Brief Confession
I confess to the Lord my God and before you,
reverend father, all my countless sins which I have committed till the present
day and hour: in thought, word, and deed. Every day and every hour I sin
through ingratitude to God for His great and numberless blessings to me and His
most gracious providence and care for me, a sinner.
I have
sinned through idle talk, condemnation of others, scorn, insubordination,
pride, unkindness, envy, anger, slander, inattention, carelessness, negligence,
impudence, discourtesy, irritability, sloth, despondency, resentment,
remembrance of wrongs, paying back evil with evil, violence, obduracy,
disobedience, grumbling, self-justification, contradiction, independence,
self-will, reproachfulness, evil speaking, lying, laughing, tempting,
self-love, ambition, fastidiousness, gluttony, excess in eating and drinking,
eating and drinking in secret, drunkenness, attachment to things, conceit,
laziness, harboring of licentious unclean thoughts, dallying with them and
taking pleasure in them, sensual imaginings, daydreams and issues.
I have sinned through excessive sleeping, impure glances, omitting divine service from laziness or neglect, dozing and whispering in church, arriving late for the beginning of church services, inattention during prayer in church and in private, not fulfilling properly the monastic rule of private prayer.
I have
sinned in thought, word and deed and by sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch,
and by my other spiritual and bodily senses. But I repent of these sins and ask
forgiveness.
Here it is necessary to mention, also, other sins, if you have anything
special on your conscience.
I also
repent and ask forgiveness for everything which I have not confessed through
ignorance or forgetfulness.
Forgive
and absolve me, reverend father, and bless me to partake of the Holy and
Life-giving Mysteries of Christ for the remission of my sins and for eternal
life.
Missionary Leaflet #
Orthodox Church Pakistan
www.ocpak.com
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