PREPARING FOR CONFESSION .................... 3
Prayer before confession................................................................................................. 3
Of St. Symeon the New Theologian ........................................................................... 3
A Preparation for Confession.......................................................................................... 4
by St. John of Kronstadt.............................................................................................. 4
Preparation for Confession ............................................................................................. 6
Preparation for Confession ............................................................................................. 9
From the Vision of Blessed Theodora ........................................................................ 9
A LIST OF THE PASSIONS ....................................................................................... 15
by Saint Peter of Damaskos ...................................................................................... 15
EXAMPLES OF CONFESSIONS .................... 18
A Lament for Sin .......................................................................................................... 18
St. Basil the Great ..................................................................................................... 18
A Brief Confession before One's Spiritual Father ........................................................ 21
From the Full Confession of St. Demetrius of Rostov.............................................. 21
BRIEF CONFESSION BEFORE A SPIRITUAL FATHER ....................................... 22
Compiled by the late Archbishop Tikhon of San Francisco. .................................... 22
Based on a longer version by St Dimitry of Rostov. ................................................ 22
A sincere confession of an Orthodox Christian ............................................................ 23
AN ORTHODOX CONFESSION WHICH LEADS THE INWARD MAN TO
HUMILITY................................................................................................................... 29
From "The Way of a Pilgrim"................................................................................... 29
ABOUT CONFESSION.................................... 32
What Is Necessary for a Saving Confession? ............................................................... 32
by Metropolitan Innocent of Moscow....................................................................... 32
A Catechism on Confession.......................................................................................... 35
The relationship between Confession and Communion ............................................... 39
LESSONS FROM THE FATHERS - On Confession of One's Sins ............................ 41