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Sins in Christianity

(According to Christian doctrine)

There are a number of acts that are called - sin and unworthy of a true Christian. The classification of acts on this basis is based on biblical texts, especially on the Ten Commandments of the Law of God and the Gospel commandments.

Below we provide a list of acts that are considered sins regardless of religion.

According to the Christian understanding of the Bible, a person who commits a voluntary sin (that is, realizing that it is a sin and resistance to God) can become possessed.

There are seven deadly sins in total:

(this term does not mean physical death, but spiritual death)

1. Pride(immense pride, considering oneself perfect and sinless, pride to the point of self-adoration, that is, ready to ascend to heaven and become like the Almighty.

2. Envy(vanity, jealousy), leading to every possible crime against one’s neighbor.

3. Anger(revenge) unapologetic and determined to commit terrible destruction, following the example of Herod, who in his anger beat the infants of Bethlehem. Hot temper, acceptance of angry thoughts: dreams of anger and revenge, indignation of the heart with rage, darkening of the mind by it: obscene shouting, argument, abusive, cruel and caustic words. Malice, hatred, enmity, revenge, slander, condemnation, indignation and insult to one’s neighbor.

4. Dejection(laziness in action, idleness, despair, carelessness). Laziness towards any good deed, especially prayer. Excessive restfulness with sleep. Depression, despair (which often leads a person to suicide), lack of fear of God, complete carelessness about the soul, neglect of repentance until the last days of life.

5. Greed(greed, stinginess, love of money). The love of money, combined for the most part with unrighteous acquisitions, does not allow a person to think even a minute about spiritual things.

6. Gluttony(gluttony, gluttony) not knowing any fasting, combined with a passionate attachment to various amusements, following the example of the evangelical rich man who had fun "it's light all day long"(Luke 16:19).

Drunkenness, drug use.

7. Voluptuousness(fornication - sexual activity before marriage, adultery - adultery. Dissolute life. Failure to preserve the senses, especially the sense of touch, which is insolence that destroys all virtues. Foul language and reading voluptuous books.)

Voluptuous thoughts, indecent conversations, even a single glance directed with lust at a woman are considered fornication. The Savior says this about it: “You have heard that it was said to the ancients, “You shall not commit adultery,” but I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.”(Matt. 5:27–28).

If he who looks lustfully at a woman sins, then the woman is not innocent of the same sin if she dresses up and adorns herself with the desire for people to look at her and be seduced by her, “for woe to the man through whom temptation comes.”

Sins against the Lord God

1. Pride

2. Failure to fulfill the holy will of God;

3. Violation of the commandments: the ten commandments of the Law of God, the Gospel commandments, church commandments;

4. Unbelief and lack of faith;

5. Lack of hope for the mercy of the Lord, despair;

6. Excessive reliance on the mercy of God;

7. Hypocritical worship of God, without the love and fear of God;

8. Lack of gratitude to the Lord for all His blessings - and even for the sorrows and illnesses sent down;

9. Appeal to psychics, astrologers, fortune tellers, fortune tellers;

10. Practicing “black” and “white” magic, witchcraft, fortune telling, spiritualism; superstition, belief in dreams, omens, wearing talismans, reading horoscopes even out of curiosity;

11. Blasphemy and grumbling against the Lord in the soul and in words;

12. Failure to fulfill vows made to God;

13. Calling on the name of God in vain, without necessity, swearing in the name of the Lord;

14. Blasphemous attitude towards the Holy Scriptures;

15. Shame and fear to profess faith;

16. Not reading the Holy Scriptures;

17. Going to church without diligence, laziness in prayer, absent-minded and cold prayer, absent-minded listening to readings and chants; being late for service and leaving the service early;

18. Disrespect for the feasts of God;

19. Thoughts about suicide, attempts to commit suicide;

20. Sexual immorality such as adultery, fornication, sodomy, sadomasochism, etc.

Sins against one's neighbor

1. Lack of love for others;

2. Lack of love for enemies, hatred of them, wishing them harm;

3. Inability to forgive, repaying evil for evil;

4. Lack of respect for elders and superiors, for parents, grief and offense to parents;

5. Failure to fulfill what was promised, non-payment of debts, open or secret appropriation of someone else’s property;

6. Beating, attempt on someone else's life;

7. Killing babies in the womb (abortion), advice to have abortions for neighbors;

8. Robbery, extortion;

9. Bribery;

10. Refusal to stand up for the weak and innocent, refusal to help someone in trouble;

11. Laziness and carelessness at work, disrespect for the work of others, irresponsibility;

12. Poor parenting is outside the Christian faith;

13. Cursing children;

14. Lack of mercy, stinginess;

15. Reluctance to visit the sick;

16. Not praying for mentors, relatives, enemies;

17. Cruelty, cruelty to animals, birds;

18. Unnecessarily destroying trees;

19. Dispute, non-yielding to neighbors, disputes;

20. Slander, condemnation, slander;

21 Gossip, retelling the sins of others, eavesdropping on other people's conversations;

22. Insult, enmity with neighbors, scandals, hysteria, curses, insolence, arrogant and free behavior towards neighbors, ridicule;

23. Hypocrisy;

24. Anger;

25. Suspicion of neighbors in unseemly actions;

26. Deception;

27. Perjury;

28. Seductive behavior, desire to seduce;

29. Jealousy;

30. Telling indecent jokes, corrupting your neighbors (adults and minors) with your actions;

31. Friendship for self-interest and betrayal.

Sins against yourself

1. Vanity, considering oneself better than everyone else, pride, lack of humility and obedience, arrogance, arrogance, spiritual egoism, suspicion;

2. Lies, envy;

3. Idle talk, laughter;

4. Foul language;

5. Irritation, indignation, rancor, resentment, grief;

6. Dejection, melancholy, sadness;

7. Doing good deeds for show;

8. Laziness, spending time in idleness, sleeping too much;

9. Gluttony, gluttony;

10. Love for earthly and material things more than for heavenly and spiritual things;

11. Addiction to money, things, luxury, pleasures;

12. Excessive attention to the flesh;

13. Desire for earthly honors and glory;

14. Excessive attachment to everything earthly, various kinds of things and worldly goods;

15. Drug use, drunkenness;

16. Playing cards, gambling;

17. Engagement in pimping, prostitution;

18. Performing obscene songs and dances;

19. Watching pornographic films, reading pornographic books, magazines;

20. Acceptance of lustful thoughts, pleasure and slowness in unclean thoughts;

21. Defilement in a dream, fornication (sex outside marriage);

22. Adultery (infidelity during marriage);

23. Allowing liberties to the crown and perversion in married life;

24. Fornication (defilement of oneself with prodigal touches), immodest viewing of wives and young men;

25. Sodomy;

26. Bestiality;

27. Minimizing one’s sins, blaming one’s neighbors rather than condemning oneself.

Sins crying to heaven:

1. In general, intentional homicide (this includes abortions), and especially parricide (fratricide and regicide).

2. Sin of Sodom.

3. Unnecessary oppression of a poor, defenseless person, a defenseless widow and young orphans.

4. Withholding from a wretched worker the wages he deserves.

5. Taking from a person in his extreme situation the last piece of bread or the last mite, which was obtained by him with sweat and blood, as well as the violent or secret appropriation of alms, food, warmth or clothing from prisoners in prison, which are determined by him, and in general their oppression .

6. Sorrows and insults to parents to the point of impudent beatings.

Sins of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit:

1. Excessive trust in God or continuation of a hard sinful life in the sole hope of God’s mercy.

2. Despair or a feeling opposite to excessive trust in God in relation to God’s mercy, denying the fatherly goodness in God and leading to thoughts of suicide.

3. Stubborn unbelief, not convinced by any evidence of truth, even obvious miracles, rejecting the most established truth.

Often using the word “sin” in his vocabulary, he does not always fully understand its interpretation. As a result, the term is used for other purposes, gradually losing its true content. Nowadays, sin is perceived as something forbidden, but at the same time attractive. Having committed it, people boast, proud of their act in the “bad boy” style, gaining popularity and a scandalous reputation with its help. Such individuals do not realize: in fact, even the slightest sins in Orthodoxy are something for which each of us will suffer heavy and eternal punishment after death.

What is sin?

Religion interprets it differently. It is usually believed that sins in Orthodoxy are states of the human soul that are diametrically opposed to morality and honor. By committing them, he goes against his true nature. The famous theologian John of Damascus, who lived in Syria in the 7th century, for example, wrote that sin is always a voluntary deviation from spiritual rules. That is, it is almost impossible to force a person to do something immoral. Yes, of course, he can be threatened with weapons or reprisals against his loved ones. But the Bible says that even in the face of real danger, he always has the right to choose. Sin is a wound that a believer inflicts on his own soul.

According to another theologian, Alexei Osipov, any offense is a consequence of the fall of mankind. However, unlike original wickedness, in the modern world we take full responsibility for our mistakes. Each individual is obliged to fight the craving for the forbidden, to overcome it by all means, the best of which, as Orthodoxy claims, is confession. The list of sins, their immoral content and retribution for what they have done - teachers are required to talk about this even in elementary grades during theology lessons, so that children from an early age understand the essence of this evil and know how to fight it. In addition to sincere confession, another way to atone for one’s own immorality is sincere repentance, prayer and a complete change in the way of life. The Church believes that without the help of priests it is not always possible to overcome sinfulness, therefore a person should regularly visit the temple and communicate with his spiritual mentor.

Deadly sins

These are the most serious human vices, which can only be redeemed through repentance. Moreover, this must be done exclusively from the heart: if an individual doubts that he will be able to live in accordance with the new spiritual rules, then it is better to postpone this process until the moment when the soul is completely ready. In another case, confession is considered evil, and lying can be punished even more. The Bible states that for mortal sins the soul is deprived of the opportunity to go to heaven. If they are very heavy and terrible, then the only place that “shines” for a person after death is hell with its pitch darkness, hot frying pans, seething fiery cauldrons and other devilish paraphernalia. If the offenses are isolated and accompanied by repentance, the soul goes to purgatory, where it gets a chance to cleanse itself and reunite with God.

How many especially serious offenses does religion provide for? It is known that when analyzing mortal sins, Orthodoxy always gives a different list. In various versions of the Gospel you can find a list of 7, 8 or 10 points. But traditionally it is believed that there are only seven of them:

Pride is contempt for one's neighbor. Leads to darkening of the mind and heart, denial of God and loss of love for him.
Greed or love of money. This is the desire to acquire wealth in any way, which gives rise to theft and cruelty.
Fornication is adultery itself or thoughts about it.
Envy is the desire for luxury. Leads to hypocrisy and humiliation of one's neighbor.
Gluttony. Shows excessive self-love.
Anger - thoughts of revenge, anger and aggression, which can lead to murder.
Laziness, which gives rise to despondency, sadness, sorrow and murmuring.

These are the main mortal sins. Orthodoxy never modifies the list, since it believes that there is no greater evil than the above-described vices. After all, they are the starting point for all other sins, including murder, assault, theft, and so on.

Pride

This is too high a person's self-esteem. He begins to consider himself the best and most worthy. It is clear that it is necessary to develop individuality, unusual abilities and genius talents. But placing one’s “I” on an unjustified pedestal of honor is real pride. Sin leads to an inadequate assessment of oneself and making other fatal mistakes in life.

It differs from ordinary pride in that a person begins to boast of his qualities before God himself. He develops the confidence that he himself is capable of achieving heights without the help of the Almighty, and his talents are not a gift from Heaven, but exclusively personal merit. The individual becomes arrogant, ungrateful, arrogant, inattentive to others.

In many religions, sin is considered the mother of all other vices. And indeed it is. A person affected by this spiritual illness begins to adore himself, which leads to laziness and gluttony. In addition, he despises everyone around him, which invariably leads him to anger and greed. Why does pride arise? Sin, Orthodoxy claims, becomes a consequence of improper upbringing and limited development. It is difficult to rid a person of vice. Usually higher powers give him a test in the form of poverty or physical injury, after which he either becomes even more evil and proud, or is completely cleansed of the wicked state of the soul.

Greed

The second most serious sin. Vanity is a product of greed and pride, their common fruit. Therefore, these two vices are the foundation on which a whole bunch of immoral character traits grow. As for greed, it manifests itself in the form of an indomitable desire to receive a lot of money. The people whom she touched with her icy hand stop spending their finances even on what is necessary, they accumulate wealth contrary to common sense. Apart from a way to earn money, such individuals do not think about anything else. It is from the seeds of greed that such vices of the human soul as greed, self-interest and envy sprout. They are the reason that the entire history of mankind is drenched in the blood of innocent victims.

In our time, greed continues to occupy a leading position in the sinful hierarchy. The popularity of loans, financial pyramids and business trainings confirms the sad fact that the meaning of life for many people is enrichment and luxury. Greed is going crazy for money. Like any other insanity, it is destructive to the individual: the individual spends the best years of his life not searching for himself, but on the endless accumulation and increase of capital. Often he decides to commit a crime: theft, fraud, corruption. To overcome greed, a person needs to understand that true happiness is within him, and it does not depend on material wealth. The counterbalance is generosity: give part of what you earn to those in need. This is the only way to cultivate the ability to share benefits with other people.

Envy

Considering the 7 deadly sins, Orthodoxy calls this vice one of the most terrible. Most of the crimes in the world are committed based on envy: people rob neighbors just because they are richer, kill acquaintances who are in power, plot against friends, angry at their popularity with the opposite sex... The list is endless. Even if envy does not become an impetus for misconduct, it will invariably provoke the destruction of a person’s personality. For example, an individual will drive himself into a premature grave, tormenting his soul with a distorted perception of reality and negative emotions.

Many people reassure themselves that their envy is white. They say that they appreciate the achievements of a loved one, which becomes an incentive for personal growth for them. But if you face the truth, no matter how you paint this vice, it will still be immoral. Black, white or multi-colored envy is a sin, because it involves your desire to conduct a financial inspection in someone else's pocket. And sometimes you take over something that doesn’t belong to you. To get rid of this unpleasant and spiritually devouring feeling, you need to realize: other people's benefits are always superfluous. You are a completely self-sufficient and strong person, so you can find your place in the sun.

Gluttony

The word is old and beautiful. It also directly points to the essence of the problem. Gluttony is serving one’s body, worshiping earthly desires and passions. Just think how disgusting a person looks, in whose life the main place is occupied by a primitive instinct: satiation of the body. The words “belly” and “animal” are related and similar in sound. They came from the Old Slavonic source code alive- "alive". Of course, in order to exist, an individual must eat. But we should remember: we eat to live, and not vice versa.

Gluttony, greed for food, satiety, eating large quantities of food - all this is gluttony. Most people do not take this sin seriously, believing that the love of goodies is their slight weakness. But one has only to look at it on a more global scale, how the vice becomes ominous: millions of people on Earth are dying of hunger, while someone, without shame or conscience, stuffs their belly to the point of nausea. Overcoming gluttony is often difficult. You will need iron willpower to strangle the baser instincts within yourself and limit yourself in food to the necessary minimum. Strict fasting and giving up your favorite delicacies help to cope with gluttony.

Fornication

Sins in Orthodoxy are the base desires of a weak-willed person. The manifestation of sexual activity, which is not carried out in a marriage blessed by the church, is considered fornication. This can also include infidelity, various kinds of intimate perversions and promiscuity. The most important thing is that this is only the physical shell of what is actually gnawing at the brain. After all, it is the gray matter, its imagination and the ability to fantasize that send impulses that push a person to an immoral act. Therefore, in Orthodoxy, fornication is also considered viewing pornographic materials, listening to obscene jokes, obscene remarks and thoughts - in a word, everything from which bodily sin itself is born.

Many people often confuse fornication with lust, considering them to be the same concept. But these are slightly different terms. Lust can also manifest itself in a legal marriage, when the husband rightfully desires his wife. And this is not considered a sin; on the contrary, it is encouraged by the church, which considers such a connection necessary for the continuation of the human race. Fornication is an invariable deviation from the rules preached by religion. When talking about it, they often use the expression “sin of Sodom.” In Orthodoxy, this term refers to an unnatural attraction to persons of the same sex. It is often impossible to get rid of a vice without the help of experienced psychologists, and also due to the lack of a strong inner core within a person.

Anger

It would seem that this is the natural state of a person... We get angry or indignant for various reasons, but the church condemns this. If you look at the 10 sins in Orthodoxy, this vice does not look like such a terrible offense. Moreover, the Bible even often uses such a concept as righteous anger - energy given by God aimed at solving problems. An example is the confrontation between Paul and Peter. The latter, by the way, gave the wrong example: the angry complaint of David, who heard from the prophet about injustice, and even the indignation of Jesus, who learned about the desecration of the temple. But please note: none of the mentioned episodes refers to self-defense; on the contrary, they all imply the protection of other people, society, religion, and principles.

Anger becomes a sin only when it has selfish motives. In this case, Divine goals are distorted. It is also condemned when it is prolonged, so-called chronic. Instead of generating indignation into energy, we begin to enjoy it, allowing anger to subjugate us. Of course, in this case the most important thing is forgotten - the goal that needs to be achieved with the help of anger. Instead, we focus on the person and the uncontrollable aggression towards him. To cope with it, you must in any case respond with good to any evil. This is the key to transforming anger into true love.

Laziness

More than one page is devoted to this vice in the Bible. Parables are filled with wisdom and warnings, saying that idleness can destroy any individual. There should be no place for idleness in the life of a believer, because it violates God’s purpose - good deeds. Laziness is a sin, because a non-working person is not able to provide for his family, support the weak, or help the poor. Instead, work is a tool with which you can get closer to God and cleanse your soul. The main thing is to work for the benefit not only of yourself, but of all people, society, the state and the church.

Laziness can turn a full-fledged personality into a limited animal. Lying on the couch and living at the expense of others, a person becomes an ulcer on the body, a creature sucking blood and vitality. To free yourself from laziness, you need to realize: without effort you are a weakling, a universal laughing stock, a creature of low rank, not a person. Of course, we are not talking about those people who, due to certain circumstances, cannot work fully. This refers to vigorous, physically healthy individuals who have every opportunity to benefit society, but ignore them due to a morbid tendency to idleness.

Other terrible sins in Orthodoxy

They are divided into two large groups: vices that bring harm to one’s neighbor, and those that are directed against God. The first includes such atrocities as murder, beatings, slander, and humiliation. The Bible teaches us to love our neighbor as ourselves, and also to forgive the guilty, honor our elders, protect our younger ones, and help those in need. Always keep promises on time, appreciate the work of others, raise children according to the canons of the Christian faith, protect plants and animals, do not judge for mistakes, forget about hypocrisy, slander, jealousy and ridicule.

Sins in Orthodoxy against God imply failure to fulfill the will of the Lord, ignoring the commandments, lack of gratitude, superstition, turning to magicians and fortune-tellers for help. Try not to pronounce the name of the Lord unless necessary, do not blaspheme or complain, learn not to sin. Instead, read the Holy Scriptures, go to temple, pray sincerely, get spiritually enriched and read everything

What is sin?

Deadly sins

Pride is contempt for one's neighbor. Leads to darkening of the mind and heart, denial of God and loss of love for him.
Greed or love of money. This is the desire to acquire wealth in any way, which gives rise to theft and cruelty.
Fornication is adultery itself or thoughts about it.
Envy is the desire for luxury. Leads to hypocrisy and humiliation of one's neighbor.
Gluttony. Shows excessive self-love.
Anger - thoughts of revenge, anger and aggression, which can lead to murder.
Laziness, which gives rise to despondency, sadness, sorrow and murmuring.

Pride

Greed

Envy

Gluttony

Fornication

Anger

Laziness

Other terrible sins in Orthodoxy

LIST OF SINS WITH A DESCRIPTION OF THEIR SPIRITUAL ESSENCE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

About repentance

Sins against God and the Church

Sins towards others

List of deadly sins

Special mortal sins - blasphemy against the Holy Spirit

About the eight main passions with their divisions and branches and about the virtues that oppose them (according to the works of St. Ignatius Brianchaninov).

General list of sins

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ZADONSKY CHRISTMAS OF THE BOGORODITSKY
MONASTERY
2005

About repentance

Our Lord Jesus Christ, who came to call not the righteous, but sinners to repentance (Matthew 9:13), Even in His earthly life he established the sacrament of forgiveness of sins. He released the harlot, who had washed His feet with tears of repentance, with the words: “Your sins are forgiven... your faith has saved you, go in peace.” (Luke 7, 48, 50). He healed the paralytic brought to Him on his bed, saying: “Your sins are forgiven... but so that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins,” then He said to the paralytic, “get up, take up your bed and go to your house.” » (Matt. 9, 2, 6).

He transferred this power to the apostles, and they to the priests of the Church of Christ, who have the right to resolve sinful bonds, that is, to free the soul from the sins committed and affecting it. If only a person came to confession with a feeling of repentance, awareness of his untruths and a desire to cleanse his soul of sinful burdens...

This brochure is intended to help the repentant: it contains a list of sins compiled on the basis of the “general confession” of St. Demetrius of Rostov.

Sins against God and the Church
* Disobedience to the will of God. Obvious disagreement with the will of God, expressed in His commandments, Holy Scripture, instructions of the spiritual father, the voice of conscience, reinterpretation of God's will in one's own way, in a sense beneficial to oneself for the purpose of self-justification or condemnation of one's neighbor, putting one's own will above the will of Christ, jealousy not according to reason in ascetic exercises and forcing others to follow themselves, failure to fulfill promises made to God in previous confessions.

* Murmuring against God. This sin is a consequence of distrust in God, which can lead to complete falling away from the Church, loss of faith, apostasy and opposition to God. The opposite virtue to this sin is humility before God’s Providence for oneself.

* Ingratitude to God. A person often turns to God in times of trials, sorrows and illnesses, asking to soften or even get rid of them; on the contrary, during periods of external well-being, he forgets about Him, not realizing that he is using His good gift, and does not thank him for it. The opposite virtue is constant gratitude to the Heavenly Father for the trials, consolations, spiritual joys and earthly happiness He sends.

* Lack of faith, doubt in the truth of Holy Scripture and Tradition (that is, in the dogmas of the Church, its canons, the legality and correctness of the hierarchy, the performance of worship, the authority of the writings of the Holy Fathers). Renunciation of faith in God out of fear of people and concern for earthly well-being.

Lack of faith - the absence of complete, deep conviction in any Christian truth or the acceptance of this truth only with the mind, but not with the heart. This sinful state arises out of doubt or lack of zeal for the true knowledge of God. Lack of faith is to the heart what doubt is to the mind. It relaxes the heart on the path of fulfilling the will of God. Confession helps to drive out lack of faith and strengthen the heart.

Doubt is a thought that violates (obviously and vaguely) the conviction in the truth of the teachings of Christ and His Church in general and in particular, for example, doubts in the Gospel commandments, doubts in dogmas, that is, any member of the Creed, in the holiness of something recognized by the Church a saint or events of Sacred history celebrated in the Church, in the inspiration of the Holy Fathers; doubt in the veneration of holy icons and relics of holy saints, in the invisible Divine presence, in worship and in the sacraments.

In life, one must learn to distinguish between “empty” doubts aroused by demons, the environment (the world) and one’s own sin-darkened mind - such doubts must be rejected by an act of will - and real spiritual problems that must be resolved based on complete trust in God and His Church , forcing oneself to complete self-disclosure before the Lord in the presence of a confessor. It is better to confess all doubts: both those that were rejected by the inner spiritual eye, and especially those that were accepted in the heart and gave rise to confusion and despondency there. In this way the mind is purified and enlightened and faith is strengthened.

Doubt can arise on the basis of excessive trust in oneself, being carried away by other people’s opinions, or little zeal for the awareness of one’s faith. The fruit of doubt is relaxation in following the path of salvation, opposition to the will of God.

* Passivity(little zeal, lack of effort) in the knowledge of Christian truth, the teachings of Christ and His Church. Lack of desire (if there is such an opportunity) to read the Holy Scriptures, the works of the holy fathers, to ponder and comprehend with the heart the dogmas of faith, to understand the meaning of worship. This sin arises from mental laziness or excessive fear of falling into any doubt. As a result, the truths of faith are absorbed superficially, thoughtlessly, mechanically, and in the end a person’s ability to effectively and consciously fulfill the will of God in life is undermined.

* Heresies and superstitions. Heresy is a false teaching relating to the spiritual world and communication with it, rejected by the Church as being in clear contradiction with Holy Scripture and Tradition. Personal pride, excessive trust in one’s own mind and personal spiritual experience often leads to heresy. The reason for heretical opinions and judgments may also be insufficient knowledge of the teachings of the Church, or theological ignorance.

* Ritualism. Adherence to the letter of Scripture and Tradition, attaching importance only to the external side of church life while forgetting its meaning and purpose - these vices are united under the name of ritualism. Belief in the saving significance of only the exact fulfillment of ritual actions in themselves, without taking into account their inner spiritual meaning, testifies to the inferiority of faith and a decrease in reverence for God, forgetting that a Christian must “serve God in the renewal of the spirit, and not according to the old letter.” (Rom. 7:6). Ritualism arises due to insufficient understanding of good news Christ, but “He gave us the ability to be ministers of the New Testament, not of the letter, but of the spirit, because the letter kills, but the spirit gives life.” (2 Cor. 3:6). Ritualism testifies to an inadequate perception of the teachings of the Church, which does not correspond to its greatness, or to an unreasonable zeal for service, which does not correspond to the will of God. Ritualism, which is quite widespread among the church people, entails superstition, legalism, pride, and division.

* Mistrust of God. This sin is expressed in the lack of confidence that the primary cause of all external and internal life circumstances is the Lord, who desires our true good. Distrust of God is caused by the fact that a person has not sufficiently become accustomed to the Gospel Revelation, has not felt its main point: the voluntary suffering, crucifixion, death and resurrection of the Son of God.

From distrust of God arise such sins as lack of constant gratitude to Him, despondency, despair (especially in illness, sorrow), cowardice in circumstances, fear of the future, vain attempts to insure against suffering and avoid trials, and in case of failure - hidden or open murmur on God and His Providence for himself. The opposite virtue is placing one’s hopes and hopes on God, fully accepting His Providence for oneself.

* Lack of fear of God and reverence for Him. Careless, absent-minded prayer, irreverent behavior in the temple, before the shrine, disrespect for the sacred dignity.

Lack of mortal memory in anticipation of the Last Judgment.

* Small jealousy(or its complete absence) to communion with God, spiritual life. Salvation is fellowship with God in Christ in the eternal future life. Earthly life for the acquisition of the grace of the Holy Spirit, the revelation of the Kingdom of Heaven, the world of God, the sonship of God. Achieving this goal depends on God, but God will not constantly be with a person if he does not show all his zeal, love, intelligence to get closer to Him. The whole life of a Christian is directed towards this goal. If you have no love for prayer as a way of communicating with God, for the temple, for participating in the sacraments, then this is a sign of a lack of zeal for communication with God.

In relation to prayer, this manifests itself in the fact that it occurs only under duress, irregular, inattentive, relaxed, with a careless body position, mechanical, limited only to prayers learned by heart or read out. There is no constant memory of God, love and gratitude to Him as the background of all life.

Possible reasons: insensibility of the heart, passivity of the mind, lack of proper preparation for prayer, unwillingness to think through and understand with your heart and mind the meaning of the upcoming prayer work and the content of each forgiveness or doxology.

Another group of reasons: attachment of the mind, heart and will to earthly things.

In relation to temple worship, this sin is manifested in rare, irregular participation in public worship, in absent-mindedness or talking during the service, walking around the temple, distracting others from prayer with one’s requests or comments, being late for the start of the service and leaving before dismissal and blessing.

In general, this sin comes down to inability to feel the special presence of God in the temple during public worship.

Causes of sin: reluctance to enter into prayerful unity with brothers and sisters in Christ due to being burdened with earthly concerns and immersion in the vain affairs of this world, powerlessness in the fight against internal temptations sent by spiritually hostile forces that interfere and hold us back from acquiring the grace of the Holy Spirit, and , finally, pride, an unbrotherly, unloving attitude towards other parishioners, irritation and anger against them.

In relation to the Sacrament of repentance, the sin of indifference is manifested in rare confessions without proper preparation, in the preference for a general confession to a personal one in order to go through it more painlessly, in the absence of a desire to deeply know oneself, in an uncontrite and unhumble spiritual disposition, in the lack of determination to leave sin and eradicate vicious inclinations , to overcome temptations, instead - the desire to minimize sin, justify oneself, and keep silent about the most shameful actions and thoughts. By thereby committing deception in the face of the Lord Himself, who accepts confession, a person aggravates his sins.

The reasons for these phenomena are a lack of understanding of the spiritual meaning of the Sacrament of Repentance, complacency, self-pity, vanity, and an unwillingness to internally overcome demonic resistance.

We sin especially grievously against the Most Holy and Life-Giving Mysteries of the Body and Blood of Christ, approaching Holy Communion rarely and without proper preparation, without first cleansing the soul in the Sacrament of repentance; we do not feel the need to receive communion more often, we do not maintain our purity after communion, but again we fall into vanity and indulge in vices.

The reasons for this are rooted in the fact that we do not think deeply about the meaning of the highest sacrament of the Church, we do not realize its greatness and our sinful unworthiness, the need for healing of soul and body, we do not pay attention to the insensitivity of the heart, we do not realize the influence of fallen spirits nesting in our soul, which turn us away from communion, and therefore we do not resist, but succumb to their temptation, we do not enter into struggle with them, we do not experience reverence and fear of God’s presence in the Holy Gifts, we are not afraid to partake of the Holy Place “in judgment and condemnation,” we do not worry about the constant fulfillment of our will God in life, inattentive to our hearts, subject to vanity, approaching the Holy Chalice with a hardened heart, not reconciled with our neighbors.

* Self-justification, complacency. Satisfaction with one's spiritual structure or state.

* Despair from the spectacle of one’s spiritual state and powerlessness to fight sin. In general, self-assessment of one’s own spiritual structure and state; placing spiritual judgment on oneself in contrast to what the Lord Jesus Christ said: “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay” (Rom. 12:19).

* Lack of spiritual sobriety constant heartfelt attention, absent-mindedness, sinful oblivion, foolishness.

* Spiritual pride attributing to oneself the gifts received from God, the desire for independent possession of any spiritual gifts and energies.

* Spiritual fornication attraction to spirits alien to Christ (occultism, eastern mysticism, theosophy). True spiritual life is being in the Holy Spirit.

* Frivolous and sacrilegious attitude towards God and the Church: using the name of God in jokes, frivolous mention of holy things, curses with the mention of His name, pronouncing the name of God without reverence.

* Spiritual individualism, a tendency to isolation in prayer (even during the Divine Liturgy), forgetting that we are members of the Catholic Church, members of one mystical Body of Christ, members of each other.

* Spiritual egoism, spiritual voluptuousness- prayer, participation in the sacraments only for the sake of receiving spiritual pleasures, consolations and experiences.

* Impatience in Prayer and Others spiritual exploits. This includes failure to follow prayer rules, breaking fasts, eating at the wrong time, and leaving church early without a particularly good reason.

* Consumer attitude towards God and the Church, when there is no desire to give anything to the Church, to work for it in any way. Prayerful request for worldly success, honors, satisfaction of selfish desires and material wealth.

* Spiritual stinginess lack of spiritual generosity, the need to convey to others the grace received from God with words of consolation, sympathy, and service to people.

* Lack of constant concern for doing God's will in life. This sin manifests itself when we do serious things without asking for God's blessing, without consulting or asking for the blessing of our spiritual father.

Sins towards others

* Pride, exaltation over one's neighbor, arrogance, “demonic stronghold” (this most dangerous of sins is discussed separately and in detail below).

* Condemnation. The tendency to notice, remember and name other people's shortcomings, to commit overt or internal judgment on one's neighbor. Under the influence of condemnation of one’s neighbor, which is not always noticeable even to oneself, a distorted image of one’s neighbor is formed in the heart. This image then serves as an internal justification for dislike for this person, a disdainful and evil attitude towards him. In the process of repentance, this false image must be crushed and, on the basis of love, the true image of each neighbor must be recreated in the heart.

* Anger, irritability, grumpiness. Can I control my anger? Do I allow swear words and curses in quarrels with neighbors and in raising children? Do I use foul language in normal conversation (to be “like everyone else”)? Is there rudeness, rudeness, impudence, evil mockery, hatred in my behavior?

* Unmercifulness, lack of compassion. Am I responsive to requests for help? Are you ready for self-sacrifice and almsgiving? Is it easy for me to lend things or money? Am I not reproaching my debtors? Am I rudely and persistently demanding the return of what I borrowed? Am I not bragging to people about my sacrifices, alms, helping my neighbors, expecting approval and earthly rewards? Wasn't he stingy, afraid of not getting what he asked for back?

Works of mercy should be done in secret, for we do them not for the sake of human glory, but for the sake of love for God and neighbor.

* Grudges, unforgiveness of insults, vindictiveness. Excessive demands on one's neighbor. These sins are contrary to both the spirit and the letter of the Gospel of Christ. Our Lord teaches us to forgive our neighbor’s sins against us up to seventy times seventy times. Without forgiving others, taking revenge on them for an insult, holding in our minds a grudge against another, we cannot hope for the forgiveness of our own sins by the Heavenly Father.

* Self-isolation, alienation from other people.

* Neglect of neighbors, indifference. This sin is especially terrible in relation to parents: ingratitude towards them, callousness. If our parents have died, do we remember to remember them in prayer?

* Vanity, ambition. We fall into this sin when we become vain, flaunting our talents, mental and physical, intelligence, education, and when we demonstrate our superficial spirituality, ostentatious churchliness, imaginary piety.

How do we treat our family members, people with whom we often meet or work? Can we tolerate their weaknesses? Do we often get irritated? Are we arrogant, touchy, intolerant of other people's shortcomings, of other people's opinions?

* Lust, the desire to be first, to command. Do we love to be served? How do we treat people who depend on us at work and at home? Do we like to dominate, to insist on doing our will? Do we have a tendency to interfere in other people's affairs, in other people's personal lives, with persistent advice and instructions? Don't we tend to leave the last word for ourselves, just to disagree with the opinion of another, even if he is right?

* Humanity- this is the other side of the sin of covetousness. We fall into it, wanting to please another person, fearing to disgrace ourselves in front of him. Out of people-pleasing intentions, we often fail to expose obvious sin and participate in lies. Have we indulged in flattery, that is, feigned, exaggerated admiration for a person, trying to gain his favor? Have we adjusted to other people's opinions and tastes for our own benefit? Have you ever been deceitful, dishonest, two-faced, or dishonest at work? Didn't you betray people to save yourself from trouble? Did you place your blame on others? Have you kept other people's secrets?

Reflecting on his past, a Christian preparing for confession must remember all the bad things that he, voluntarily or unwittingly, committed towards his neighbors.

Was it the cause of grief, someone else's misfortune? Didn't he destroy the family? Are you guilty of adultery and have you encouraged someone else to commit this sin through pimping? Did you not take upon yourself the sin of killing an unborn child, did you contribute to it? These sins should only be repented of in personal confession.

Was he prone to obscene jokes, anecdotes, and immoral allusions? Didn’t he insult the sanctity of human love with cynicism and outrage?

* Disturbing the peace. Do we know how to maintain peace in the family, in communication with neighbors, and co-workers? Don't we allow ourselves slander, condemnation, and evil ridicule? Do we know how to curb our tongue, are we not talkative?

Are we showing an idle, sinful curiosity about the lives of other people? Are we attentive to the needs and concerns of people? Are we not closing in on ourselves, in our supposedly spiritual problems, turning away people?

* Envy, malice, gloating. Have you envied someone else's success, position, arrangement? Didn't you secretly wish for failure, failure, a sad outcome for other people's affairs? Did you not openly or secretly rejoice at someone else’s misfortune or failure? Did you incite others to evil deeds while remaining outwardly innocent? Have you ever been overly suspicious, seeing only the bad in everyone? Did one person point out the vice (explicit or imaginary) of another person in order to quarrel between them? Have you abused the trust of your neighbor by revealing to others his shortcomings or sins? Did you spread gossip discrediting the wife before the husband or the husband before the wife? Did your behavior cause jealousy of one of the spouses and anger against the other?

* Resistance to evil against oneself. This sin is manifested in obvious resistance to the offender, in repaying evil for evil, when our heart does not want to bear the pain caused to him.

* Failure to provide assistance to one's neighbor, the offended, the persecuted. We fall into this sin when, out of cowardice or misunderstood humility, we do not stand up for the offended, do not expose the offender, do not testify to the truth, and allow evil and injustice to triumph.

How do we bear the misfortune of our neighbor, do we remember the commandment: “Bear one another’s burdens”? Are you always ready to help, sacrificing your peace and well-being? Are we leaving our neighbor in trouble?

Sins against oneself and other sinful tendencies that are contrary to the spirit of Christ

* Dejection, despair. Have you given in to despondency and despair? Did you have thoughts of suicide?

* Bad faith. Do we force ourselves to serve others? Are we sinning by dishonestly fulfilling our duties in work and raising children? whether we keep our promises to people; Don’t we tempt people by being late to the meeting place or to the house where they are waiting for us, by being forgetful, unobligatory, and frivolous?

Are we careful at work, at home, in transport? Are we scattered in our work: forgetting to finish one task, we move on to another? Do we strengthen ourselves in the intention to serve others?

* Bodily excesses. Didn’t you destroy yourself with excesses of the flesh: overeating, sweet eating, gluttony, eating at the wrong time?

Have you abused your penchant for bodily peace and comfort, sleeping a lot, lying in bed after waking up? Have you indulged in laziness, immobility, lethargy, and relaxation? Are you so partial to a certain way of life that you are unwilling to change it for the sake of your neighbor?

Am I not guilty of drunkenness, this most terrible of modern vices, destroying soul and body, bringing evil and suffering to others? How do you fight this vice? Do you help your neighbor to give up on him? Did you not tempt the non-drinker with wine, or give wine to the young and sick?

Are you addicted to smoking, which also destroys your health? Smoking distracts from spiritual life, a cigarette replaces a smoker’s prayer, displaces the consciousness of sins, destroys spiritual chastity, serves as a temptation for others, and harms their health, especially children and adolescents. Did you use drugs?

* Sensual thoughts and temptations. Have we struggled with sensual thoughts? Have you avoided the temptations of the flesh? Have you turned away from seductive sights, conversations, touches? Have you sinned by intemperance of mental and physical feelings, pleasure and procrastination in unclean thoughts, voluptuousness, immodest viewing of persons of the opposite sex, self-defilement? Don't we remember with pleasure our previous sins of the flesh?

* Peacefulness. Are we not guilty of pleasing human passions, mindlessly following the lifestyle and behavior accepted among the people around us, including, although existing in the church environment, but not imbued with the spirit of love, feigning piety, falling into hypocrisy, pharisaism?

* Disobedience. Do we sin by disobeying our parents, elders in the family, or bosses at work? Are we not following the advice of our spiritual father, are we avoiding the penance he imposed on us, this spiritual medicine that heals the soul? Do we suppress reproaches of conscience within ourselves, not fulfilling the law of love?

* Idleness, extravagance, attachment to things. Are we wasting our time? Are we using the talents God has given us for good? Are we wasting money without benefiting ourselves and others?

Are we not guilty of addiction to the comforts of life, are we not attached to perishable material things, are we not excessively accumulating, “for a rainy day,” food products, clothes, shoes, luxurious furniture, jewelry, thereby not trusting God and His Providence, forgetting that tomorrow we can appear before His court?

* Acquisitiveness. We fall into this sin when we are overly carried away by the accumulation of perishable wealth or seeking human glory in work, in creativity; when, under the pretext of being busy, we refuse to pray and go to church even on Sundays and holidays, we indulge in over-concern and vanity. This leads to captivity of the mind and petrification of the heart.

We sin in word, deed, thought, with all five senses, knowledge and ignorance, voluntarily and involuntarily, in reason and unreason, and there is no way to list all our sins according to their multitude. But we truly repent of them and ask for grace-filled help to remember all our sins, forgotten and therefore unrepentant. We promise to continue to take care of ourselves with God’s help, avoid sin and do deeds of love. But You, Lord, forgive us and forgive us from all sins according to Your mercy and long-suffering, and bless us to partake of Your Holy and Life-giving Mysteries, not for judgment and condemnation, but for the healing of soul and body. Amen.

List of deadly sins

1. Pride, despising everyone, demanding servility from others, ready to ascend to heaven and become like the Most High; in a word, pride to the point of self-adoration.

2. An insatiable soul, or Judas’s greed for money, combined for the most part with unrighteous acquisitions, not allowing a person even a minute to think about spiritual things.

3. Fornication, or the dissolute life of the prodigal son, who squandered all his father’s estate on such a life.

4. Envy leading to every possible crime against one's neighbor.

5. Gluttony, or carnalism, not knowing any fasting, combined with a passionate attachment to various amusements, following the example of the evangelical rich man, who had fun all day long.

6. Anger unapologetic and deciding to commit terrible destruction, following the example of Herod, who in his anger beat the infants of Bethlehem.

7. Laziness or complete carelessness about the soul, carelessness about repentance until the last days of life, as, for example, in the days of Noah.

Special mortal sins - blasphemy against the Holy Spirit

These sins include:

Stubborn disbelief not convinced by any evidence of truth, even by obvious miracles, rejecting the most established truth.

Despair, or the feeling opposite to excessive trust in God in relation to God’s mercy, which denies the fatherly goodness in God and leads to thoughts of suicide.

Excessive reliance on God or the continuation of a gravely sinful life in the sole hope of God’s mercy.

Deadly sins that cry out to heaven for vengeance

* In general, intentional homicide (abortion), and especially parricide (fratricide and regicide).

* Sin of Sodom.

* Unnecessary oppression of a poor, defenseless person, a defenseless widow and young orphans.

* Withholding from a wretched worker the wages he deserves.

* Taking away from a person in his extreme situation the last piece of bread or the last mite, which he obtained with sweat and blood, as well as the violent or secret appropriation of alms, food, warmth or clothing from prisoners in prison, which are determined by him, and in general their oppression.

* Chagrin and insults to parents to the point of impudent beatings.

About the eight main passions with their divisions
and otralami and about the virtues that oppose them
(based on the works of St. Ignatius Brianchaninov)

1. Gluttony- overeating, drunkenness, non-keeping and allowing fasts, secret eating, delicacy, and generally violation of abstinence. Incorrect and excessive love of the flesh, its belly and rest, which constitutes self-love, from which comes failure to remain faithful to God, the Church, virtue and people.

This passion must be resisted abstinence - refraining from excessive consumption of food and nutrition, especially from drinking wine in excess, and maintaining fasts established by the Church. One must curb one’s flesh by moderate and constantly equal consumption of food, which is why all passions in general begin to weaken, and especially self-love, which consists of a wordless love of the flesh, life and its peace.

2. Fornication- prodigal kindling, prodigal sensations and attitudes of the soul and heart. Prodigal dreams and captivities. Failure to preserve the senses, especially the sense of touch, is the insolence that destroys all virtues. Foul language and reading voluptuous books. Natural prodigal sins: fornication and adultery. Prodigal sins are unnatural.

This passion is resisted chastity - avoidance of all kinds of fornication. Chastity is avoidance of voluptuous conversations and reading, and the utterance of voluptuous, foul and ambiguous words. Storing the senses, especially sight and hearing, and even more so the sense of touch. Alienation from television and depraved films, from depraved newspapers, books and magazines. Modesty. Rejection of the thoughts and dreams of prodigals. The beginning of chastity is a mind that does not waver from lustful thoughts and dreams; the perfection of chastity is purity that sees God.

3. Love of money- love of money, in general love of property, movable and immovable. The desire to get rich. Thinking about the means to get rich. Dreaming of wealth. Fears of old age, unexpected poverty, illness, exile. Stinginess. Selfishness. Disbelief in God, lack of trust in His Providence. Addiction or painful excessive love for various perishable objects, depriving the soul of freedom. Passion for vain concerns. Loving gifts. Appropriation of someone else's. Likhva. Cruelty towards the poor brethren and all those in need. Theft. Robbery.

They fight this passion non-covetousness - self-satisfaction with only what is necessary, hatred of luxury and bliss, charity for the poor. Non-covetousness is the love of gospel poverty. Trust in God's Providence. Following Christ's commandments. Calmness and freedom of spirit and carelessness. Softness of heart.

4. Anger— hot temper, acceptance of angry thoughts: dreams of anger and revenge, indignation of the heart with rage, darkening of the mind by it; obscene shouting, argument, swearing, cruel and caustic words; hitting, pushing, killing. Malice, hatred, enmity, revenge, slander, condemnation, indignation and insult to one’s neighbor.

The passion of anger is opposed meekness — avoidance of angry thoughts and indignation of the heart with rage. Patience. Following Christ, who calls His disciple to the cross. Peace of the heart. Silence of the mind. Christian firmness and courage. Not feeling insulted. Kindness.

5. Sadness- grief, melancholy, cutting off hope in God, doubt in God’s promises, ingratitude to God for everything that happens, cowardice, impatience, lack of self-reproach, sorrow for one’s neighbor, grumbling, renunciation of the cross, attempt to descend from it.

They fight this passion by opposing it blissful cry — a feeling of decline, common to all people, and of one’s own spiritual poverty. Lamentation about them. Cry of the mind. Painful contrition of the heart. The lightness of conscience, grace-filled consolation and joy that vegetates from them. Hope in God's mercy. Thank God in sorrows, humbly enduring them from the sight of the multitude of one’s sins. Willingness to endure.

6. Dejection- laziness towards any good deed, especially prayer. Abandonment of church and cell rules. Abandoning unceasing prayer and soul-helping reading. Inattention and haste in prayer. Neglect. Irreverence. Idleness. Excessive calming by sleeping, lying down and all kinds of restlessness. Celebration. Jokes. Blasphemy. Abandonment of bows and other physical feats. Forgetting your sins. Forgetting the commandments of Christ. Negligence. Captivity. Deprivation of the fear of God. Bitterness. Insensibility. Despair.

Opposes despondency sobriety — zeal for every good deed. Non-slothful correction of church and cell rules. Attention when praying. Careful observation of all deeds, words, thoughts

and your feelings. Extreme self-distrust. Continuous stay in prayer and the Word of God. Awe. Constant vigilance over oneself. Keeping yourself from a lot of sleep and effeminacy, idle talk, jokes and sharp words. Love of night vigils, bows and other feats that bring cheerfulness to the soul. Remembrance of eternal blessings, desire and expectation of them.

7. Vanity- the search for human glory. Boasting. Desire and search for earthly and vain honors. Loving beautiful clothes. Attention to the beauty of your face, the pleasantness of your voice and other qualities of your body. Shame to confess your sins. Hiding them before people and the spiritual father. Craftiness. Self-justification. Envy. Humiliation of one's neighbor. Changeability of character. Indulgence. Unconscionability. The character and life are demonic.

Vanity is fought humility . This virtue includes the fear of God. Feeling it during prayer. Fear that arises during especially pure prayer, when the presence and greatness of God is felt especially strongly, so as not to disappear and turn into nothing. Deep knowledge of one's insignificance. A change in view of one’s neighbors, and they, without any coercion, seem to the humbled person to be superior to him in all respects. The manifestation of simplicity from living faith. Knowledge of the mystery hidden in the Cross of Christ. The desire to crucify oneself to the world and passions, the desire for this crucifixion. Rejection of earthly wisdom as obscene before God (Lk. 16.15). Silence before those who offend, studied in the Gospel. Putting aside all your own speculations and accepting the mind of the Gospel. The casting down of every thought that rises up against the mind of Christ. Humility or spiritual reasoning. Conscious obedience to the Church in everything.

8. Pride- contempt for one's neighbor. Preferring yourself to everyone. Insolence; darkness, dullness of mind and heart. Nailing them to the earthly. Hula. Disbelief. False mind. Disobedience to the Law of God and the Church. Following your carnal will. Abandonment of Christ-like humility and silence. Loss of simplicity. Loss of love for God and neighbor. False philosophy. Heresy. Godlessness. Ignorance. Death of the soul.

Pride Resists Love . The virtue of love includes changing the fear of God into the love of God during prayer. Fidelity to the Lord, proven by the constant rejection of every sinful thought and feeling, the indescribable, sweet attraction of the whole person with love for the Lord Jesus Christ and for the worshiped Holy Trinity. Seeing the image of God and Christ in others; resulting from this spiritual vision, the preference for oneself over all neighbors, their reverent veneration for the Lord. Love for neighbors, brotherly, pure, equal to everyone, joyful, impartial, flaming equally towards friends and enemies. Admiration for prayer and love of the mind, heart and whole body. Indescribable pleasure of the body with spiritual joy. Inactivity of the bodily senses during prayer. Resolution from the muteness of the heart's tongue. Stopping prayer from spiritual sweetness. Silence of the mind. Enlightening the mind and heart. Prayer power that overcomes sin. Peace of Christ. Retreat of all passions. The absorption of all understandings into the superior mind of Christ. Theology. Knowledge of incorporeal beings. The weakness of sinful thoughts that cannot be imagined in the mind. Sweetness and abundant consolation in times of sorrow. Vision of human structures. The depth of humility and the most humiliating opinion of oneself... The end is endless!

General list of sins

I confess that I am a great sinner (name) To the Lord God and our Savior Jesus Christ and to you, honorable father, all my sins and all my evil deeds, which I have done all the days of my life, which I have thought even to this day.

Sinned: He did not keep the vows of holy Baptism, but he lied about everything and created indecent things for himself before the face of God.