Prayer, Repentance, and Spiritual Life · Lecture 060
On Repentance and Confession
A lecture by Dimitrios Panagopoulos · Δείτε στα Ελληνικά
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Summary
Repentance, Dimitrios Panagopoulos teaches, means cleansing the soul again and again through honest self-examination, Scripture, Tradition, and the Fathers. He presses his hearers to abandon excuses and to attend to their own sins rather than to the failings of the clergy: the priest's personal weakness does not annul sacramental grace, because what is venerated is the priesthood of Christ and not the man. Each is judged according to his own responsibility, and believers should pray for worthy pastors instead of using scandal as a reason to abandon confession. He calls for active care of endangered souls through prayer, counsel, material help, and reconciliation, after the pattern of the Good Samaritan and the Forerunner (Luke 10:25-37). A family reconciled after eighteen years shows how persistence can break pride and prepare a soul for death.
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