Every Orthodox person knows that the life of the believer who regularly attend worship services, unthinkable without regular confession and communion.However, for people just walk on the path of orthodoxy, many of the rules seem complicated and confusing.How to prepare for confession?What prayers before confession?Or maybe there are some canons?
Confession Confession - this is one of the sacraments of the Orthodox Church.During confession, supernatural and incomprehensible to the human mind takes way the forgiveness of sins, in which a man confessed to the priest.Confession precedes Communion, still one of the sacraments, one of the most important.Children under 7 years of age can not receive communion confession, but adults to Communion without confession is not allowed.
What prayers read before confession?In fact, there is no strict rule subtraction of any particular prayers before confession is in contrast to the Sacrament, which simply need to read the prayer, preparing and tuning man on a sacrament.Before confession important to something else.What exactly?
Prerequisites for confession
To confession really was what was expected of her, and not some random episode in a person's life, it should be approached deliberately and seriously.Prayer before confession is necessary, for that matter, even a prayer in the life of an Orthodox Christian.First of all, the man proceeds to confession should be aware of their sins, repent of them and have a strong desire not to repeat them.
Like all does not sound too difficult, but sometimes it is very difficult to fulfill these three rules, rather than simply deduct certain canons before confession.The cause of these difficulties lies in the fact that we have lost the Orthodox faith, and several generations lived before us, not having faith that the detrimental impact on the spiritual life of the entire people.Spiritual life is extremely difficult, which is why many people do not even try to start living it.
awareness of sin
If you ask anyone, they'll tell you: of course, the necessity of prayer before confession.Orthodoxy says that prayer is needed believer constantly, not only in this case.Every step of his people, whose opinion is directed to God must be compared with the will of God, asking for his blessing to any undertaking.
And before confession is necessary, first of all, to remember their sins and realize that they really are them.Many people, consciously or unconsciously do not believe this or that sin is sin.Some people just are not familiar with the orthodox teachings and do not even know that what they do - sin.They think that the prayer before confession - more than enough, and without a drop of doubt as to the correctness, go to confession.In fact, this is not good.On the contrary, it is detrimental to the human soul.These people just grow into the lawyers who think that the Orthodox prayer before confession would save them.However, we all know that the Lord Jesus Christ rebuked the scribes and Pharisees, and the wise thief, hanging close to the crucified Savior first came to him in heaven, although never read a special prayer.The only point is that the thief realized his sin and realized repented of it.
Repentance Repentance - is the next step necessary to ensure that the confession was made unto salvation of man, not his death.Without repentance Orthodox Christian life in general can not be called correctly.The whole life of believers should be repentance is permeated.Every morning, you need to wake up in the heart of repentance and just fall asleep.Without repentance can not be our salvation, and the repentant thief gave us an example of how repentance can save a person's soul.But the life of the robber was very far from perfect!We do not know how many crimes he had committed, but most likely, a lot, otherwise it is not subjected to such a terrible and shameful death.
Besides repentance, should still be a desire not to repeat the sins committed forward.Every believer knows how crafty his heart, and that to trust your feelings and thoughts dangerous.However, at the time of the confession must be a strong desire not to repeat their sins, even if there is no clear certainty that they will not be repeated.
Prayer before confession is necessary because it sets up a man in the desired fashion, as does the musician before the performance of musical works.Generally, prayer - is that the believer is necessary as air, no matter confession before or after it.Praying is necessary as you are accustomed to using the prayers that you use every day, such as "Mother of God", "Our Father," "I believe," the prayer to the Guardian Angel, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Holy Communion
When the confession was over, the man waiting in front of the Communion.This is one of the seven sacraments of the Orthodox Church, a very important and necessary.During the Communion there is a connection with the person of Christ, the human body becomes His body and blood of man - the blood of Christ.It is advisable to take communion regularly because this sacrament helps a believer to cope with the temptations that constantly occur in the way of spiritual life.
Before Communion is necessary prayers and canons that are specifically designed to prepare for this holy sacrament.As a rule, combined canons "Jesus Christ" and the canon of Prayer "By the guardian angel and the Blessed Virgin Mary."Any prayers you can easily find these prayers and prepare for communion, carefully and thoughtfully read them, thus setting the soul in the desired fashion.It is advisable to read them not swoop at once, and for a few days to the preparation was more meaningful.Prayer before communion and confession do not accept the fuss is itself a spiritual life that just kills the fuss.
Conclusion
life of the Orthodox believer is filled with prayer, with which he begins any work in his life.Prayer is necessary always and everywhere, it serves as a guiding light, and directs the person on the right track.It is communion with God, which is why no matter the prayer before confession or not.The main thing - the presence of the prayer, which is an indicator, indicating that all is normal in the spiritual life of man.If prayer is a rare and extreme cases, if there is reason to wonder why this happens.Again, there is reason to repent!
