do, read, how many days to fast, and how exactly to fast. That's why he is the right hand of the Lord.
I repent, Lord. Sinful. The world is sinful and I'm no better. I despair, I am offended, I am angry. I skip the post on Wednesday and Friday. I don't stick to a strict post. Sometimes I overeat, I'm lazy. I yell at my husband and children. I don't trust people. I'm bad at my job. I'm worried that I don't have enough money. I do not trust the Lord, I rely only on myself, etc.
There are several options for confession. Short, involves a description of perfect deeds, words or deeds. A full confession also includes thoughts and desires. Monks go through this confession. Believers, if desired, can also undergo such a complete purification of the soul. To do this, you need to consult with the priest, or read the relevant literature.
The sheet must be divided into parts:
Many people think that having written down their misdeeds on a piece of paper, they are doing wrong, and when they come to confession, they forget half of their sins, they go astray. Such a presentation of one's thoughts will streamline the confession itself, and not allow one to forget or hide something.
There is an opinion that writing sins on a piece of paper is no longer a secret, but a banal reading.
In confession, it is important to repent, to understand what was perfect and not to allow such acts anymore. That is why, it is worth considering the transfer of sins to paper as a design of a memo or a hint.
It is harder for men to admit their misdeeds, words, sins. They may even think that they are not to blame for anything. In their notion, only women are guilty. Therefore, repent and confess only to them.But this is far from true. Men are no less sinful. In some ways, they discuss and gossip more than we do. A short temper and narcissism, in general, a separate topic for conversation.
Possible sins:
This is not a complete list of male sins. To most of the above, mankind treats it for granted, and does not consider it a sin at all.
People sin in their own way. One considers his act the norm, for the other it is a mortal sin.
Here is a rough list of possible options:
Fornication is considered a very serious sin. Previously, such offenses were excommunicated from communion for up to 7 years. It is located inside the person himself, in his subconscious. It eats a person from the inside. Being in such a sophisticated state, you feel euphoria. You no longer want to read a prayer. Such sinners are objectionable to God, he is disgusted by the mere thought of them. But at the same time, having repented, they will be forgiven faster than anyone else.
As the holy fathers say, three days of intense prayer, fasting, and repentance are enough to earn the Lord's forgiveness.
Of course, it's scary to be ashamed, but it's better to tell and repent than to carry this abomination in yourself. And if your family is also expecting a baby, even more so. Why torture the unborn soul of a baby. After all, we pass our sins on to our children. And then we wonder why they get sick, or have a lot of problems in life!
In this case, you should not write a note to the priest. Like, read it, while I go to the store or smoke! This is kindergarten! When they sinned, there was no shame before God, but before the priest, yes!
The most important thing! Repented. Learned the material. Correct your mistake! Don't repeat it! By repeating, you automatically become a hypocrite!
May the Lord keep you from temptation.
The concept is ambiguous, and the sin is very serious. In the Christian faith, they call it masturbation, or onanism. Loving yourself with your hands is the same sin as cheating on your wife, or sorting out girls. It is very difficult to get rid of such a cunning passion. Batiushka needs to be told everything in detail, he will ask many questions. It is necessary to get to the bottom of this sin, since this is the tip of the iceberg, the root of the problem is much worse and hides deep in the subconscious, hiding behind other obvious sins.
Confession means to pass a small judgment of God. Blush, and you will be ashamed only. And there, in that world, at the judgment of God, all your deceased relatives will be ashamed, you can’t hide anything there. Therefore, you have sinned, repent, here and now.
For this sin in the old days they were punished with strict fasting, they sat on bread and water for 40 days. In the service bows were beaten tirelessly.
The Holy Scripture says: “If anyone has sinned, forgive him, and all his sins will be forgiven. And if you don’t forgive someone, they will remain on that.
To do such a thing means to waste your strength and life resource in vain. Such behavior indicates that the Orthodox are weak-willed, weak-willed, do not have the strength of mind to control their desires.The Church does not take this for granted. Since for a natural permissible fornication there must be two, a husband and a wife. That's the only way they get approval. Everything else is sinful and unethical.
Priests say about masturbation that it is unclean. It was with this sin that the son of Patriarch Judah Onan was slain. To receive pleasure, God's blessing on church marriage is necessary. And it is easier to enter into it than to be under constant sinful addiction.
She will succumb to sin, maybe the female gender. The Church condemns him no less than the male. It follows from this that they also need to repent.
Onanism also happens among teenagers, girls and boys. At this age, this is more of an unconscious act, leading to this bad hyena, too tight things. Parents are obliged to look after their children, to control their behavior. Correcting this problem is more difficult, children, as a rule, do not understand the full depth of the problem, and do not realize what they are to blame for.
You should spend as much time with them as possible, change clothes if the reason is in it. Sign your child up for swimming. Find the cause of the problem. Read spiritual literature to a child, subtly explain that it is a sin.
The priest will help you choose the necessary prayers that will help get rid of this addiction.
Children should be taught to church from infancy. Until the age of seven, children do not confess. It is believed that the child is still sinless. And what he says and how he acts is only our merit and an example set.It is necessary to explain to the child what confession is, why it is needed. Children should understand that they tell about their bad deeds not to their uncle in a cassock, but to God himself, that the priest is the eyes and ears of the Lord.
From what will be the mood of the child, depends on his attendance at church and attitude towards it. In no case do not insist, if the child is not ready, there will only be harm to his fragile psyche.
Parents can briefly, but correctly, explain to their child what sin is and what they are. Every parent knows the characteristics of their child. For shy children, you can offer to write a note, so you will help him concentrate. Explain to the child that you should not be afraid, that you will not know about his conversation with God. He must learn to trust both you and the priest.
Children's sins are not as bitter as adults'. They are more like misdemeanors. Therefore, a child's confession differs from an adult's. Approximate questions that the priest can ask:
Older children are more susceptible to outside influences, such as friends, the street. They defend their point of view, their opinion. Unfortunately, in the rhythm of big cities, there is not always time to control where they are, and with whom they are friends, what they watch and what sites they visit! Therefore, it is important to teach a teenager to trust, if not you, then at least a priest. He definitely will not advise the bad, and will unequivocally take the side of the teenager, suggest the right way out of this situation. And certainly will not criticize, like many parents.
It is in adolescence that children manage to get into different stories, trying to get out of them themselves, thinking that they are already adults and have enough experience. They are afraid to confess to their parents, consult with friends.
By attending church and trusting God through a priest, a teenager can avoid many difficult situations. Do not spoil your life, do not take the path of sin from such a young age.
What can a father ask?
There are no sinners whom the Savior could not ask. If a person repents in confession, he can receive forgiveness. The sin that the church cannot forgive is foul language against the Lord, the Church and its laws.
The Lord forgives all sins. Because of his love for us, he suffered and was crucified. He accepts all sinners, gives them a second chance, and believes that they can be reformed.
The question is whether a person who has sinned can forgive himself. And if he caused pain and suffering, even more so.
If you missed or forgot to tell the priest during the service, then when the chrismation is performed, the sins will be forgiven. Such services are held in the evening, on the Sabbath day or on holidays.
