The Sacrament of Confession

[@franciscafazzo3460]

Pray for me I'm in bondage in addiction and depression

[@josephparkhurst2164]

Christ be with you !

[@matangibear]

I have been away for a long time from the Christian faith. I was raised Catholic and went to Catholic school growing up. I decided not to be confirmed in 8th grade. Now I am back to the faith and taking RCIA to be confirmed and my Dad is my sponsor for these classes. I have been wanting however to covert to Orthodox. Your video on St. Mary of Egypt and other videos is what inspired me to go back to the church and to confession. Since I am Catholic however I went to a Catholic confession. In my RCIA class we recently had a class about The 10 Commandments and confessions. I was told to do a thorough evaluation of my conscience according to The 10 Commandments. So I did that and wrote everything down for 3 days and I went back to confession yesterday. It was pretty long and the priest stopped me and said there wasn't enough time and nobody has ever confessed that much. He wasn't at all nice or gentle about it. He gave me absolution and I asked him if I could take communion and he said yeah why couldn't you? My Dad and my RCIA priest said that priest shouldnt have handled it that way and were concerned I'm discouraged because of it. I never in my life have been more sure than now I want to become Orthodox. I just don't want to hurt or disappoint my father who is devout Catholic. I seriously have been considering going to a Byzantine Catholic church until I'm confirmed Catholic and then converting to Orthodox so that I don't disappoint my father. Do you have any advice for me?

[@Trisagionfilms]

I realize this is a difficult decision for you, but if you are sure you want to become Orthodox, don’t be afraid to bring this up to your father and explain to him why. You may want to take your time before you speak to him until you learn more and are able to explain why you want to become Orthodox. I believe that your father will be happy with your decision to seek a deeper spiritual life and come closer to God. He may become more interested in the Orthodox Church and the spirituality and mystical traditions and experiences found in it and he may benefit from it himself. Pray sincerely and deeply about this, give it a little time and follow the guidance God will put in your heart as you proceed forward. This is your decision that you should make in your own time and take responsibility for it. Fr. Panayiotis

[@paulwilliams9207]

We would love the opportunity to go to confession, and be healed by God, reconciled to Him and feel the weight of every day sins lifted. Pray for us to have that opportunity. Thank you for this lovely and interesting video, and God bless.

[@MicahMarshall4Truth]

Did the opportunity come?

[@reyno6826]

Glory to God!

[@SonuYadav-hd5qk]

Thank u I need health,mind,job.amen.

[@John7-17]

May God bless my Orthadox brothers in Christ and make us One in His Body Amin

[@eduardoschiavon5652]

From which tradition do you come from?

[@jsperos]

Thank you Father for this wonderful piece on the Sacrament of Confession. God bless you…Kalo Pascha.

[@Orthodoxi]

How simple confession was in the days of community communion with God. The repentant sinner of this time may stand with God in continual confession. To be so in His light. It is very astonishing. Glory to God!

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[@franciscafazzo3460]

Christ heal my disease bring me home

[@yannisvaroufakis9395]

The Protestant view is astounding in its illogic and contradiction. They worship a supernatural God, but they deny and reject the supernatural in their worship of Him. They accept the doctrine of the Trinity which defies human logic, and accept the supernatural miracles related in the Bible, but they reject the apostolic teaching about the presence of Christ in the bread and wine as making no rational sense.

[@th3manbatista]

Except for the Lutherans they except the literal presence of Christ actual body and blood that we receive through bread and wine for the forgiveness of sins.

[@patrickhartnett7253]

Amen

[@HarryAGeorgiou]

Can a member of the clergy be depositioned as a result of the sin as a penance? Eg a deacon confess their sin to the bishop, he is forgiven but cannot as a result continue being a deacon? Or even higher clergy and heirarchs?

[@eduardoschiavon5652]

I'm not very sure how it works in the east, but in the Catholic Church the doctrine on ordination is this one: Ordination is also a Sacrament, therefore it imprints the priestly character on the soul of the man. So there's no power on earth that can erase that sacramental mark on the soul of a priest, which means that he will always be a priest in one way or the other. However, if a priest does something that greatly harms the public good and sins in a very public and horrible way, the church puts him under penalty and he cannot carry out his ministry as a priest. He cannot perform the liturgy (neither in public nor in private) and is said to be under the 'lay state' or we say that he's been reduced to the state of a layman. That being said, in a very specific condition, that priest could still administer some sacraments for the salvation of the soul. For instance, in the case there's someone on the brink of death who can't get an access to a regular Priest, the 'laycized' priest may administer the sacraments of confession and extreme unction to the person in need and it would be both valid and licit, given the state of necessity which that dying person is in.

[@joniclark8137]

And with you.

[@andreak9974]

Hi father. I so enjoy listening to you and love your channel. About confessions .... I am a lesbian. I’ve been in my relationship for 20 years married 13 years. I spoke with the priest. He has not allowed me take communion and basically had said if I was to pass I could not be blessed in church. This break my heart

[@blankblank8292]

What broke your heart? That your priest didn't allow you to receive Communion whilst continuing your homosexual relationship which is an abomination?

[@Ortho_pilgrim]

As one sinner to another, I tell you that your priest conveys to you the mercy of Christ in NOT allowing you to Commune unworthily unto condemnation under such circumstances. In obedience, humility, and charity, refrain from Holy Communion and giving scandal to your neighbor, and pray & wait on the Lord until He grants you the gift of Repentance, and true healing. Now is the acceptable time. Ask, and you shall receive. Knock, and it shall be opened to you. God bless you and Lord have mercy on us all. ☦️

[@cdimitriadis807114]

I'm Greek Orthodox and I think that quite often we forget our Orthodox Phronima .... what should make us Orthodox. I know from my Bible Studies that our Lord Jesus Christ chose to befriend despised people, heal the sick wherever he went and forgave those that had made big mistakes in life. And yet he spoke with unheard of authority! He crossed red lines when he took upon himself to forgive sins which God alone can do and 3 times he raised the dead. Christ had power but he shunned the powerful. He loved all loved on whom others looked down and he was not impressed with riches or the powerful. I think we collectively should be bring help and kindness to people and show humility and humbleness in this world. Let us not point fingers at others otherwise God might do the same to us.

[@johnsambo9379]

God loves but if you knowingly live a sinful life than god does punish. When you are truly saved then you will not be a lesbian.

[@xiomarasinnis7549]

@@Ortho_pilgrim very well said.

[@slowedkingishere]

Hello. If it was done publically doesnt it contradict the teachings of the bible since it says to be completely alone when asking for forgiveness?

[@HomoEucharistica]

Where it does say something like that? But even if it was said, there is also an order to confess our sins to one other (James 5:16), and it likely refers to the public confession.

[@aron88205]

Love this! Question I’ve always been curious about: I know that the clergy are not allowed to break the seal of confession but what happens when the one who confesses reveals that he/she has done something very serious i.e murder, abuse of an innocent etc. is the priest obligated to go to the authorities or does he still keep the confession confidential?

[@Православл]

aron88205 the priest will tell the person to go to the authorities and confess their crime or go to a person and confess their wrongdoing or else they will not be forgiven. This is for certain cases.

[@eduardoschiavon5652]

The priest would not break the seal of confession. However, the priest must abstain from giving the sinner absolution in the case the person's not truly sorry for her sins, i.e. not feeling truly sorry for having committed the sins, or mocking the situation and finding it funny. That being said, if the person is truly sorry, the priest must advise the person to give herself into authorities so that she wouldn't cause more harm.

[@eduardoschiavon5652]

God is infinitely just, and we should fear him for that, given that we are totally biased in evaluating our own lives. That being said, God is also infinitely merciful, so he can erase all sins, provided that the person is truly sorry for having committed them.

[@elisabethdakak878]

A man watched the movie The Passion of Christ" so he was a spectator. As a result of watching the movie, he turned himself in to the force autority for having caused a bomb explosion in a building. I remember not the man's country. God can touch a man in mysterious way 😊

[@MadMax31577]

@@elisabethdakak878 In the USA someone watched that movie and confessed to the police about a murder he had gotten away with years earlier.

[@eduardoa.c.4260]

Thanks for guiding me. Great video! I have a question, ¿In what parts of Mexico do you have churches?

[@eighty_more_or_less]

The background music is distracting....

[@billfay9412]

James 5:14-16 is anyone among you sick let them call the elders of the church to pray over them and anoint them with oil in the name of the Lord and the prayer offered in faith Will make The sick person well the Lord will raise them up if they have sin they will be forgiven therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed🙏🏻 The prayer of A righteous person is powerful and affective amen ✝️❤️🇬🇷

[@elisabethdakak878]

I will read the whole biblical text. Thank you for sharing

[@Aaron.T2005]

When is confession usually held in the Orthodox Church? Is it held before liturgy or something? Because when I went to my second ever liturgy, I saw a woman go up to a priest, have a quiet conversation and then he put a book on her head and read some prayer.

[@Trisagionfilms]

It seems that this is the practice among Russians, but it's mostly them who confess during liturgies. For the rest of the Orthodox world, that is a foreign concept. Confession is not done during a service. Now, if someone needs a sort of "emergency" confession, an exception can be made. Usually, it's done inside a church or chapel. It can be done anywhere, really, but usually in places where there are icons.

[@b.c.7741]

🙏☦🙂

[@nmoriss]

Protestants say there is no need for a priest’s intervention in confessing sins - that a man’s relationship with God is direct. Where is the scriptural direction on this ?

[@someguy9571]

Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working. James 5:16

[@someguy9571]

As for a relationship with God being personal, it is, but not strictly personal or direct. This is where Protestants get it very wrong; it's not just "me, Jesus, and my Bible". Christ established a Church of which we are called to be members of. We cannot be Christians apart from the Church. For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body-Jews or Greeks, slaves or free-and all were made to drink of one Spirit. For the body does not consist of one member but of many. If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body," that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body," that would not make it any less a part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell? But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose. If all were a single member, where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts, yet one body. The eye cannot say to the hand, "I have no need of you," nor again the head to the feet, "I have no need of you." ...Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. 1 Corinthians 12:12‭-‬21‭, ‬27

[@paulbrule5897]

When Jesus sent the apostles to preach he gave them the power to forgive sins in His name. The priest is the inheritor of the apostolic charges

[@johnmavroudis1518]

John 20, (22-23) also see Jacob 5, (14-16)

[@thelonelysponge5029]

Not all protestants are like that.

[@tessalogan586]

Is smoking a sin?????

[@eduardoschiavon5652]

I'm no teologian, but I guess it depends. Any vicious behavior leads us away from God, because in one way or another it places the most importance in earthly/material pleasures rather than on God. That being said, any vice per se is a great danger to the soul and can lead to damnation. Drinking, for instance, is not a sin. It isn't a morally good thing to do, but it's also not a bad one. So, in fact, it's neutral, but depending on your relationship to drinking, it may lead into a vice and thus become a sin. With cigarettes I believe it would work in the same way. The key idea here is moderation and exercising our virtue of prudence (assuming that we have acquired it by knowing the basic aspects of the faith, by regularly attending the sacraments and by constantly praying). That being said though, I don't smoke myself but I definitely see many people who are smokers not smoking in any controlled manner whatsoever. So that's something to take in as well, we may become addicted to smoking without necessarily wanting to and it could lead to great spiritual harm. All of this has to do specifically with cigarettes as they have the most addictive power (amongst licit substances of course). Perhaps a cigar would be a different case. As a lot of people smoke cigars much less frequently.

[@liquidoxygen819]

Cigarettes are awful but having a cigar or some pipe tobacco is fine, totally fine

[@nikolalegend4868]

Yes it is a sin it’s believed that the same way there is Incense in church that the smoke for cigarettes is incense from the devil

[@liftism9367]

@@vellabella917 yoga speaks of harnessing energies in a weird way it is openly satanic

[@onyou1117]

​@@vellabella917I think so. The demons use yoga as a weapon against believers. I believe its a form of sun/solar deity worship.