Archimandrite Naum (Byborodin) about a saving approach to confession. Confession of a modern person

“Imagine a person who does not wash off his dark bodily dirt all his life. So our soul requires washing in the sacrament of repentance, healing and cleansing “second baptism”! Everyone has seen more than once or remembers from childhood that when it warms up in winter and the children ride snowballs, the tiny ball of snow turns into a huge lump. The same happens with the sinful state of our soul. ” These words from the conversation before the confession of the confessor of the Trinity-Sergayeva Lavra-the perishable archimandrite Naum (Baiborodin; 1927-2017).

wise tips of the elder, one of the pillars of the older century, there are a lot of the book. They were about what the father did not tire of repeating his spiritual children: "Everyone for his salvation should go through the path of cleansing through the fulfillment of commandments, fasting, abstinence, through a chaste life, an unceasing prayer and a worthy communion of the holy of Christ the mysties." Particular attention in the book is paid to the sermons, instructions and conversations of the priest of confession, repentance - the appeal of our mind to God, as well as the holy communion and chastity.