{"id":54,"date":"2018-11-25T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-25T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.smallpage.online\/2018\/11\/25\/quick-confession-what-if-i-did-not-have\/"},"modified":"2019-02-19T06:47:33","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T06:47:33","slug":"quick-confession-what-if-i-did-not-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/quick-confession-what-if-i-did-not-have","title":{"rendered":"Quick Confession: What if I Did not Have Time to Name All My Sins?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"featured_ing aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/tatarstan-mitropolia.ru-_EKE.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"853\" data-original-width=\"1280\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question:<\/strong> <em>I prepared for Confession, and wrote my sins on a piece of paper. In the church there were lots of people, and the Batiushka didn\u2019t have the possibility of listening to me or reading my piece of paper. The prayer of absolution was read over me, but the priest did not know what I had written. In such a case do I need to confess these sins once again, or are they already forgiven by the Lord?\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Answer:<\/strong> In order to receive forgiveness of sins from God, one needs to have in the soul a sincere penitential feeling and confess one\u2019s transgressions. St John of Kronstadt wrote: \u201cThe Master, as the Seer of Hearts, knows that people are inclined to all extreme falls, and having fallen, often get up, therefore he gave the commandment to forgive falls into sin; and He Himself is the first to fulfill His holy word: as soon as you say from your heart &#8216;I repent&#8217; \u2013 at that moment you\u2019re forgiven&#8221; (My Life in Christ). You had penitence, you named your sins to God, the priest read the prayer of absolution \u2013 that means your transgressions are forgiven. You don\u2019t need to repent of them further. Another time, when there aren\u2019t so many people, the priest can read your piece of paper with your sins, perhaps, and ask questions and give beneficial advice.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: I prepared for Confession, and wrote my sins on a piece of paper. 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