A Preparation For Confession

by Saint Nicolas Varzhansky

During Great Lent, and the other fasts of the Church Year, it is customary for all Orthodox Christians to go to confession to their priest.

Properly, this should be done several times a year, the exact frequency depending upon how often one is blessed to receive the Holy Mysteries and on the counsel and blessing of one’s spiritual father. As a preparation for this sacramental confession and to help one examine one’s conscience before coming to confession, the following questions are sometimes distributed in parishes and, although of course the list is not exhaustive, it may be a help to those of our readers who are Orthodox Christians preparing for a saving confession.

I publish this every year for the use of my parishioners during Great Lent.

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