Chapter

  1 Intro|         oneself.~The present work, Confession, is based on the lectures
  2 Intro|   spiritual advice and help during confession, and gives great insight
  3 Intro|          of Metropolitan~Anthony’s Confession is that it deals with such
  4 Intro|          today! Lay people reading Confession should be on their guard
  5 Intro|            Spiritual Father.”~When Confession was written, people were
  6 Intro|     ecclesiastical world today.~In Confession, Metropolitan Anthony often
  7 Intro|      material for guidance through confession in perfect~readiness, as
  8 Intro|          are so striking. His book Confession can be compared only~with
  9 1    |             1. The Significance of Confession for Christians.~When I was
 10 1    |            to hear the lectures on confession, of~which I gave four or
 11 1    |      remember.~In a certain sense, confession is a thing which should
 12 1    |            talking to penitents at confession, no matter to whom they
 13 1    |          their conversation during~confession: salvation of the soul,
 14 1    |          even with those coming to confession is~something completely
 15 1    |           general do not look upon confession with such secrecy, such~
 16 1    |        altogether ceased coming to confession and~turned themselves away
 17 1    |       resolved “to abolish private confession and replace it with general~
 18 1    |            replace it with general~confession,” i.e. simply abolish confession
 19 1    |   confession,” i.e. simply abolish confession altogether. This amounts
 20 1    |      Orthodox Faith, since without confession the attitude towards religious
 21 1    |           the fact that we perform confession ineffectively and~in a disorderly
 22 1    |           stand before them during confession. In order to realize~this
 23 1    |       conversation which occurs at confession is an~absolutely exceptional
 24 1    |         have conversations outside confession, especially at~the present
 25 1    |           the day~and the hour for confession comes and he willingly expounds
 26 1    |         father will not repeat his confession to anyone. Perhaps~he has
 27 1    |             Perhaps~he has avoided confession for several years just because
 28 1    |         you; if you do not come~to confession “incidentally,” “by the
 29 2    |            continue our talk about confession and even~touch on the question
 30 2    |          Half the people~coming to confession are used to doing it as
 31 2    |           receive the~sacrament of confession from you. But read the Book
 32 2    |     Christians who come to you for confession are. But I would~like to
 33 3    |                3. The Influence of Confession.~Here is a penitent, after
 34 3    |           to go to that priest for~confession. Nevertheless, we are obliged
 35 3    |            twice, or even~just the confession of one person, new spiritual
 36 3    |         soul; another will ask for confession in church,~even outside
 37 3    |            pastor who treats their~confession not as a sounding board
 38 3    |          performing the~mystery of confession, but your soul should be
 39 3    |            weary with labouring at~confession for a whole day? Just listen
 40 3    |           outward arrangements for confession so as to be able to give
 41 3    |          you will come to the next~confession already more mature spiritually,
 42 4    |         The Outward Arrangement of Confession.~It is difficult to arrange
 43 4    |            is difficult to arrange confession any better than it is now
 44 4    |           be heard in one day,~and confession takes place only during
 45 4    |    increase the number~of days for confession, but my parishioners just
 46 4    |         take Communion may come to confession both on Tuesday and on~Wednesday.
 47 4    |            parishioners to come to confession not only on the~four or
 48 4    |        four days before the actual confession. No, start as early as the
 49 4    |          significance an unhurried~confession of their sins and a talk
 50 4    |     necessity whatever of going to~confession on the eve of Communion
 51 4    |            later those who came to confession not on Friday, but earlier,
 52 4    |          assign days and times for confession according to your own~discretion,
 53 4    |         Each time you must precede confession with a detailed and inspiring
 54 4    |        before God and~to a sincere confession of sins before their spiritual
 55 4    |         the prayers of the rite of confession, recall what penances~were
 56 4(4) |           e.g., Baptism, Marriage, Confession, Memorial~Services). Many
 57 4(4) |         including the full Rite of Confession, may be found in~“The Service
 58 4    |            preceding days. Then at confession your heart will not have~
 59 4    |            people who have come to confession?”~Also try to ensure that
 60 4    |          that the person coming to confession unfailingly hears the~confession
 61 4    |   confession unfailingly hears the~confession prayers and the exhortation
 62 4    |        those who are preparing for confession, and since not all those
 63 4    |           not all those corming to~confession are in church by then, these
 64 4    |            to read the~preliminary confession prayers for each of them
 65 4    |       introduced into our order of confession quite recently, less than
 66 4(10)|           the Orthodox approach to confession, in~which it is God Who
 67 4    |          explain to people on each confession day that they must unfailingly~
 68 5    |            and hope — with~ ~which confession becomes fruitful. But this
 69 5    |         even greater difficulty at confession,~even if it is unhurried.
 70 5    |          Performing~the Mystery of Confession” by Archbishop Platon of
 71 5    |      material for guidance through confession in perfect readiness, as
 72 5    | parishioners~will reveal to him at confession and in general in spiritual
 73 6    |            give~edifying advice at confession to people with various dispositions
 74 6    |          probably not even~come to confession, but then (I was teaching
 75 6    |            in another place before confession, especially if he is an~
 76 6    |         love and the conditions of confession enable you to talk about
 77 8    |          forever. Those~who lie at confession usually end their earthly
 78 9    |          Leo Tolstoy writes in his Confession that~he only began to think
 79 9    |     questions~of eternity. Thus in confession people admit to committing
 80 9    |    unconcerned people, both during confession and~while edifying his flock
 81 9    |            that if anyone comes to confession in such a spirit he will
 82 9    |           stand before you at holy confession without repentant~contrition.
 83 10   |           of this sort. Apart from confession itself, he must~explain
 84 11   |    especially in the sermon before confession,~that their struggle must
 85 11   |         and advise those coming to confession from this~point of view,
 86 11   |            ask all those coming to confession whether they harbor any
 87 12   |          Is it possible, even in a confession lasting ten minutes, to
 88 12   |     beforehand in sermons, then at~confession they will understand what
 89 12   |       should be understood that in confession, since it is so short, you~
 90 13   |        priest has to listen to the confession of sins~against chastity
 91 13   |           save their souls come to confession.xviii Many, if not the~majority
 92 13   |     greater sin to conceal sins at confession: as~we have already said,
 93 13   |            and will stop coming to confession~altogether. So, however
 94 13   |       until he has obtained a full confession. It is no pleasure for us
 95 13   |           capable of hearing their confession, the sin weighs on their~
 96 13   |             concealment of sins at confession in~women’s monasteries occurs
 97 13   |        before you after making his confession, console him as God helps
 98 13   |     primarily considering~talks at confession. These “lambs for the slaughter”
 99 13   |        slaughter” will not come to confession at all~unless it is with
100 14   |            most difficult thing at confession is to teach a drunkard~who
101 15   |            to make those~coming to confession aware of their spiritual
102 15   |          individual sinful acts at confession, but also to find out what
103 15   |           penitent individually at confession.~Every Christian should
104 15   |        grief. But let us return to confession.~So, when a person comes
105 15   |             when a person comes to confession and complains of his inconsolable
106 16   |           wish knowingly to lie at confession he will admit, when asked
107 17   |          salvation~(i.e. coming to confession) as people wishing to devote
108 17   |           talk also about these at confession, but we will limit ourselves
109 18   |        prayer book: 1) The rite of confession; 2) The evening prayer to
110 18   |        pamphlet entitled A~General Confession of Sins by St. Dimitry of
111 18   |          print called The Order of Confession, which contains both the~
112 18   |       Dimitry and the full rite of Confession, and also other~questions
113 18   |           God’s church and even to confession. They do~not seek to justify
114 18   |           most undesirable type of confession occurs when a person, who
115 18   |      pointing out this attitude to confession, we are not contradicting
116 18   |         fathers: those who come to confession receive their~words as the
117 18   |           is during the minutes of confession.~This indifferent and dismal
118 18   |          be in himself. But a long confession would be necessary for this,~
119 18   |         the person who has come to confession,~and knows that he has committed
120 20   |           said at the beginning of confession that,~although you do not
121 21   |           the beauty of virtues at confession, since its most immediate~
122 21   |      possible in the short time of~confession, then besides giving specific
123 22   |           contemporaries coming to confession are liable not~just to strict
124 22   |            of their own neglect of confession or else out of false~delicacy
125 22   |       could not resolve to come to confession. Concerning the~imposition
126 A    |         Extracts From the Order of Confession.~1. Exhortation to the penitent:~
127 A    |       invisibly, and receiveth thy confession:~wherefore, be not ashamed,
128 B    |             Also From the Order of Confession.~(Note: In this context
129 C    |                  Appendix C.~Brief Confession Before a Spiritual Father.~
130 C    |          prayer~concealing sins at confession~I have sinned with all my