Sins Against God and the Church No matter how scholastic the division of sins in manuals on moral theology into sins against God, against neighbors, against society, against the family, etc., and, as we have seen, Sts. The Fathers know a different division: into passions or evil thoughts, yet for more

Sins against neighbors Sins against God and the Church belong in content to the realm of apologetics and pastoral asceticism. Asceticism presupposes the already established appearance of a Christian who is ready to fight his shortcomings and passions, while disbelief, lack of faith,

Sins against God Did you love God more than anything? Didn't read, think, say, or listen to anything against God and against faith? Did you doubt the truths and dogmas of St. Church, didn't you murmur against God? Did he not blaspheme the Lord God, or the saints, St. Church and on

Sins against your neighbor Did you love your parents, did you obey them, did you honor them? Have you caused them grief, condemned them, prayed for them? Did you live well with your family? Did he honor his mentors and superiors, did he obey them? Did he act in good faith?

Sins against God Pride; breaking the commandments of God; unbelief, lack of faith and superstition; lack of hope in God's mercy; excessive hope in the mercy of God; hypocritical veneration of God, formal worship to him; blasphemy; lack of love and fear of God;

Sins against one's neighbor Lack of love for one's neighbors and one's enemies; unforgiveness of their sins; hatred and malice; the answer is evil for evil; disrespect to parents; disrespect for elders and superiors; killing babies in the womb (abortions), advice to commit

Sins against God One of the gravest sins is deliberate abuse of God and faith, blasphemy and grumbling against God. For the last sin, the possessed and a significant number of the insane were subjected to their affliction. Blasphemy. This sin we commit when we speak mockingly of

Sins against neighbors Due to forgetfulness of God and neglect of our souls, we often inflict spiritual harm on our neighbors. A particularly serious sin is a gross insult to parents, constantly inflicted insults. The Lord spoke to Moses:

Sins against our own soul We also turn out to be unworthy masters of our own soul, which God has given us to make it capable of serving Him and our neighbors. The soul that has submitted to God is always dissatisfied with itself and reproaches itself, except for direct violations of the commandments.

1. LACK OF BELIEF, DOUBT IN THE TRUTH OF SACRED WRITING AND TRADITION(that is, in the dogmas of the Church, its canons, the legitimacy and correctness of the hierarchy, the performance of divine services, in the authority of the writings of the holy fathers). Renunciation of faith in God out of fear of people and concern for earthly well-being.

   Little faith- the absence of a complete, deep conviction in any Christian truth or the acceptance of this truth only with the mind, but not with the heart. This sinful state arises on the basis of doubt or lack of zeal for true knowledge of God. Lack of faith is to the heart what doubt is to the mind. It relaxes the heart on the paths of fulfilling the will of God. Confession helps cast out lack of faith and strengthens the heart.

   Doubt- a thought that violates (obviously and vaguely) the conviction of the truth of the teachings of Christ and His Church in general and in particular, for example, doubts in the gospel commandments, doubts in dogmas, that is, any member of the Creed, in the holiness of any saint recognized by the Church or the events of Sacred History celebrated in the Church, in the inspiration of the Holy Fathers; doubt in the veneration of holy icons and relics of saints, in the invisible Divine presence in worship and in the sacraments.

   In life, one must learn to distinguish between "empty" doubts raised by demons, the environment (the world) and one's own mind darkened by sin - such doubts must be rejected by an act of will - and real spiritual problems that must be resolved based on full trust in God and His Church , forcing oneself to complete self-disclosure before the Lord in the presence of a confessor. It is better to confess all doubts: both those that were rejected by the inner spiritual eye, and especially those that were accepted in the heart and gave rise to confusion and despondency there. Thus the mind is purified and enlightened, and faith strengthened.

   Doubt may arise on the basis of excessive self-confidence, fascination with other people's opinions, little jealousy for the realization of one's faith. The fruit of doubt is relaxation in following the path of Salvation, contradiction to the will of God.

2. PASSIVITY (LITTLE ZEALITY, Lack of Effort) IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF CHRISTIAN TRUTH, teachings of Christ and His Church. Lack of desire (if possible) to read the Holy Scriptures, the works of the holy fathers, to ponder and comprehend the dogmas of faith with the heart, to understand the meaning of worship. This sin arises from mental laziness or an excessive fear of falling into any kind of doubt. As a result, the truths of faith are assimilated superficially, thoughtlessly, mechanically, and in the end, a person's ability to effectively-consciously fulfill the will of God in life is undermined.
3. HERESIES AND SUPERSTITIES. Heresy is a false doctrine relating to the spiritual world and communion with it, rejected by the Church as being in clear contradiction with Holy Scripture and Tradition. Heresy often leads to personal pride, excessive trust in one's own mind and personal spiritual experience. The reason for heretical opinions and judgments may also be insufficient knowledge of the teachings of the Church, theological ignorance.
4. rite of faith. Adherence to the letter of Scripture and Tradition, giving meaning only outside church life while forgetting its meaning and purpose - these vices are united under the name of ritual belief. Belief in the saving value of only the exact execution of ritual actions in themselves, without taking into account their inner spiritual meaning, testifies to the inferiority of faith and a decrease in reverence for God, forgetting that a Christian must serve God in the renewal of the spirit, and not according to the old letter (Rom. 7, 6). Ritual belief arises from insufficient understanding of the Good News of Christ, and He gave us the ability to be ministers of the New Testament, not of the letter, but of the spirit, because the letter kills, but the spirit gives life (2 Cor. 3, 6). Ritual belief testifies to an inadequate perception of the teachings of the Church, which does not correspond to its greatness, or to an unreasonable zeal for service, which does not correspond to the will of God. Ritual belief, quite common among the church people, entails superstition, legalism, pride, division.
5. DIStrust in God. This sin is expressed in the lack of confidence that the primary cause of all external and internal life circumstances is the Lord, who wants us to be truly good. Distrust of God is caused by the fact that a person has not sufficiently accustomed himself to the Gospel Revelation, has not felt its main knot: voluntary suffering, crucifixion, death and Resurrection of the Son of God.

   From distrust of God, such sins arise as the lack of constant gratitude to Him, despondency, despair (especially in illnesses, sorrows), cowardice in circumstances, fear of the future, vain attempts to insure against suffering and avoid trials, and in case of failure - hidden or obvious grumbling on God and His Providence for oneself. The opposite virtue is the laying of one's hopes and hopes on God, the complete acceptance of His Providence for oneself.

6. Murmuring at God. This sin is a consequence of distrust of God, which can lead to a complete falling away from the Church, loss of faith, apostasy and theomachism. The opposite virtue to this sin is humility before God's providence for oneself.
7. INGRATITUDE TO GOD. A person often turns to God during periods of trials, sorrows and illnesses, asking to soften or even deliver them from them, on the contrary, during periods of external well-being, he forgets about Him, not realizing that he uses His good gift, does not thank for him. The opposite virtue is constant thanksgiving to the Heavenly Father for the trials, consolations, spiritual joys and earthly happiness that He sends down.
8. LITTLE ZEEDY (OR THE COMPLETE LACK OF IT) FOR GOD-COMMUNICATION, SPIRITUAL LIFE. Salvation is fellowship with God in Christ in the eternal future life. Earthly life for acquiring the grace of the Holy Spirit, revealing in oneself the Kingdom of Heaven, God-settlement, God-sonship.

   The achievement of this goal depends on God, but God will not constantly be with a person if he does not show all his zeal, love, and intelligence in order to draw closer to Him. The whole life of a Christian is directed towards this goal. If you do not have love for prayer as a way of communion with God, for the temple, for participation in the sacraments, then this is a sign of a lack of zeal for communion with God.

   Applied to Prayer this is manifested in the fact that it happens only under compulsion, irregular, inattentive, relaxed, with a careless position of the body, mechanical, limited only; memorized or recited prayers. There is no constant memory of God, love and gratitude to Him as the background of all life.

   Possible reasons: insensitivity of the heart, passivity of the mind, lack of proper preparation for prayer, unwillingness to think through and understand with the heart and mind the meaning of the forthcoming prayer work and the content of each petition or doxology.

   Another group of reasons: the attachment of the mind, heart and will to earthly things.

   Regarding church worship this sin manifests itself in a rare, irregular participation in public worship, absent-mindedness or conversations during the service, walking around the temple, distracting others from prayer with their requests or remarks, being late for the start of the service and leaving before the dismissal and blessing. In general, this sin boils down to not feeling the special presence of God in the temple during public worship.

   Causes of sin: unwillingness to enter into prayer unity with brothers and sisters in Christ due to the burden of earthly cares and immersion in the vain affairs of this world, powerlessness in the fight against internal temptations sent by spiritually hostile forces that hinder and hold us back from acquiring the grace of the Holy Spirit, and and, finally, pride, unfraternal, unloving attitude towards other parishioners, irritation and bitterness against them.

   Regarding the Sacrament of Penance the sin of indifference manifests itself in rare confessions without proper preparation, in the preference for a general personal confession in order to go through it more painlessly, in the absence of a desire to deeply know oneself, in an unbroken and unhumble mental disposition, in the absence of determination to leave sin, to eradicate vicious inclinations, to overcome temptations, instead of This is the desire to belittle sin, to justify oneself, to keep silent about the most shameful deeds and thoughts. Thus committing deceit before the Face of the Lord Himself, who accepts confession, a person aggravates his sins.

   The reasons for these phenomena are in a lack of understanding of the spiritual meaning of the Sacrament of repentance, in complacency, self-pity, vanity, in the unwillingness to overcome demonic resistance internally.

   We sin especially grievously against the Most Holy and Life-Giving Mysteries of the Body and Blood of Christ, approaching Holy Communion rarely and without proper preparation, without first purifying our souls in the Sacrament of Penance, we do not feel the need to receive Communion more often, we do not keep our purity after communion, but again we fall into fuss and indulge in vice.

   The reasons for this are rooted in the fact that we do not ponder over the meaning of the highest sacrament of the Church, we do not realize its greatness and our sinful unworthiness, the need to heal the soul and body, we do not pay attention to insensitivity of the heart, we do not realize the influence of fallen spirits nesting in our souls, which they turn us away from communion, and therefore we do not resist, but succumb to their temptation, we do not enter into a struggle with them, we do not experience reverence and fear of God's presence in the Holy Gifts, we are not afraid to partake of the Holy “for judgment and condemnation”, we do not care about the constant fulfillment of the will God in life, inattentive to our hearts, prone to vanity, we approach the Holy Chalice with a hardened heart, not reconciled with our neighbors.

9. LACK OF FEAR OF GOD AND AWESOME FOR HIM. Careless, distracted prayer, irreverent behavior in the temple, in front of the Shrine, disrespect for the holy dignity.

   The lack of memory of a mortal in anticipation of the Last Judgment.

10. disobedience to the will of God. Obvious disagreement with the will of God expressed in His commandments, Holy Scripture, the instructions of the spiritual father, the voice of conscience, reinterpreting the will of God in one’s own way, in a sense favorable to oneself with the aim of self-justification or condemnation of one’s neighbor, putting one’s own will above the will of Christ, jealousy is not according to reason in ascetic exercises and forcing others to follow oneself, failure to fulfill the promises made to God in previous confessions.
11. SELF-JUSTIFICATION, SUFFICIENCY. Satisfaction with one's spiritual dispensation or state.
12. DESPAIR from the spectacle of his spiritual state and impotence to fight sin. In general, self-assessment of one's own spiritual dispensation and state; the imposition of spiritual judgment on oneself, in contrast to what the Lord Jesus Christ said: Vengeance is mine, I will repay (Rom. 12:19).
13. Lack of Spiritual Sobriety, constant heartfelt attention, absent-mindedness, sinful oblivion, foolishness.
14. SPIRITUAL PRIDE, attributing to oneself the gifts received from God, the desire for independent possession of any spiritual gifts and energies.
15. SPIRITUAL fornication, attraction to spirits alien to Christ (occultism, eastern mysticism, theosophy). Spiritual life is being in the Holy Spirit.
16. FLIGHTLY-SACRED ATTITUDE TO GOD AND THE CHURCH: the use of the name of God in jokes, the frivolous mention of shrines, curses, with the mention of His name, the pronunciation of the name of God without reverence.
17. SPIRITUAL EGOISM, spiritual voluptuousness - prayer, participation in the sacraments only for the sake of receiving spiritual pleasures, consolations and experiences.
18. IMPATIENCE IN PRAYER AND OTHER SPIRITUAL ACTIONS. This includes failure to fulfill the prayer rule, breaking fasts, eating at the wrong time, leaving the temple prematurely without a particularly good reason.
19. CONSUMER ATTITUDE TO GOD AND THE CHURCH when there is no desire to give something to the Church, to work somehow for her. Prayer asking for worldly success, honors, satisfaction of selfish desires and material wealth.
20. SPIRITUAL SPIRITUALITY, lack of spiritual generosity, the need to convey to others the grace received from God with a word of consolation, sympathy, service to people.
21. THE LACK OF CONSTANT CARE ABOUT THE FULFILLMENT OF GOD'S WILL IN LIFE. This sin manifests itself when we do serious things without asking God's blessing, without consulting and asking for blessings from a spiritual father.
22. SPIRITUAL INDIVIDUALISM, a tendency to isolate in prayer (even during Divine Liturgy), forgetting that we are members of the Catholic (Catholic) Church, members of one mystical Body of Christ, fellow members of each other.

About repentance

Our Lord Jesus Christ, who came to call not the righteous, but sinners to repentance (Matthew 9:13), Even in His earthly life He established the sacrament of the forgiveness of sins. The harlot, who washed His feet with tears of repentance, He let go with the words: “Your sins are forgiven… your faith has saved you, go in peace.” (Luke 7:48, 50). The paralytic, brought to Him on the bed, He healed, saying: “Your sins are forgiven ... but so that you know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins,” then he says to the paralytic, “arise, take up your bed and go to your house » (Mt. 9, 2, 6).

He gave this power to the apostles, and they to the priests of the Church of Christ, who have the right to resolve sinful bonds, that is, to free the soul from the sins committed and weighing upon it. If only a person came to confession with a sense of repentance, an awareness of their iniquities and a desire to cleanse the soul from the burden of sin...

This pamphlet is intended to help the penitent: it contains a list of sins compiled on the basis of the "general confession" of St. Demetrius of Rostov.

Sins against God and the Church
* Disobedience to the will of God. Obvious disagreement with the will of God, expressed in His commandments, Holy Scripture, the instructions of the spiritual father, the voice of conscience, reinterpreting the will of God in one’s own way, in a sense favorable to oneself with the aim of self-justification or condemnation of one’s neighbor, delivering one’s own will above the will of Christ, jealousy is not according to reason in ascetic exercises and forcing others to follow oneself, failure to fulfill the promises made to God in previous confessions.

* Murmur at God. This sin is a consequence of distrust of God, which can lead to a complete falling away from the Church, loss of faith, apostasy and theomachism. The opposite virtue to this sin is humility before God's providence for oneself.

* Ingratitude to God. A person often turns to God during periods of trials, sorrows and illnesses, asking to soften or even deliver them from them, on the contrary, during periods of external well-being, he forgets about Him, not realizing that he uses His good gift, does not thank for him. The opposite virtue is constant thanksgiving to the Heavenly Father for the trials, consolations, spiritual joys and earthly happiness He sends.

* Lack of faith, doubt in the truth of Holy Scripture and Tradition (that is, in the dogmas of the Church, its canons, the legitimacy and correctness of the hierarchy, the celebration of divine services, in the authority of the writings of the holy fathers). Renunciation of faith in God out of fear of people and concern for earthly well-being.

Lack of faith is the lack of complete, deep conviction in any Christian truth, or the acceptance of this truth only with the mind, but not with the heart. This sinful state arises on the basis of doubt or lack of zeal for true knowledge of God. Lack of faith is to the heart what doubt is to the mind. It relaxes the heart on the paths of fulfilling the will of God. Confession helps cast out lack of faith and strengthens the heart.

Doubt is a thought that violates (obviously and vaguely) the conviction of the truth of the teachings of Christ and His Church in general and in particular, for example, doubts in the gospel commandments, doubts in dogmas, that is, any member of the Creed, in the holiness of any recognized by the Church a saint or the events of Sacred history celebrated in the Church, in the inspiration of the Holy Fathers; doubt in the veneration of holy icons and the relics of saints, in the invisible Divine presence, in worship and in the sacraments.

In life, one must learn to distinguish between “empty” doubts raised by demons, the environment (the world) and one’s own mind darkened by sin — such doubts must be rejected by an act of will — and real spiritual problems that must be resolved based on full trust in God and His Church , forcing oneself to complete self-disclosure before the Lord in the presence of a confessor. It is better to confess all doubts: both those that were rejected by the inner spiritual eye, and especially those that were accepted in the heart and gave rise to confusion and despondency there. Thus the mind is purified and enlightened, and faith strengthened.

Doubt may arise on the basis of excessive self-confidence, fascination with other people's opinions, little jealousy for the realization of one's faith. The fruit of doubt is relaxation in following the path of salvation, contradiction to the will of God.

* Passivity(little zeal, lack of diligence) in the knowledge of Christian truth, the teachings of Christ and His Church. Lack of desire (if possible) to read the Holy Scriptures, the works of the holy fathers, to ponder and comprehend the dogmas of faith with the heart, to understand the meaning of worship. This sin arises from mental laziness or an excessive fear of falling into any kind of doubt. As a result, the truths of faith are assimilated superficially, thoughtlessly, mechanically, and in the end, a person's ability to effectively-consciously fulfill the will of God in life is undermined.

* Heresies and superstitions. Heresy is a false doctrine relating to the spiritual world and communion with it, rejected by the Church as being in clear contradiction with Holy Scripture and Tradition. Heresy often leads to personal pride, excessive trust in one's own mind and personal spiritual experience. The reason for heretical opinions and judgments may also be insufficient knowledge of the teachings of the Church, theological ignorance.

* Ritual belief. Adherence to the letter of Scripture and Tradition, attaching importance only to the external side of church life while forgetting its meaning and purpose - these vices are united under the name of ritual belief. Belief in the saving value of only the exact execution of ritual actions in themselves, without taking into account their inner spiritual meaning, testifies to the inferiority of faith and a decrease in reverence for God, forgetting that a Christian should “serve God in the renewal of the spirit, and not according to the old letter” (Rom. 7:6). Ritual belief arises from insufficient understanding of good news Christ, but "He gave us the ability to be ministers of the New Testament, not of the letter, but of the spirit, because the letter kills, but the spirit gives life" (2 Cor. 3, 6). Ritual belief testifies to an inadequate perception of the teachings of the Church, which does not correspond to its greatness, or to an unreasonable zeal for service, which does not correspond to the will of God. Ritual belief, quite common among the church people, entails superstition, legalism, pride, division.

* Distrust of God. This sin is expressed in the lack of confidence that the primary cause of all external and internal life circumstances is the Lord, who wants us to be truly good. Distrust of God is caused by the fact that a person has not sufficiently accustomed himself to the Gospel Revelation, has not felt its main knot: voluntary suffering, crucifixion, death and resurrection of the Son of God.

From distrust of God arise such sins as the lack of constant gratitude to Him, despondency, despair (especially in illnesses, sorrows), cowardice in circumstances, fear of the future, vain attempts to insure against suffering and avoid trials, and in case of failure - hidden or obvious grumbling on God and His Providence for oneself. The opposite virtue is the laying of one's hopes and hopes on God, the complete acceptance of His Providence for oneself.

* Lack of fear of God and reverence for Him. Careless, distracted prayer, irreverent behavior in the temple, in front of a shrine, disrespect for the holy dignity.

The lack of memory of a mortal in anticipation of the Last Judgment.

* Small jealousy(or its complete absence) to communion with God, spiritual life. Salvation is fellowship with God in Christ in the eternal future life. Earthly life for the acquisition of the grace of the Holy Spirit, the disclosure of the Kingdom of Heaven in oneself, divinity, divine sonship. The achievement of this goal depends on God, but God will not constantly be with a person if he does not show all his zeal, love, and intelligence in order to draw closer to Him. The whole life of a Christian is directed towards this goal. If you do not have love for prayer as a way of communion with God, for the temple, for participation in the sacraments, then this is a sign of a lack of zeal for communion with God.

In relation to prayer, this manifests itself in the fact that it happens only under compulsion, irregular, inattentive, relaxed, with a careless position of the body, mechanical, limited only by memorized or recited prayers. There is no constant memory of God, love and gratitude to Him as the background of all life.

Possible reasons: insensitivity of the heart, passivity of the mind, lack of proper preparation for prayer, unwillingness to think through and understand with the heart and mind the meaning of the forthcoming prayer work and the content of each forgiveness or doxology.

Another group of reasons: the attachment of the mind, heart and will to earthly things.

In relation to temple worship, this sin manifests itself in rare, irregular participation in public worship, absent-mindedness or conversations during the service, walking around the temple, distracting others from prayer with their requests or remarks, being late for the start of the service and leaving before the dismissal and blessing.

In general, this sin boils down to not feeling the special presence of God in the temple during public worship.

Causes of sin: unwillingness to enter into prayer unity with brothers and sisters in Christ due to the burden of earthly cares and immersion in the vain affairs of this world, powerlessness in the fight against internal temptations sent by spiritually hostile forces that hinder and hold us back from acquiring the grace of the Holy Spirit, and and, finally, pride, unfraternal, unloving attitude towards other parishioners, irritation and bitterness against them.

In relation to the Sacrament of Repentance, the sin of indifference manifests itself in rare confessions without proper preparation, in the preference for a general personal confession in order to go through it more painlessly, in the absence of a desire to deeply know oneself, in an unbroken and unhumble mental disposition, in the absence of determination to leave sin, to eradicate vicious inclinations , to overcome temptations, instead - the desire to belittle sin, justify oneself, keep silent about the most shameful actions and thoughts. Thus committing deceit in the face of the Lord Himself, who accepts confession, a person aggravates his sins.

The reasons for these phenomena are in the misunderstanding of the spiritual meaning of the Sacrament of repentance, in complacency, self-pity, vanity, in the unwillingness to overcome demonic resistance internally.

We sin especially grievously against the Most Holy and Life-Giving Mysteries of the Body and Blood of Christ, approaching Holy Communion rarely and without proper preparation, without first purifying the soul in the Sacrament of Penance; we do not feel the need to partake more often, we do not keep our purity after communion, but again we fall into vanity and indulge in vices.

The reasons for this are rooted in the fact that we do not ponder over the meaning of the highest sacrament of the Church, we do not realize its greatness and our sinful unworthiness, the need to heal the soul and body, we do not pay attention to insensitivity of the heart, we do not realize the influence of fallen spirits nesting in our souls, which they turn us away from communion, and therefore we do not resist, but succumb to their temptation, we do not enter into a fight with them, we do not experience reverence and fear of the presence of God in the Holy Gifts, we are not afraid to partake of the Holy “for judgment and condemnation”, we do not care about the constant fulfillment of the will God in life, inattentive to our hearts, prone to vanity, we approach the Holy Chalice with a hardened heart, not reconciled with our neighbors.

* Self-justification, complacency. Satisfaction with one's spiritual dispensation or state.

* Despair from the spectacle of one's spiritual state and impotence to fight sin. In general, self-assessment of one's own spiritual dispensation and state; the imposition of spiritual judgment on oneself, in contrast to what the Lord Jesus Christ said: “Vengeance is mine, I will repay” (Rom. 12:19).

* Lack of spiritual sobriety constant heartfelt attention, absent-mindedness, sinful oblivion, unreason.

* spiritual pride, attributing to oneself the gifts received from God, the desire for independent possession of any spiritual gifts and energies.

* spiritual fornication, attraction to spirits alien to Christ (occultism, Eastern mysticism, theosophy). True spiritual life is being in the Holy Spirit.

* Frivolous and sacrilegious attitude towards God and the Church: the use of the name of God in jokes, the frivolous mention of shrines, curses with the mention of His name, the pronunciation of the name of God without reverence.

* spiritual individualism, a tendency to isolate in prayer (even during the Divine Liturgy), forgetfulness of the fact that we are members of the Catholic (Catholic) Church, members of the one mystical Body of Christ, fellow members.

* Spiritual selfishness, spiritual voluptuousness- prayer, participation in the sacraments only for the sake of receiving spiritual pleasures, consolations and experiences.

* Impatience in prayer and others spiritual exploits. This includes failure to fulfill the prayer rule, breaking fasts, eating at the wrong time, leaving the temple prematurely without a particularly good reason.

* Consumer attitude towards God and the Church, when there is no desire to give something to the Church, to work somehow for her. Prayer asking for worldly success, honors, satisfaction of selfish desires and material wealth.

* spiritual greed, lack of spiritual generosity, the need to convey to the neighbors the grace received from God with a word of consolation, sympathy, service to people.

* Lack of constant concern for the fulfillment of the will of God in life. This sin manifests itself when we do serious things without asking God's blessing, without consulting and asking for blessings from a spiritual father.

Sins towards neighbors

* Pride, exaltation over one's neighbor, arrogance, "demonic stronghold" (this most dangerous of sins is considered separately and in detail below).

* Condemnation. The tendency to notice, remember and name other people's shortcomings, to make a clear or internal judgment on one's neighbor. Under the influence of condemnation of one's neighbor, which is not always noticeable even for oneself, a distorted image of him is formed in the heart. This image then serves as an internal justification for dislike for this person, a scornfully evil attitude towards him. In the process of repentance, this false image must be crushed and, on the basis of love, the true image of each neighbor must be recreated in the heart.

* Anger, irritability, grumpiness. Can I control my outbursts of anger? Do I allow swear words, curses in quarrels with my neighbors, in raising children? Will I use foul language in normal conversation (to be "like everyone else")? Is there any rudeness, rudeness, arrogance, malicious mockery, hatred in my behavior?

* Unmercifulness, uncompassionateness. Am I responding to requests for help? Are you ready for self-sacrifice, almsgiving? Is it easy to lend things, money? Do I reproach my debtors? Am I rudely and persistently demanding the return of what I borrowed? Do I brag to people about my sacrifices, almsgiving, helping others, expecting approval and earthly rewards? Was he stingy, afraid of not getting what he asked for back?

Works of mercy should be done in secret, for we do them not for the sake of human glory, but for the love of God and neighbor.

* Resentment, unforgiveness of insults, vindictiveness. Excessive demands on others. These sins contradict both the spirit and the letter of the gospel of Christ. Our Lord teaches us to forgive our neighbor sins against us up to seventy times seven. Without forgiving others, taking revenge on them for their offense, keeping in mind the evil against another, we cannot hope for the forgiveness of our own sins by the Heavenly Father.

* self-isolation, alienation from other people.

* Disregard for others, indifference. This sin is especially terrible in relation to parents: ingratitude towards them, callousness. If parents have died, do we forget to remember them in prayer?

* Vanity, ambition. We fall into this sin when we are conceited, flaunting our talents, spiritual and bodily, mind, education, and when we demonstrate our superficial spirituality, ostentatious churchliness, imaginary piety.

How do we treat members of our family, people with whom we often meet or work? Can we tolerate their weaknesses? Are we often irritated? Are we arrogant, touchy, intolerant of other people's shortcomings, other people's opinions?

* curiosity, desire to be the first, to command. Do we love to be served? How do we treat people who depend on us at work and at home? Do we love to rule, to insist on doing our will? Don't we have a tendency to interfere in other people's affairs, in someone else's private life with persistent advice and instructions? Don't we tend to leave the last word for ourselves, just to disagree with the opinion of another, even if he is right?

* human-pleasing- this is the reverse side of the sin of arrogance. We fall into it, wanting to please another person, afraid of embarrassing ourselves in front of him. From human pleasing, we often do not expose the obvious sin, we participate in a lie. Have we not indulged in flattery, that is, a feigned, exaggerated admiration for a person, trying to get his goodwill? Have we not adapted to other people's opinions, tastes for our own benefit? Have you ever been deceitful, dishonest, two-faced, unscrupulous in your work? Didn't they betray people, saving themselves from trouble? Did they place their blame on others? Did they keep other people's secrets?

Pondering into his past, a Christian preparing for confession should remember all the evil that he voluntarily or involuntarily committed towards his neighbors.

Was it not the cause of grief, someone else's misfortune? Did he destroy the family? Is he guilty of adultery and did he push another to this sin by pandering? Did he take upon himself the sin of killing an unborn child, did he not contribute to this? These sins should be repented only in personal confession.

Was he not prone to obscene jokes, anecdotes, immoral allusions? Didn't he offend the shrine of human love with cynicism and abuse?

* Peace breaking. Do we know how to keep peace in the family, in communication with neighbors, co-workers? Do we allow ourselves slander, condemnation, evil ridicule? Are we able to curb our tongue, are we not chatty?

Are we not showing an idle, sinful curiosity about the lives of other people? Are we attentive to the needs and concerns of people? Do we close ourselves in, in our supposedly spiritual problems, turning away people?

* Envy, malevolence, malevolence. Didn't you envy someone else's success, position, dispensation? Didn't you secretly wish failure, failure, a sad outcome for other people's affairs? Didn't you openly or secretly rejoice at someone else's misfortune, failure? Have you incited others to evil deeds while remaining outwardly innocent? Have you ever been overly suspicious, seeing only the bad in everyone? Did he not point out to one person the vice (obvious or imaginary) of another person in order to quarrel them? Did he abuse the trust of his neighbor by revealing to others his shortcomings or sins? Did you spread gossip that defames the wife in front of her husband or the husband in front of his wife? Did his behavior cause jealousy of one of the spouses and anger against the other?

* Resist evil against yourself. This sin manifests itself in a clear resistance to the offender, in retribution with evil for evil, when our heart does not want to bear the pain inflicted on him.

* Failure to help the neighbor, offended, persecuted. We fall into this sin when, out of cowardice or misunderstood humility, we do not stand up for the offended, we do not expose the offender, we do not testify to the truth, we allow evil and injustice to triumph.

How do we endure the misfortune of our neighbor, do we remember the commandment: "Carry one another's burdens"? Are you always ready to help, sacrificing your peace and well-being? Are we leaving our neighbor in trouble?

Sins against oneself and other sinful inclinations contrary to the spirit of Christ

* Sadness, despair. Have you given in to despondency, despair? Have you thought about suicide?

* Bad faith. Do we force ourselves to serve others? Do we sin by dishonest performance of our duties in work, upbringing of children; whether we keep our promises to people; Do we not introduce people into temptations by being late to the meeting place or to the house where they are waiting for us, by forgetfulness, optionality, frivolity?

Are we careful at work, at home, in transport? Do we scatter in work: forgetting to finish one thing, we move on to another? Are we strengthening ourselves in the intention to serve others?

* bodily excesses. Didn't he destroy himself with excesses according to the flesh: overeating, eating sweets, gluttony, eating at the wrong time?

Have you abused your inclination to bodily peace and comfort, sleeping a lot, staying in bed after waking up? Have you indulged in laziness, immobility, lethargy, relaxation? Are you addicted to a certain way of life so that you do not want to change it for the sake of your neighbor?

Isn't he sinful of drunkenness, this most terrible of modern vices, destroying the soul and body, bringing evil and suffering to others? How do you deal with this vice? Do you help your neighbor to get away from him? Did he not seduce the non-drinker with wine, did he not give wine to the minor and the sick?

Is he not addicted to smoking, which also destroys health? Smoking distracts from spiritual life, a cigarette replaces prayer for a smoker, displaces the consciousness of sins, destroys spiritual chastity, serves as a temptation for others, harms their health, especially children and adolescents. Didn't use drugs?

* sensual thoughts and temptations. Have we struggled with sensual thoughts? Have you avoided the temptations of the flesh? Did they turn away from seductive spectacles, conversations, touches? Have they not sinned by intemperance of spiritual and bodily feelings, pleasure and slowness in impure thoughts, voluptuousness, immodest glance at persons of the opposite sex, self-desecration? Do we not recall with delight our former sins of the flesh?

* Peacefulness. Are we not sinning by catering to human passions, mindlessly following the way of life and behavior accepted among the people around us, including those that exist in the church environment, but not imbued with the spirit of love, pretending to portray piety, falling into hypocrisy, hypocrisy?

* Disobedience. Do we sin by disobedience to parents, elders in the family, bosses at work? Do we not follow the advice of our spiritual father, do we evade the penance imposed on us by him, this spiritual medicine that heals the soul? Do we suppress the pangs of conscience in ourselves by not fulfilling the law of love?

* Idleness, wastefulness, attachment to things. Are we wasting our time? Are we using our God-given talents for good? Are we wasting money for ourselves and others without benefit?

Are we not sinning with addiction to the comforts of life, are we not attached to perishable material things, are we not accumulating excessively, “for a rainy day”, food products, clothes, shoes, luxurious furniture, jewelry, thereby not trusting God and His Providence, forgetting that tomorrow we can appear before His court?

* money-grubbing. We fall into this sin when we are excessively carried away by the accumulation of perishable riches or by seeking human glory in work, in creativity; when, under the pretext of being busy, we refuse to pray and visit the temple even on Sundays and holidays, we indulge in much concern, vanity. This leads to captivity of the mind and petrification of the heart.

We sin in word, deed, thought, all five senses, knowledge and ignorance, willingly and unwillingly, in reason and unreason, and there is no way to enumerate all our sins according to their multitude. But we truly repent of them and ask for grace-filled help to remember all our sins, forgotten and therefore unrepentant. We promise to continue to guard ourselves with the help of God, to avoid sin and to do works of love. You, Lord, forgive us and forgive us from all sins by Your mercy and long-suffering, and bless us to partake of Your Holy and Life-Giving Mysteries not for judgment and condemnation, but for the healing of soul and body. Amen.

List of deadly sins

1. Pride, despising all, demanding servility from others, ready to ascend to heaven and become like the Most High; in a word, pride to the point of self-adoration.

2. Unsatisfied soul, or Judas's greed for money, connected for the most part with unrighteous acquisitions, which does not give a person even a minute to think about spiritual things.

3. Fornication, or the dissolute life of the prodigal son, who squandered all his father's estate on such a life.

4. Envy, leading to every possible evil deed to the neighbor.

5. Gluttony, or fleshly pleasure, not knowing any fasts, combined with a passionate attachment to various amusements, following the example of the gospel rich man, who rejoiced all day long.

6. Anger uncompromising and resolving on terrible destruction, following the example of Herod, who in his anger beat the Bethlehem babies.

7. Sloth, or perfect carelessness about the soul, negligence about repentance until the last days of life, as, for example, in the days of Noah.

Special mortal sins - blasphemy against the Holy Spirit

These sins include:

stubborn disbelief, not convinced by any evidence of the truth, even by obvious miracles, rejecting the most learned truth.

Despair, or the opposite of excessive hope in God, a feeling in relation to the mercy of God, which denies paternal goodness in God and leads to thoughts of suicide.

Over-reliance on God or the continuation of a gravely sinful life in the sole hope of God's mercy.

Deadly sins that cry out to heaven for vengeance

* In general, deliberate homicide (abortion), and in particular patricide (fratricide and regicide).

* Sodom sin.

* Vain oppression of a poor, defenseless person, a defenseless widow and young orphans.

* Withholding from the wretched worker his well-deserved wages.

* Taking away from a person in his extreme position the last piece of bread or the last mite, which he obtained with sweat and blood, as well as the forcible or secret appropriation of alms, food, warmth or clothing from those imprisoned in prison, which are determined by him, and generally their oppression.

* Grief and resentment to parents to their impudent beatings.

Of the eight major passions with their subdivisions
and branches and the virtues that oppose them
(according to the works of St. Ignatius Brianchaninov)

1. gluttony- gluttony, drunkenness, non-keeping and permission of fasts, secret eating, delicacy, generally violation of abstinence. Wrong and excessive love of the flesh, its belly and rest, from which self-love is made, from which comes the non-keeping of fidelity to God, the Church, virtue and people.

This passion must be resisted. abstinence - restraint from excessive consumption of food and food, especially from excessive consumption of wine, keeping the fasts established by the Church. One must bridle one's flesh with a moderate and constantly uniform use of food, which is why all passions begin to weaken in general, and especially self-love, which consists in wordless love of the flesh, life and its peace.

2. fornication- fornication kindling, fornication sensations and positions of the soul and heart. Prodigal dreams and captivity. 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 are unnatural.

This passion is resisted chastity - avoidance of all kinds of fornication. Chastity is the avoidance of voluptuous conversations and reading, from the pronunciation of voluptuous, nasty and ambiguous words. The storage of the senses, especially sight and hearing, and even more touch. Alienation from TV and depraved films, depraved newspapers, books and magazines. Modesty. Rejection of thoughts and dreams of prodigal. The beginning of chastity is the mind that does not waver from lustful thoughts and dreams; the perfection of chastity is purity that sees God.

3. love of money- love of money, in general, love of property, movable and immovable. Desire to get rich. Reflection on the means to enrichment. Dream of wealth. Fears of old age, sudden poverty, sickness, exile. Avarice. Greed. Unbelief in God, distrust of His Providence. Addiction or painful excessive love for various perishable objects, depriving the soul of freedom. Passion for vain cares. Loving gifts. Appropriation of someone else. Likhva. Hardness of heart to the poor brethren and to all those in need. Theft. Robbery.

Fight this passion non-acquisitiveness - self-satisfaction with one necessary thing, hatred of luxury and bliss, mercy to the poor. Non-acquisitiveness is the love of gospel poverty. Trust in God's Providence. Following Christ's commandments. Calmness and freedom of spirit and carelessness. Softness of the heart.

4. Anger- temper, acceptance of angry thoughts: dreaming of anger and revenge, indignation of the heart with rage, clouding the mind with it; obscene shouting, argument, swearing, cruel and caustic words; hitting, pushing, killing. Remembrance, hatred, enmity, revenge, slander, condemnation, indignation and resentment of one's neighbor.

The passion of anger resists meekness — evasion from angry thoughts and from the indignation of the heart with rage. Patience. Following Christ, calling His disciple to the cross. Peace of the heart. Silence of the mind. Firmness and courage are Christian. Not feeling insulted. Kindness.

5. sadness- grief, longing, cutting off hope in God, doubt in the promises of God, ungratefulness to God for everything that happens, cowardice, impatience, not self-reproach, sorrow for one's neighbor, grumbling, renunciation of the cross, an attempt to get off it.

With this passion they fight, opposing it blissful lamentation — a feeling of a fall, common to all people, and of one's own spiritual poverty. Lamentation about them. Cry of the mind. Painful contusion of the heart. The lightness of conscience that vegetates from them, grace-filled consolation and joy. Hope for the mercy of God. Thanksgiving to God in sorrows, their humble bearing from the sight of many of their sins. Willingness to endure.

6. Despondency- laziness in every good deed, especially in prayer. Abandonment of church and private rules. Abandoning unceasing prayer and soulful reading. Inattention and haste in prayer. Neglect. Irreverence. Idleness. Excessive comfort with sleep, lying down and all kinds of languor. Idle talk. Jokes. Blasphemy. Leaving bows and other bodily feats. Forgetting your sins. Forgetfulness of the commandments of Christ. Negligence. Captivity. Deprivation of the fear of God. Bitterness. Insensibility. Despair.

Despondency resists sobriety — diligence in every good deed. Non-lazy correction of the church and private rules. Attention in prayer. Careful observation of all deeds, words, thoughts

and with your feelings. Extreme self-doubt. Unceasing stay in prayer and the Word of God. Awe. Constant vigilance over yourself. Keeping oneself from much sleep and effeminacy, idle talk, jokes and sharp words. Love of night vigils, bows and other feats that bring vigor to the soul. Remembrance of eternal blessings, desire and expectation of them.

7. Vanity— the search for the glory of man. Boasting. Desire and search for earthly and vain honors. Love of beautiful clothes. Attention to the beauty of your face, the pleasantness of your voice and other qualities of the body. Shame to confess your sins. Hiding them before people and the spiritual father. Craftiness. Self-justification. Envy. Humiliation of the neighbor. Change of temper. Indulgence. Unscrupulousness. The temper and life are demonic.

Fighting with vanity humility . This virtue includes the fear of God. Feeling it while praying. Fear that is born during especially pure prayer, when the presence and majesty of God are especially strongly felt, so as not to disappear and turn into nothing. Deep knowledge of your insignificance. A change in the outlook on neighbors, and they, without any coercion, seem to the resigned person to be superior to him in every respect. The manifestation of innocence from living faith. Knowledge of the sacrament hidden in the Cross of Christ. The desire to crucify oneself to the world and passions, the desire for this crucifixion. Rejection of earthly wisdom as indecent before God (Lk. 16:15). Silence before those who offend, studied in the Gospel. Putting aside all one's own thoughts and accepting the gospel mind. Deposition of every thought that rises against the mind of Christ. humility or spiritual reasoning. Conscious obedience to the Church in everything.

8. Pride- contempt for others. Preferring yourself to everyone. audacity; obscuration, debility of the mind and heart. Nailing them to the earth. Hula. Disbelief. False mind. Disobedience to the Law of God and the Church. Follow your carnal will. Abandoning Christ-like humility and silence. Loss of simplicity. Loss of love for God and neighbor. False philosophy. Heresy. Irreligion. Ignorance. Death of the soul.

Pride Opposes love . The virtue of love includes the change during prayer of the fear of God into the love of God. Loyalty to the Lord, proven by the constant rejection of every sinful thought and feeling, The indescribable, sweet attraction of the whole person to love for the Lord Jesus Christ and for the worshiped Holy Trinity. Vision, in the neighbors of the image of God and Christ; the preference for oneself of all one's neighbors arising from this spiritual vision, their reverent reverence for the Lord. Love for neighbors, brotherly, pure, equal to all, joyful, impartial, flaming equally towards friends and enemies. Rapture into prayer and love of the mind, heart and whole body. Inexpressible pleasure of the body with spiritual joy. Inactivity of bodily senses during prayer. Resolution from the silence of the heart tongue. Cessation of prayer from spiritual sweetness. Silence of the mind. Enlightenment of the mind and heart. Prayer power that overcomes sin. Peace of Christ. Retreat of all passions. The absorption of all minds by the superior mind of Christ. Theology. Knowledge of incorporeal beings. The weakness of sinful thoughts that cannot be depicted in the mind. Sweetness and abundant consolation during sorrows. Vision of human arrangements. The depth of humility and the most humble opinion of oneself ... The end is endless!

General list of sins

I confess, I am sinful (name) Lord God and Savior our Jesus Christ and you, honest father, all my sins and all my evil deeds, which I have done all the days of my life, which I have thought even to this day.

Sinned: He did not keep the vows of holy Baptism, but he lied in everything and made himself indecent before the face of God.

Forgive me, honest father.

Sinned: before the Lord, 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, calling on the name of God without need - in vain.

Forgive me, honest father.

Sinned: lack of love and fear for the Lord, failure to fulfill His holy will and holy commandments, careless depiction of the sign of the cross, irreverent veneration of holy icons; did not wear a cross, was ashamed to be baptized and confess the Lord.

Forgive me, honest father.

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 prisons; From laziness and neglect, I did not learn the Law of God and the Holy Fathers traditions.

Forgive me, honest father.

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 church service 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.

Sinned: daring in impurity to go to the temple of God and touch every holy thing.

Forgive me, honest father.

Sinned: disrespect for the feasts of God; violation of holy fasts and non-keeping of fasting days - Wednesdays and Fridays; intemperance in food and drink, polygamy, secret eating, polyeating, drunkenness, dissatisfaction with food and drink, clothing; parasitism; of one's will and mind by fulfillment, self-righteousness, self-will and self-justification; improper veneration of parents, not raising children in the Orthodox faith, cursing their children and neighbors.

Forgive me, honest father.

Sinned: unbelief, superstition, doubt, despair, despondency, blasphemy, false worship, dancing, smoking, playing cards, divination, witchcraft, sorcery, gossip; commemorated the living for peace, ate the blood of animals.

Forgive me, honest father.

Sinned: pride, conceit, arrogance; pride, ambition, envy, arrogance, suspicion, irritability.

Forgive me, honest father.

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; sinned with gloating, malevolence, mourning, insult, mockery, reproach and pleasing to people.

Forgive me, honest father.

Sinned: intemperance of spiritual and bodily feelings, impurity of the soul and body; pleasure and slowness in impure thoughts, addiction, voluptuousness, immodest glance at wives and young men; in a dream, prodigal desecration of the night, intemperance in married life.

Forgive me, honest father.

Sinned: impatience of illnesses and sorrows, love of the comforts of this life, captivity of the mind and petrification of the heart, not forcing oneself to every good deed.

Forgive me, honest father.

Sinned: inattention to the suggestions of one’s conscience, negligence, laziness in reading the Word of God and indolence in acquiring the Jesus Prayer, covetousness, love of money, unrighteous acquisition, theft, theft, stinginess, attachment to all sorts of things and people.

Forgive me, honest father.

Sinned: condemnation and disobedience of the spiritual fathers, grumbling and resentment against them and not confessing their sins before them out of forgetfulness, negligence and 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.

Sinned: laziness, relaxation, negligence, love of bodily peace, many sleeps, voluptuous dreams, biased views, shameless body movements, touches, fornication, adultery, corruption, masturbation, unmarried marriage; grievously sinned those who performed abortions for themselves or others, or persuaded someone to this great sin - infanticide; spent time in empty and idle pursuits, in empty talk, jokes, laughter and other shameful sins; read obscene books, magazines and newspapers, watched depraved programs and films on television.

Forgive me, honest father.

Sinned: despondency, cowardice, impatience, grumbling, despair in salvation, lack of hope in God's mercy, insensitivity, ignorance, arrogance, shamelessness.

Forgive me, honest father.

Sinned: slandering one's neighbor, 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: coldness and insensitivity at confession, diminishing sins, blaming others, and not condemning himself.

Forgive me, honest father.

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.

Sinned: word, thought and all my senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch, -

Willingly or not, knowingly or ignorantly, in reason and foolishness, and it is not possible to enumerate all my sins according to their multitude. But in all these, so in those indescribable in oblivion, I repent and regret, and henceforth, with the help of God, I promise to be guarded.

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.

Sins that have been confessed and resolved earlier should not be repeated at confession, for, as the Holy Church teaches, they have already been forgiven, but if we repeated them again, then we need to repent of them again. We must also repent of those sins that were forgotten, but are now remembered.

The penitent is required to recognize his sins, condemn himself for them, self-condemnation before the confessor. This requires contrition and tears, faith in the forgiveness of sins. In order to draw closer to Christ and receive salvation, it is necessary to hate past sins and repent not only in word, but also in deed, that is, to correct one's life: after all, sins shorten it, and the struggle with them attracts the grace of God.