1. QUESTION Father, much has been written about the engraving and chip that people will be forced to put on their bodies in the time of the Antichrist. What would you tell us about this issue, which concerns us all? The human body is one of the most magnificent wonders of God's Creation. I can say that it is unique in all of God's creation. So God wanted to be our body , in which he would place our immortal soul , His Temple , to be worshiped there by all of us, His children, as a king God the Father . The Holy Bible says that we are " the temple of the living God ". Satan cannot win a man's soul unless he first wins his body. That is why he tries in a thousand ways to contaminate our body, so that it ceases to be " God's temple " and can thus dominate it . Until now, Satan has been trying to dominate man by using his human weaknesses. Thus he made man susceptible to many and various great sins such as immorality , drugs , murder , witchcraft , and many others. However, every time that man repented of his mistakes and God forgave him, the binds and his plans. So Satan was looking for another way to control completely the mind of man, and to be able to better direct , control and dominate man's thoughts , desires and feelings . found the way . With the artificial intelligence of computers and a series of specific specialized vaccines, it will interfere with the chain of the human genetic code , the DNA, and change it . Thus, the now mutated human DNA instead of acting under Divine Intelligence , as God created it, will now act under the orders of artificial intelligence , which will be directed by the satanic staff of the Antichrist! In fact, in order to better control each person individually, some elements of the code in the mutated human DNA will form the necessary basis to create an identity, an exclusive identity, with a personal number , which will be unique for each person. This personal number on the DNA of each person will now be indelible , permanent and irrevocable. This number of man, with the number 666 preceding it, will indicate to whom this man belongs and with it he will be registered in the central supercomputer of the Antichrist, the famous " Beast ", with which all the rest of his computers will be connected satanic antichrist state. In order for all computers to easily read this human number, a shortcut icon will be created on the surface of the human body, on the forehead and on the hand . Every human activity , such as saving , buying , selling , and in general every action , will be completely controlled and dependent on his specific personal number . It will be his official ID . Without that number, that person simply wouldn't exist . plan in the first phase is to turn the human body into a mobile transceiver , just like a mobile phone is , so that he can easily dominate it. 2. QUESTION How will man be transformed into a mobile transceiver, "a mobile phone"? To build a house one needs two things. The materials that will be needed for the construction and the appropriate technicians that will work to build and perfect it. As for the materials needed to build the new human mutant DNA, Satan made sure to slowly and cunningly collect them gradually in the human body. He transferred them to our body through what we eat , drink and breathe , which he had previously contaminated with various invisible to the eye materials , of high nanotechnology . Then, a series of 7 specially specialized vaccines will play the role of 7 specialized technicians who will undertake to make the new mutated human DNA, with the materials that have already entered the human body. The purpose of the 7 vaccines will be to weaken and in the end cancel the possibility of man to become, through the 7 gifts of the Holy Spirit, the " temple of God ". The most important of the seven vaccines will be the seventh . The seventh vaccine will be the crown of nanotechnology , since it will be introduced , without any reversal , into the final mutated human DNA, the element that will incorporate the necessary code on which the number - seal of each person will be written. I must repeat that restoring human DNA to its original state will now be impossible, therefore those who take the satanic " sealing " will be captive for life to the most destructive decision for their existence. This number will not be something visible that can be removed from the human body but something invisible since it will be one with the DNA of the person , that is, his very life . This number will then be connected to a supercomputer, the famous " Beast ", which will be operated by the Antichrist himself and his people, who will also exercise absolute power. With the help of artificial intelligence , which will have developed to such a strong point that it is now deified by people, the Antichrist and his demonic staff will be able to control , dominate and direct thoughts , decisions , desires and the feelings of each person. Every form of different thought or reaction will be made known through the technical intelligence of the " Beast " and the demonic staffs of the Antichrist, will decide the death or, at best, the erasure of the existence of the particular human transceiver . 3. QUESTION Who are they who will help satan carry out his plan to destroy man? Lucifer in recent years has managed to place many satanic people devoted to him in key positions of the world's threefold power , i.e. politics , science and religion . Thus Lucifer will be able to rule: 1. Politics, through the bankers who control the money and determine the political decisions. 2. Science, through satanic scientists who make weapons, infectious viruses and other satanic constructs capable of destroying man and God's Creation. 3.Religion , through religious leaders subordinate to him, which he slowly took care to raise to leadership positions in the church. His religious leaders are willing to obey , implement and promote easily and without resistance , his antichrist plans and laws. In fact, they are the only ones who can easily, under the pretext of the virtue of " obedience ", seduce the multitude of the people, as their leaders and " shepherds ". One of the most important actions of Lucifer will be to convince all these religious leaders to unite, for the sake of so-called universal love and peace , in a universal religious unity, the " World Church ". Thus, in order for the Antichrist to be believed and accepted in the Christian world, he will use, as the Apocalypse of John says, as his partner the False Prophet , the satanic man who will lead the Universal Church at that time . He, as the leader of the Church, will try to convince all Christians to receive the final sealing of the supposedly real "Christ", i.e. the Antichrist . 4. QUESTION Has this all started? Yes , but they are still in the early stages. We are now in the experimental phase of vaccines. Before the appearance of those seven special and specialized vaccines, which will build the new mutant DNA of humans, a series of experimental vaccines will first be tested on millions of people with uncontrolled and dangerous side effects. Some of these, because they will interfere with the chain of the genetic code of human DNA, will cause the natural self-defense of DNA, resulting in new powerful diseases. These will be, for a long time, incurable . Doctors will not be able to easily find a cure for these diseases, resulting in millions of people dying. Before the final stamping, which will be done on the human DNA itself , there will first be a global effort to give all people a personal number . This number will not be the actual " engraving ", but a protector of it, in order to acquaint man with the final " engraving-seal ". a document at first , on cards and other legal papers, and then, to make it more functional in government services, so that it can be easily found and read by the computers of the technical services, it will become digital . So, all governments will give all their citizens a personal number , with which they will be able to carry out all their necessary activities , which will concern either their relationship with the state , such as identity cards, taxation and others, or their survival , such as buying and selling. Then, with the help of artificial intelligence , all the numbers of these people will be connected to a central global supercomputer , the " Beast ". Thus, within the "Beast" all the people of the world will be registered and recorded , with all their personal information . As a pretext, for this great world argument, they will tell the whole world that it is the only way to better ensure world peace and the suppression of all illegal and terrorist acts. However, their ultimate secret goal and purpose is to know and precisely control all the people who will have to pass to the next and final stage of the final " sealing ", with which the Antichrist will now know all subjects of. 5. QUESTION How can we Christians react to all this? Is there an antidote that can neutralize the power of these satanic constructs? The days we live in are very wicked indeed. Tests to make the new mutant human DNA have begun . Artificial intelligence is advancing at full speed and humans are unaware or want to be unaware and indifferent to what is happening. Lucifer managed to convince people that he cares about their health, so that they would easily accept his experiments. Whether we will make ourselves the Temple of God or the temple of Satan is our choice . It is up to us whether we will remain united with God the Father, as His children, or whether we will run away from Him and join the camp of Lucifer. We are free to choose but also to shoulder the consequences of our decisions . Those of us who choose to remain faithful to Christ and His holy Church must be ready to take up the cross of confession , even martyrdom . Our era will highlight the greatest saints of the Church. Regarding all those high nanotechnology materials that are sneakily and unknowingly introduced into our bodies, like satanic poison , with what we eat , drink and breathe to contaminate us, I should emphasize that there is an antidote . As every poison has its antidote , so our holy Church has the appropriate antidotes for them . The problem, however, with the antidotes available to our Church is that they presuppose two basic spiritual elements on the part of people, so that their " power " can be activated . They presuppose " faith " and " trust " in God, something, however, that you no longer easily find among Christians. The main antidote proposed by our holy Church is Holy Communion , that is, Christ himself. The energy of these dangerous high nanotechnology materials is neutralized with the Holy Communion , which will not only act therapeutically but also deterrently , since it will not allow artificial intelligence to intervene in the chain of human DNA, to " engrave " and make the mutation of those initial elements which the divine intelligence with infinite " Wisdom " has defined! In the case of Holy Communion, the penetrating power of the Holy Spirit is decisive. The Holy Spirit himself intervenes to preserve the Divine Will ! Sanctification is also a powerful antidote , especially the " great Sanctification of Epiphanies ", because it does not allow Satan and the artificial intelligence controlled by him to carry out his projects and plans. The sign of the Holy Cross has always been the great fear of demons. Our Church has many stories, mainly from the lives of our saints, that the honest Cross abolished the power of the poison with which the holy martyrs were watered to die. Whenever they made the sign of the Cross, the poison lost its power and could not cause the death of the holy martyr. Of course, we must not forget that these holy Christians had deep faith and great love for our Christ, since for His sake they gave up everything, in order not to betray and deny Christ! The daily prayer to God and especially to the Holy Spirit , when it is done with deep repentance and humility for our mistakes but also divine love in our heart for God our Father, is also a very powerful medicine against every satanic attack. Heartfelt prayer greatly attracts divine Grace, and creates a divine protection around the body and soul of the praying person. This divine protective armor prevents any form of satanic communication that attempts to offend the human body and soul , with the powerful spiritual interference it causes. Another great and important action of the holy prayer is that it will enlighten the mind of the humble person and will reveal to him, with the grace of the Holy Spirit, the truth of his choices and of the events that will happen. This awesome power of prayer to reveal the truth to the one who prays, will prove to be a very important help to the Christians of the last days, where the Antichrist and his followers will dominate everywhere. The man who is faithful to God, enlightened by the Holy Spirit, will be able to feel and in many cases even see the truth about a person, whether it is God's or Satan's. This will help many devout Christians to discern which spiritual leaders of the Church are following the true Christ and which are the Antichrist ! chaff will be separated from the wheat and the unworthy church leaders will be revealed , as well as the holy church fathers and teachers, so that Christians will know who they should trust and follow and who they should not. The straw will constitute the ecclesiastical leadership of the " World Church ", which will belong to the Antichrist and will be managed by his friend and associate the False Prophet , as the Apocalypse of John states. The wheat will consist of holy ecclesiastical men who will staff the " Catacomb Church " of the end times. Praying Christians by God's revelation will recognize who will be the chaff and who the wheat, so that they will know who will be those holy fathers and teachers whom they should hereafter trust and follow. 6. QUESTION How close are all these things that you have told us in such detail? All this has begun and will culminate in the very near future. Satan is of course in a hurry to take over the reins of world power through his own son the Antichrist . That is why he moves insidiously, with great guile and covertly, at all levels of power, in order to immediately become the " world leader ". God, however, still for a while, does not allow it , because people are ignorant of the whole truth , so that they can choose freely and on their own, the one they will believe and follow. great mercy to man, who does not want any human soul to perish in the darkness of Hades and hell, will allow three great events to occur that will help the whole world first to ponder and then to decide freely the most important choice in human history. One fact has to do with everything that will happen from here on out with human health , which will continue to undergo multiple catastrophic operations due to some experimental pharmaceutical preparations that will promise life and health but will cause a multitude of side effects, even death . The second event will be related to the unrestrained desire of some satanic leaders , who in their attempt to lead the whole world, will cause a global conflict with incalculable global disasters . The third event will be the revolution of nature itself in the satanic Christian states but also in the whole world that reacts to the true God, as a last attempt of the horse nature to awaken the man hypnotized by Satan, so that he comes to his senses, repents and to stop his impending destruction. In short, I can say that: a chain of very large natural disasters will change the very structure of the Earth, while the specter of hunger, thirst, disease, and despair will overshadow the entire planet. Therefore, if a man becomes concerned and realizes his mistake, through all that will happen, immediately everything will change for the better and the destructive course of himself and nature will stop. If, however, he persists in his selfish course and lets Satan be his lord and god, and willingly accepts Satan's mark and seal, then greater and more terrible world-catastrophic events will occur, causing death and incalculable numbers of people. These terrible world events are mentioned in the Apocalypse of Saint John. 7. QUESTION Who is this Antichrist, who will disrupt the life of the whole world? He is the son of Satan, who will be born from a woman in intercourse with Lucifer himself during a satanic ceremony. He will live in secret at first and from there he will direct the world leaders devoted to him, whom he himself raised to power. At the right time, he will ascend to political power. The charm of his satanic thinking, his rhetorical skill, and his imposition on all the leaders and peoples of the earth will be so strong that it will charm the entire planet. As a first act of impressment, the Antichrist will stop all the wars, which he has so far secretly directed. He will be proclaimed " prince of peace " and all the heads of state will hand over to him the power of their peoples. From that moment on the Antichrist will dominate me with absolute power over everything and with the help of perfected artificial intelligence, it will control everyone and everything. With the help of demons and artificial intelligence, he will even perform various artificially believable miracles, which he himself will project to the whole world to convince them that he is a god. That he is the real Christ who came to earth to save all people. The world church, which will already be ruled by his personal friend and satanic man, the False Prophet, will accept him as a man of God, as a prophet, and as a savior of the world. Then it will be officially disputed that our Lord Jesus Christ is the true Messiah of the world and that title of Messiah will be given to the Antichrist. the greatest and most ruthless persecution of the true Christ and Christians will reach its climax. All the religions of the world will recognize his supernatural powers and will accept him as their savior and god, therefore they will accept to take of their own will his own satanic seal, with which they will secure eternal faith in him and obedience. However, the real Christians who, with the help of God, will remain faithful to the one and true Son of God, our Lord Jesus Christ, will not accept this sealing, even if they have to give their own lives. For their faith, God will intervene miraculously, to protect them and give them the necessities for their survival. The Christians at that time will get their strength with the help of the Holy Spirit from the study of the Holy Scriptures, Holy Communion, and the wishes of their holy spiritual fathers. For this reason, the Antichrist and his followers will fight these three forces. They will attempt to rewrite the Holy Scriptures as they see fit. They will persecute on trifling occasions the reverend those spiritual fathers who oppose them. They will fight the Holy Communion in every way, so that people do not partake, until the moment when they will definitively abolish it and all the other " Mysteries " of the Church. The awesome power of Holy Communion is well known to Lucifer and his demons. He knows that as long as it is held in the holy Churches and reverently attended by the people, he and his demonic plans will not be successfully promoted and he will not be able to come as a world leader and messiah. The sign of his coming will be the abolition of Holy Communion. For this reason, from now on we will all see and live the great and terrible war that Lucifer will start against the Holy Communion, through his own politicians, scientists, and also, unfortunately, church leaders. To begin with, the immaculate Christ in Holy Communion will be accused by politicians and scientists of being able to contaminate and transfer diseases to the people. The confirmation of these satanic accusations through the condescension of little-faithful priests will mark the official beginning of the great persecution of Christ and His holy Church. Changing the way Christians attend will be the second sacrilegious step against the Holy Communion and the transformation of the Holy Communion into a solid form will constitute the third satanic effort of the spirits of darkness. In the last and most powerful attack against the Holy Communion, before its final cessation which will take place with the appearance of the Antichrist, it will be disputed that the Holy Communion is the Body and Blood of Christ but will be considered a " substitute ". We have entered, my child, into a strange period that I could confidently describe as the beginning of the eschatological times. It is the period when even the elect will go astray, as the Bible says. I wish that the Holy Spirit will enlighten us all so that we can understand the cunning of Satan and that we all remain faithful to our Lord Jesus Christ, the true Messiah of the world

Friday, March 10, 2023

SINFUL EXCUSES-To confess our sins to the icon of Christ is not the correct way of confession.


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
Unfortunately, there are many people, who for different reasons, refuse to go to the confessor, to cleanse their sins with a confession. The basic reasons for their refusal are mainly:
-because they feel ashamed in front of the priest,
-because they have a high social status and their pride does not permit them to be humbled,
-because they have committed great sins and feel ashamed to talk about them, being fearful lest they ruin their reputation.
In order to avoid confession, they put forward various sinful excuses like:
-"Why should I tell my sins to the priest, isn't it better to confess them before Christ's icon?"
Others say:
"Why should I tell my sins to the priest, as he himself is also a sinner?"
Others, finally, are resigned to the idea that they haven't committed any sins or they have plenty of time to repent and make many excuses, which the Devil suggests to them, to not allow them to get close to Christ through repentance and be saved.
Furthermore, we will try to disprove, with the grace of God, all these satanic excuses, so we can see with joy all those of our brothers who are risking their salvation, humbly return to unique joy and peace, our Christ.
1."Why should I tell my sins to the priest, isn't it better to tell them before Christ's icon?"
It is a fact that our Christ is omnipresent and wherever we are He listens to our prayers and sees our repentance. But to receive the forgiveness of our sins, we must go with simplicity and humility to His representative, the priest confessor, to tell him our sins. And not be filled with selfishness, something that God detests very much, and shame because we don't want to be humbled by the confessor, we resort to a lifeless icon to confess our sins.
To confess our sins to the icon of Christ is not the correct way of confession. And because, my brother, I see that you are still not convinced, I will explain to you more clearly why.
Firstly, our Lord did not give the divine authority to forgive sins to icons or other inanimate things, but He gave it to His Apostles and thereafter to their successors by saying:
“…Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.” (John 20: 19-23)
Consequently, as you can see, since only they have the right to forgive us, we are obliged for the love of our Christ, to go to the spiritual confessor and there, with humility and with contrition of heart to open our souls full of sins and to let the cunning snakes of sin slide on to the priest’s stole, because as Saint John the Theologian says:
“If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” (The First Epistle of John 1:9)
Another reason why our Christ does not want us to resort to an inanimate icon, but to His priest, is the following:
The icon is not able to talk to us and advise us, and cannot help us to get away from the tangled tentacles of sin. The icon can neither forgive us nor assure us that God has forgiven us.
It is as if, when we are burning up with a fever and are very sick, we resort to a photograph of our friendly doctor and ask it to cure us. But is this possible for the correct cure, without us personally going to visit our doctor at his clinic, to examine us and make the correct diagnosis and give us the necessary medicines?
Also in this instance, we must go personally to the clinic of our soul, that is the confessional. There, kneeling humbly before the priest confessor, let's remove the thorns and thistles of our sins from our wounded souls, so we can hear the voice of our Christ, through the mouth of the priest confessor granting us forgiveness for our sins and restoring peace and joy in us.
2. "Why should I tell my sins to the priest, as he himself is also a sinner?"
My brother, as it is mentioned in the Holy Gospel, there is no man on earth who is not a sinner. Everyone in this world is sinful. We all need to confess, even us the priests, as we all live in this world full of difficulties and temptations.
But we should consider that, when we go to a hospital to be cured of our illness, we aren't concerned whether the doctor that takes care of us is a saint or a sinner.
Do we check the moral principles of the driver, when we make a journey by any means of transport? Of course not. We are only concerned about getting to our destination.
Another example:
Can you tell me, if the freshness and tender sweet smell of a rose is increased or decreased depending on whether it is offered to you by a beggar or a rich man, a saint or a sinner? Of course not.
Exactly the same applies here, whether the priest is a saint or a sinner, you will get God's blessing in full, which will make you His child and an heir of Paradise.
2.      I have no sins.
There is another category of people who, when I speak to them about confession, react and protest and tell me:
“What can I say to the priest, since I have no sins? Neither have I stolen, nor prostituted me, nor committed murder, nor have I wronged anybody”.
And I, the humble priest, sorry for their ignorance of the Holy Bible’s teaching, I beg them to devote two minutes of their time and listen to what the Gospel says, although it would be better for them to read it at least once a year. First, the Evangelist John, the Theologian, comes to proclaim:
“If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us” and continues:
“If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us”. (The First Epistle of John 1:8, 10)
Apostle Paul pointed out:
“For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,” (Epistle to Romans 3:23).
Finally, Apostle James says:
“Because we all are at fault in many cases”. (James 3:2)
Faced with what the Apostles and Saints say, that we are all sinners, how can you my brother claim that you are without sin, a saint, since:
 “There is only One Saint, only One Lord, our Jesus Christ…”.
But even if you have committed only one sin, whether it is big or small, it is enough to separate you from the love of God and lead you to hell.  I emphasize again "whether it is big or small". Because whether you call the demon a devil or a little devil, he is still a cunning demon, able to separate you from the sweetest companionship of Christ.
That's why, my brother, you should remove from within you every kind of these excuses, that supposedly you have no sins. Examine yourself well and see where you have committed mistakes. 
 Like the prodigal son, holding your sins in your hands and repentance in your heart, come to Christ, who awaits you at the confessional like the compassionate Father of the prodigal son. There, with humility and contrition, admit all your sins to Christ and ask Him to forgive you and help you become worthy of being His child.
Then you will see our Father God bending down with joy, together with all His angels, to change your dirty clothing of sin, with other new clothes of virtue, and to put the ring of adoption on your finger, recognizing you as His child. Then He will slaughter a fatted calf for you, to give you through Holy Communion, the Body, and Blood of His only begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, to live from now on in Christ and Christ within you!
4. I still have plenty of time
The cunning demon seeing you now, my brother, advancing towards the confessional, is distressed because he is losing you, and look what he's going to do. He stops you and says to you:
"Well, my friend, don't be in such a hurry, I didn't tell you not to confess! I want to confess too, says the evil demon, but wait a moment, don't run so quickly, think again about what you are doing. Aren't you ashamed that with what you will say, you will be humbled? After all said and done, you are not old yet, you still have plenty of time! ..."
With these words and many more, the evil demon comes to make his sometime friend, my brother, have doubts and traps you with the excuse that you still have plenty of time.
His purpose is, on the one hand, to erase the preference you have now to be saved, and on the other hand, for death to come suddenly without you being able, because of the continuous postponement of your confessions, to purify your soul from the various impurities of your sins.
No, my brother, no, you should not be entrapped by our enemy, but without further delay, run to the confessor and remove the thorns of your sins there, thus to be able like a pure white innocent dove to fly to new horizons, new spiritual worlds, full of light, glory, joy, and peace.
ADVICE ON HOW WE SHOULD CONFESS
1. With remorse in our hearts and the decision to reform
Remorse in your heart is the necessary prerequisite for the Sacrament of Repentance, because only then God accepts every sinner, in the same way, that the very merciful father accepted his prodigal son, when he returned with a remorseful heart from the exile of sin, begging not to be returned to his previous position, but to the lowest, as a paid laborer. Seeing his son’s remorse, how could this wonderful father not give him the golden ring which would return him to his original position and put him again next to him, as the heir to his fortune?
The passage in the Gospel about the Prodigal Son shows us how we must also approach the Confession and our merciful Christ. Our Lord invites us, with remorse in our hearts, sincerity, and without excuses to proceed humbly, like the Prodigal Son, with a firm decision not to again repeat these sins and say to Him:
"Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight, and am no longer worthy to be called your son". (Luke 15:21)
"Accept me Father because I repent bitterly, have mercy on me, my God".
Allow the eyes of your soul with tears of repentance to wash the feet of our Christ which are wounded by the nails of your sin. Then and only then, you will see our Christ bend down like a father with much affection and love, to take you in His arms and hide you in His divine most merciful heart. I see also, my brother, in this sweet scene and I am touched. I remember something that our Christ once told us,:
"With the same infinite love that My Father loves me, I love you. Remain in my love".
"As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you: abide in My love." (John 15:9)
2. Without shame
Shame is a difficult part of confession, which usually affects a lot of people who have committed great sins.
Many times it is so powerful that it manages to stop a man from confessing, or doesn't allow him to tell his confessor all his sins, but he hides some, with the result that the miserable man is penalized more because he dared to mock and play with God.
In the texts of the Fathers of the Church, there is a very nice story about the devastating effects of shame in confession.


Once upon a time somewhere in Palestine, there lived a really saintly ascetic with his submissive monk. Because the reputation of the holy man had spread everywhere, a lot of people were coming to him for advice and to confess.
Once a woman decided to go to him because she had committed a very serious sin and was inconsolable. Indeed, she went to the elder ascetic and begged him with tears to confess to him. He, having asked his submissive monk to leave and go into the garden, started to hear the woman's confession.
But then, the following happened. The elder's submissive monk, who it seems was also a saintly man, saw in a vision, that while the woman was confessing, various small snakes were coming out of her mouth. Suddenly a huge snake appeared which, while about to come out of her mouth, went back in again. Finally, not only did it not come out but when it re-entered, it took with it all the other snakes which had come out.
When the woman left, and when she was a short distance from the hermitage, this submissive monk went to the elder and told him what he had seen. He immediately realized that the woman, who confessed before him a short while ago, had not told him everything but had hidden a great sin. Immediately, then, he sent his submissive monk to go to call her back, before she was too far from the hermitage.
The submissive monk ran really quickly to catch up with her, but he was very surprised when he found her dead on the roadside, not far from the hermitage. He returned to the elder and told him about it. The elder wondered if her soul was saved because she was ashamed to confess the great sin which she had committed, he knelt with his submissive monk in deep prayer for three days and nights, for God to reveal to him if finally her soul was saved. On the last night, they both saw this woman in their sleep, black, gloomy, and ugly, crying and lamenting and saying:
-Ah! What happened to me this wretched woman. Because I was ashamed to tell my great sin, I am now eternally damned.
That is what this wretched woman was saying, who because of a little shame lost Christ and the eternal joy of Heaven!
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But you, my brother, should not imitate this woman. Without shame, sit in front of the representative of Christ and confess all your sins, starting first with the big ones. This will immediately hit the devil on the head. Then continue with the smaller ones, which are, however, equally terrible for your soul.
3. Without Excuses
It is very important, my brother, at the time we will come to the confessional to be aware of the evil caused by our sins, either to our brothers, or to ourselves, and to tell our sins without excuses.
Shame at the time of our confession makes us use a lot of excuses and explanations to justify ourselves before the spiritual father. So we blame others for our sins. In this way, without realizing it we fall into the sin of slander and condemnation against our brother, making Satan rejoice even at the time of our confession.
Let us never forget that excuses removed the protoplast from Paradise.
IS MAN FORGIVEN ONLY
WITH THE PRAYER OF FORGIVENESS?
Many Christians have the bad habit of not confessing, but instead of going to confession, they go to the priest to only read them the Prayer of Forgiveness.
This is a bad habit that must be completely eliminated.
The Prayer of Forgiveness is, we would say, the decision of our Christ, Who, after hearing our sins, now gives us forgiveness and cleanses our souls from them.
Is it possible for the judge to give a judgment of acquittal or conviction without first having heard the accused? Certainly not.
How, then, can we go to the priest, to give us Christ's forgiveness, when we have not confessed our sins and do not acknowledge our faults so that our Christ sees our repentance and forgives us?
For this reason, let's stop the faithful from going to the priest to only read them the prayer, and the priests to stop providing such Prayers of Forgiveness without first hearing the confession of the faithful.
THE APPROPRIATE SPIRITUAL FATHER
In this world, there are thousands of doctors. Among them, there are some with more experience. They are able to make the correct diagnosis, give the proper medications, and recommend treatment.
Similarly, among the many spiritual confessors available, you, my brother, will go to those who have the reputation of a good spiritual doctor, so that you can confidently tell them the sins you have committed and what is tormenting you. This will enable them to help you properly, by raising you from the filth of sin and giving you the appropriate medications, that is, the advice and penances, which are not a punishment, but a way to remove you from sin.
Only a good spiritual doctor is able to help you and show you the way to Heaven. When you learn where such an experienced spiritual father is, don't waste any time and use all your time, money, and effort until you find him.
Nothing was more important to the early Christians than finding a good spiritual father. There are in the texts of the Fathers of the Church many stories of sinful men, who made great journeys and great efforts, searching to find a suitable spiritual mentor.
If for our bodies, when we are seriously ill, we make many journeys in order to be healed, what should we do for our soul when it becomes sick from terrible sins? Shouldn't we run, struggle and fight, travel, and search for good doctors to heal our souls?
HOW MANY TIMES MUST WE CONFESS?
Every man, my brother, when he is dirty goes immediately to have a bath and wash his clothes. In the same way, when we commit any sin and the pure white garment of our soul is soiled with black stains of lawlessness, immediately, without delay, we should run to our confessor, to clean the filth from our soul and allow our Lord to dress us in new bright clothes again!
We need to immediately run to our spiritual father because if we allow our souls to remain dirty, it will get dirtier and there is a danger that our souls will become a site of uncontrollable spiritual infectious diseases and a den of evil demons, that whatever they are ordering us to do we, like their faithful servants, will do. That's why you should not neglect your soul, and do not underestimate the power of a small sin because, as the proverb say: "Look after the pennies, and the pounds will look after themselves”. Because one by one we will collect many sins and it will be very difficult to clean our souls of all these sins. So, if you stop each small sin, as they are committed, they won't grow into big ones and it will be easier than cleaning our soul from lots of sins.  It is much easier to wash clothes when they are slightly dirty than when they are extremely dirty, isn't it?
Consequently, go to Confession frequently, every time some dirt dares to soil the beautiful Christian garment of your soul. It is difficult to uproot an old tree. So, while sin is still a young shoot, we must weed it out from the garden of our souls.
WHAT SHOULD WE CONFESS
My brother, to help you, in your confession, I will give you a short list of sins, and having it in front of you will note what sins you've committed. So, you will not forget any of them, when you will be before the priest and begin to confess.

Pride with its intricate tentacles, such as selfishness, vanity, greed, and jealousy. Condemnation, scandals, slander, gossip, flattery. Anger, rage, envy, hate, dislike, ruthlessness, malevolence, cursing.
Heresy (Protestantism, believing in the millennium of Christ, etc.).
Resorting to sorcery, mediums, witches, fortune tellers, and coffee cup readers. Sin is also the horseshoe, garlic, and so-called "eyes" that some people hang on themselves, in their homes, cars, and on their babies, not to be affected by the supposedly evil eye. The Cross of our Lord is the only talisman and our only weapon against any demonic offense.
Being ashamed to reveal our faith and our devoutness in front of others. Grumbling against God for our various afflictions.
Blasphemy of the divine laws.  It is a great sin to utter blasphemies about God, Christ, the Virgin Mary, the Saints, and every sacred thing. It is also blasphemy and a great sin to damn people or for parents to damn their children. How many children have been possessed by an evil spirit by the blasphemies of their parents! The writer of this article has been a witness to many such events with his own eyes. For this reason, you parents, stop blaspheming and cursing your children and do not give a reason for the demon to enter your homes.
One of the most deadly sins is considered receiving the Sacrament of Holy Communion, namely, the Body and Blood of our Christ, without the appropriate preparation, specifically when, we have committed great sins and carnal ones, without having first confessed them, before receiving Holy Communion.
Contempt of the holy fasting without reason. Disrespect to parents, teachers, and elders. Attempted suicide.
Misleading people with words and bad examples. Urging someone to commit sins.
Attending obscene sights and sounds at the theater, on television, and in films. Reading books or magazines with obscene content. Voyeurism and allowing ugly and obscene images to remain in our thoughts, without trying to forget them. Profanity. Indecent and provocative clothing. Passions that insult the image of God (such as smoking, drunkenness, drugs, etc.)
Civil marriage. Various carnal offenses, such as prostitution, adultery, masturbation, sexual perversions, and anomalies. These are included carnal relations between engaged couples, as the Sacrament of Marriage has not yet taken place. Other sins are gambling, theft, injustice, unfaithfulness, greediness, laziness, gluttony, the false oath or vow without reason, lying, and murder. Murder also includes intentional abortion. Let's not forget another major sin, namely, the scandalous interference of in-laws and other persons in the internal affairs of married couples and particularly young couples, resulting in disruption or sometimes, even the dissolution of the marriage of young couples.
I left, my brother, for last the greatest sin which is pointedly ignoring the existence of God and being ashamed to speak about Him, forgetting that He is the Creator of the world and the real Father of our souls. Also, sin is not going to church, without a good reason, on Sundays, or major holidays of our church and not regularly receiving Holy Communion.
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My brother, I have quoted here a small, short list of sins. Study it carefully and make a note on a sheet of paper, so you don't forget which of them you have committed as a weak man. Try to remember, in case you have committed any other sin, which is not mentioned here.
With all the sins in your hand, without excuses and deep repentance, run to your spiritual confessor without delay and leave your sins there, on the priest's stole, in order to be worthy of the heavenly Kingdom of God and our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

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