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How to prepare for confession and communion?Preparation for confession and communion, especially for the first time, causes many, many questions. I remember my first communion. How hard it was me to figure it out in everything. In this article, you will receive answers to questions: What to speak to the priest's confession - an example? How to commitory and confess? Rules of communion in the church? How to confess the first time? How to prepare for communion? The answer to these questions gives the modern Greek preacher Archimandrite Andrei (Konanos) and other priests.
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But, unfortunately, most people during the communion are similar to children playing with precious stones and not understanding their values.
Communion rules can be found in any temple. Usually they are set forth in a small little book called "How to prepare for the Holy Communion." These are these simple rules:
- Before communion you need 3 days fast - There are only vegetable foods (refuse meat, dairy products and eggs).
- Need to be in the evening On the eve before the day of communion.
- Need to confession Either in the evening service either on the day of communion at the very beginning of the liturgy (morning service, during which the communion occurs).
- Need a few days more pray hard - To do this, read Morning and evening prayers and read the canons: Canon repented to the Lord to our Jesus x Rista ,
Canon Prayer Blessed Virgin,
Canon Angel XP Antel,
Follow-up to holy communion *. * If you have never read the canons (in church-Slavic language), you can listen to audio (there are on websites-prayer at the specified links). - You need to take an empty stomach (in the morning there is nothing and not to drink). An exception is made for sick people, such as diabetics, for which food and medicine are vital.
If you become communion on every liturgy, every Sunday, your confessor will be able to allow you to quickly fast and not deduct all the indicated prayers. Do not be afraid to ask the father and consult with him.
How is the communion in the church?
Suppose you decided to come on Sunday. So, on the eve of the evening (on Saturday) you need to come to the evening service. Usually evening service in the temple begins at 17:00. Find out, the liturgy (morning service) begins at Sunday, on which the communion itself will be held. Usually, the morning service in the temple begins at 9:00. If the confession was not in the evening service, then confess at the beginning of the morning service.
Around the middle of the service, the priest will leave the altar bowl. All those who were preparing for communion are going near the bowl and fold their hands on the chest right on top of the left. To the cup fit carefully not to turn it out. The priest with a spoon gives parties to the holy gifts - a piece of body and blood of Christ under the guise of bread and wine.
After that, you need to go to the end of the temple, where you will give a lock. It is diluted with wine water. It is necessary to drink so that no drop or babe of the Eucharist disappear. Only after that you can cross. At the end of the service you need to listen to thanksgiving prayers.
How to prepare for confession? What to talk to the confession to the priest - an example? List of sins
The main rule for confession, about which priests always resemble, do not retell sins. Because if you begin to retell the story, as you committed sin, then you will involuntarily begin to justify yourself and blame others. Therefore, the confessions are simply called sins. For example: pride, envy, foul language, etc. But not to forget anything, take advantage list of sins against God, against nearby, against yourself (Usually this list is in the book "How to prepare for the Holy Communion".
Sins write on a leafle to not forget anything. Come to the temple in the morning early in order not to be late for confession and on the overall prayer before confession. Before confession, go to the priest, cross, apply to the gospel and to the cross and start listed in advance the recorded sins. After confession, the priest reads the permissive prayer and will say whether you are committed to communion.
It rarely happens when the priest does not allow you to compete for your correction. This, including and checking your pride.
It is important during confession, calling sin, to give yourself a promise not to repeat it. It is very important on the eve of the communion to reconcile with the enemies and forgive their offenders.
How to confess the first time?
The first confession is often called general confession. As a rule, almost all sins from the list of sins against God, near and herself fall into the leafles with the list of sins. The father will surely understand that you came to confession for the first time and will help you with advice, how to try not to repeat sins and mistakes.
I hope the article "How to prepare for confession and communion?" It will help you to decide and go to confession and communion. It is important for your soul, because confession is the cleansing of the soul. The body we wash every day, but do not care about the purity of the soul!
If you have never confessed and did not come together and it seems to you that it is very difficult to prepare, I recommend that you do this feat. The award will be great. I assure you nothing like you have not experienced before. After the communion, you will feel unusual and with nothing comparable spiritual joy.
The most difficult usually seems to subtract the canons and submits to the Holy Communion. Indeed, in the first time read hard. Take advantage of the audio record and listen to all these prayers within 2-3 evenings.
Listen in this video, the story of the priest Andrei Tkacheva about how much time (usually several years) separates a person from the desire to go to the first confession until the first confession.
I wish everyone to enjoy life and thank God for everything!
Alena Krais
Indeed, there is such an opinion that an Orthodox Christian should be used on every Sunday Liturgy.
In principle, theoretically is very good. After all, the Lord, in essence, I called us. In order to make the sacrament of the Eucharist. And the priestly exclosed "won. The holy holy "addressed us and translates as" will be extremely attentive! Holy, i.e., the body and blood of Christ are taught saints - that is, all of us - a royal priesthood, consecrated in the sacrament of baptism and the mining grace of God, effort to purify their souls and body from sin, taking place in the sacrament of confession, in prayer, in post , in good deeds. " And these people, the most cleared with God's help, come to be taught by the greatest shrine of the Eucharist, who connects them to God. And there is a wonderful transformation, resurrection, human healing in Christ!
Therefore, of course, you need to pass. Preferably more often. The communion person most often participates in the liturgy, living her fiery, truly Divinely, as if burning love for God Seraphim.
Each, preferably with his confessor or with a priest, to whom he trusts, should work out the most acceptable norm of communion as possible if it can be expressed. Because it is easy to try, say figuratively, lie under this "spiritual barn", mentally impose on it metal heavy "pancakes" for weight and grow it in a fever. But this rod can breastfeed yourself in the worst case, and in the best - to break the muscle tissue. And remain disabled. Such cases in church practice are also known. A person on his own arbitrariness takes a spiritual feat for no power, and then cannot withstand it. It happened when people even left the church because of this. In this case, the books of St. Ignatia (Bryanchaninova) "On charms" or "ascetic experiments" are very useful. After all, remember, for example, Pechersk Rev. Isaacia Restuncher, who in addition to the will of the abbot of the abbot without blessing went into the shutter, there after some time became a victim of the demon, and the reverend fathers then put him out of God for several years, because he was lying as if he was dead in paralysis, dumb .
It is necessary to properly with their own. It is easiest in a romantic energetic impulse to take a low start, and then sullenly and gloomy to get away from the distance, because you can not stand the highly entrusted feathers.
I sometimes say to my parishioners. If you compare an Orthodox Christian with some animals, then this is definitely not a cheetah, which from the start develops speeds in a hundred kilometers. Yes, he develops it. But can't run with her all the time. This is its starting speed, a predatory throw, which lasts only 10-20 seconds. And then the cheetah tired. The Orthodox man can rather compare with a camel, which is leisurely, but calmly and confidently, patiently transferring the most severe weather conditions, moves to his goal.
In the case of an Orthodox Christian - to the kingdom of heaven.
It seems to me from the priestly experience that Miryanina will be very difficult to pass on every Sunday Liturgy: three days of fasting, four days (including the day of communion), a married abstinence, prayers, canons, the follow-up to the communion of the Holy Holy Mysters is quite difficult to endure even the priest even put on the priest . And work, children, family, home duties? All this can be an unbearable burden. Therefore, of course, it is better to communicate more than four times a year (in big posts), but still competent communion with your own, time and employment.
In addition, there are extraordinary situations when the blessing of a bishop or priest can be commsed every day: a suicide condition, severe illness.
But in the case of a healthy person, it is better to observe, in my opinion, a reasonable golden middle, so that the sacrament does not turn into an ordinary habit or in a heavy service that you, creaking your teeth serving, but in a happier and gold joy.
Meaning of communion
First of all, in preparation for the communion there will be awareness of the meaning in communion, so many go to the church because it is fashionable and it was possible to say that you are communched and confirmed, but in fact such a communion of sin. Preparing to the communion, it is necessary to understand that you go to the church to the priest, first of all, for rapprochement to the Lord God and teaching in our sins, and not to arrange a holiday and an extra reason to drink and eat. At the same time, go to pass only because you were forced, it is not good, it is necessary to go to this sacrament at will, cleaning your soul from sins.
So, who wanted to adequately coming around the Holy Taine, should be praying for this in two or three days: pray at home in the morning and in the evening, attend church services. Before the day of communion, it is necessary to be in the evening service. To the home evening prayers is added (from Prayer) Rule to the Holy Communion.
The main thing is to live the heart and the warmth of repentance in sins.
With prayer, it is connected to abstinence from rapid food - meat, eggs, milk and dairy products, with a strict post and fish. In the rest of the food it is necessary to observe moderation.
Those who wish to come should, best of all, before or after evening worship, bring sincere repentance in their sins before the priest, fully revealing his soul and without hiding a single sin. Before confession, it is necessary to reconcile both with its offenders, and with those who offended himself. For confession, it is better not to wait for the questions of the priest, and telling him everything that is on conscience, without excuses himself and not paying blame on others. In no case cannot be condemned to confess anyone or talk about other people's sins. If it is not possible to confess in the evening, you need to do it before the start of the liturgy, as a last resort - to the Khryuvim song. Without confession, no one, except for babies up to seven years, cannot be admitted to the Holy Communion. After midnight, it is forbidden to eat and drink, to the communion you need to come strictly on an empty stomach. To abstain from food and beyti before the Holy Communion it is necessary to teach children.
How to prepare for communion?
Days of fields are usually a week, as a last resort - three days. These days are prescribed post. From the diet, rallier food is excluded - meat, dairy products, eggs, and in the days of strict posts - and fish. Spouses refrain from physical proximity. The family refuses entertainment and watching TV shows. If circumstances are allowed, these days should visit worship in; Temple. More diligently performed the morning and evening prayer rules, with the addition of reading the repentant canon.
No matter when the sacrament of confession is performed in the temple - in the evening or in the morning, it is necessary to visit the evening service on the eve of communion. In the evening, three canons are read before reading a prayer for a dream: our Jesus, the Virgin, the Guardian angel, read to the Lord. Every canon can be read separately, or to use prayer, where these three canons are combined. Then canon is read to the Holy Communion to Prayers to the Holy Communion, which are read in the morning. Those who are hard to perform such a prayer rule in one day, take the blessing of the priest to read three canon in advance during the days of the years.
Children are quite difficult to comply with all the prayer rules of preparation for communion. Parents needed together with the confessor to choose the optimal number of prayers, which will be able to a child, then gradually increase the number of necessary prayers necessary to prepare for communion, up to the full prayer rule to the Holy Communion.
For some, it is a greater difficulty reading the necessary canons and prayers. For this reason, no years are not confess and are not communioned. Many confuse preparations for confession (at which such a large amount of prayers read) and preparation for communion. This can be recommended to start the sacraments of confession and the communion of stages. First, you need to properly prepare for confession and in confessing sins to ask the Council's confessor. It is necessary to pray to the Lord so that it helps to overcome difficulties and gave the power to prepare to prepare the sacrament of communion.
Since it is customary to begin the sacrament of the mission of an empty stomach, from twelve at night they are no longer eaten and do not drink (smokers - do not smoke). The exception is babies (children up to seven years). But children from a certain age (starting from 5-6 years old, and if it is possible earlier), it is necessary to teach the existing rule.
In the morning, they also do not eat anything and do not drink and, naturally, do not smoke, you can only clean your teeth. After reading the morning prayers, prayers for the Holy Communion are read. If in the morning reading prayers to the Holy Communion is difficult, then you need to take a blessing from the priest to read them in the evening. If the confession is performed in the church in the morning, it is necessary to come on time before confession. If the confession was performed on the eve of the evening, then the staffing comes to the beginning of the service and prays with everyone.
Post before confession
For the first time, people who resort to the communion of the saints of the saints of Christ, need a week will be fastening, those who are less likely to arrive, or does not comply with the Wednesday and Friday posts, or often multi-day posts do not even keep it, - three days before communion fasten. There is no animal food, not drink alcohol. Yes, and lented food is not combined, but is a measure of the need for saturation and only. But who is every Sunday (as it should be a good Christian) resorts to the sacraments, you can post only Wednesday and Friday, as usual. Some are added - and at least on Saturday evening, or on Saturday - there is no meat. Before communion from 24 hours is no longer there, and do not drink anything. In the laid days of fasting to use only plant origin food.
It is also very important these days to keep herself from the malice, envy, condemnation, empty conversations and bodily communications between spouses, as well as on the night after communion too. For up to 7 years old, no need to fast, nor confess.
Also, if the first time a person goes to the communion, you need to try to deduct all the rule, read all the canons (you can buy a special little book in the shop, is called "Rule to Holy Communion" or "Prayers with Rule to Communion", everything is clear there). So that it is not so difficult, you can do it, dividing this rule for several days.
Pure body
Remember that in the temple to walk the dirty is not allowed, unless of course the life situation does not require. Therefore, the preparation for the communion implies that the day when you go to the sacrament of communion, you must wash your body from physical dirt, that is, take a bath, shower or go to the bath.
Preparation for confession
Before the very same confession, which is a separate sacrament, (not necessarily after it must follow the sacrament, but preferably), you can keep the post. Confected a person can at any time when he will feel in his heart that he needs to repent, profess sins and as quickly as possible so that the soul is not aggravated. And coming up, properly prepared, it is possible and later. Ideally, if you succeed, it would be nice to visit the evening service, and especially before the holidays or the day of the angel of your own.
It is absolutely not permissible to keep the post in food, but not to change the course of your life: continue to go to entertainment events, in the movie for the next blockbuster, to visit, to sit down the whole day for computer toys, etc. The main thing in the days of preparation for the communion - to live They are excellent from other days of everyday life, not much to work for the Lord. Talk to your soul, feel why she spiritually missed. And to do, what has been postponed for a long time. Read the gospel or spiritual book; visit your loved ones, but forgotten by us; Ask forgiveness from who had to ask him and we were postponed for later; Try these days to refuse numerous attachments and bad habits. Simply put, these days it is necessary to be bolder to be better than usual.
Communion in the church
The sacrament itself occurs in the church in worship, which is called liturgy . As a rule, liturgy is performed in the morning; The exact time of the start of worship services and their days should be recognized directly in the temple in which you are going to go. Usually services begin in the interval from seven to ten o'clock in the morning; The duration of the liturgy, depending on the nature of the service and partly on the number of participants from one and a half to four or five hours. In the cathedrals and monasteries of liturgies served daily; In the parish temples on Sundays and in church holidays. It is advisable to attend the service with its start (for this is a single spiritual action), as well as on the eve of being in the evening worship, which is a prayer preparation for the liturgy and the Eucharist.
During the liturgy, it is necessary to abide in the temple, prayerfully participating in the service until the priest comes out of the altar with the bowl and proclaims: "Let's start with the fear of God and faith." Then the participants line up one after another in front of the Embon (first children and weak, then men and women for them). Hands should be folded crosswise on the chest; Before the bowl is not baptized. When the queue is suitable, you need to become a priest, call your name and open your mouth so that you can put a lie with a particle of the body and blood of Christ. The ace needs to be thoroughly lick lips, and after the lips get into the feet, to kiss the edge of the bowl with a reverence. Then, not applying to icons and not talking, you need to move away from the Ambon and take the "lock" - St. Water with wine and a particle of prosform (in this way, the oral cavity is washed, so that the smallest particles of gifts are accidentally not to delete itself, for example, with sneezing). After the communion, you need to read (or listen to the church) thankful prayers and in the future to carefully store your soul from sins and passions.
How to approach the holy bowl?
Each party needs to know well how to approach the holy bowl so that the communion takes place that happened and without fuss.
Before approaching the bowl, it is necessary to make a terrestrial bow. If there are a lot of participants, so as not to interfere with others, it is necessary to bow in advance. When the royal gates are clarified, it is necessary to cross and fold the hands crucifably on the chest, right hand on top of the left, and with such adding hands to communion; It is necessary to move away from the bowl without spreading hands. It is necessary to approach the right side of the temple, and leave the left free. Altar servants are followed first, then the monks, children and only then all the others. It is necessary to give up the near road, in no case to push. Women in front of communion need to erase lipstick. Suitable to the communion of women with a covered head.
Going to the bowl, it should be loud and clearly called your name, take the holy gifts, december (if necessary) and immediately swallow them, and the bottom edge of the bowl kiss as the edge of Christ. It is impossible to touch the bowl of the hands and kiss the priest's hand. The bowl is forbidden to be baptized! Raising your hand for the godmond, you can accidentally push the priest and pour the holy gifts. Locking to the table with a stuffing, it is necessary to eat an antidor or a prosfora to drink warmth. Only after that can be applied to icons.
If the holy gifts teach out of several cups, you can take them only from one. You can not pass twice a day. On the day, the communion is not customary to get on his knees, with the exception of the bowls of the great post when reading the prayer of Ephraim Syrin, Poklov before the Cryp Road in the Great Saturday and the Crankshaft prayers on the day of the Holy Trinity. Having come home, it follows, first of all, read the gratitude prayers for the Holy Communion; If they are read in the temple at the end of the service, you need to listen to prayers there. After communion until the morning, it is not for nothing to spit and rinse the mouth. Participants should try to keep themselves from idle talk, especially from condemnation, and so that there were no holiday conversations, it is necessary to read the gospel, prayer Jesus, Akathists, Holy Scripture.
The holy secrets are the body and blood of Christ - the greatest shrine, the gift of God is sinful and unworthy. No wonder they are called - the holy gifts.Nobody on Earth can consider themselves worthy to be a Party of Saints secrets. Preparing for communion, we purify our spiritual and bodily nature. We prepare the soul with prayer, repentance and reconciliation with your neighbors, and the body is post and abstinence. This preparation is called showing.
Prayer Rule
Three canon read to the communion are read: 1) Revenue to Lord Jesus Christ; 2) the prayer for the Most Holy Virgin; 3) Canon Guardian Angel. The follow-up to Holy Communion is also read, which includes the canon to the communion and prayer.
All these canons and prayers are contained in the canonic and the usual Orthodox prayer.
On the eve of the communion, it is necessary to be in the evening service, because the church day begins in the evening.
Fast
Before communion attributed to the sense, sampling, the post is bodily abstinence. During the post, animal food should be excluded: meat, dairy products, as well as eggs. With a strict post, the fish is excluded. But lean products also need to be used in moderate quantities.
Spouses, during their time, should refrain from corporal intimacy (5th Rule of St. Timofey Alexandria). Women in cleansing (during the period of menstruation) cannot commoid (7th Rule of St. Timofey Alexandria).
Of course, it is necessary to fast, not only the body, but also by the mind, vision and hearing, keeping his soul from worldly entertainment.
The duration of the Eucharistic post is usually negotiated with the confessor or the parish priest. It depends on bodily health, the spiritual state of communion, as well as on how often it starts to holy secrets.
General practice to fast before communion - at least three days.
Those who are involved often (for example, once a week), the duration of the post can be reduced by the blessing of the confessor to 1-2 days.
Also, the confessor can weaken the post for people of sick, pregnant and lactating women, as well as given other circumstances of life.
Prehapping to the communion after midnight are no longer eaten, as the day of communion comes. You need to communicate on an empty stomach. In no case can not smoke. Some mistakenly believe that in the morning you can not clean your teeth so as not to swallow water. It is absolutely wrong. In the "teacher of news", each priest was prescribed to the liturgy tooth cleaning.
Repentance
The most important point in preparation for the sacrament of communion is to purify his soul from sins, which is committed in the sacrament of confession. In the soul not purified from sin, Christ is not welcomed with God.
You can sometimes hear the view that you need to separate the sacraments of confession and communion. And if a person is regularly confirmed, he can start communion without confession. In this case, usually refer to the practice of some local churches (for example, Eleladskaya).
But our Russian people have been in atheistic captivity over 70 years. And the Russian church is just gradually begins to change from the spiritual catastrophe that has suffered our country. We have very few Orthodox churches and clergy. In Moscow, there are 10 million inhabitants of only one thousand priests. People are unchurceptive, torn off the traditions. Community-parish life is practically absent. Life and spiritual level of modern Orthodox believers are incomparable with the life of Christians of the first centuries. Therefore, we are holding the practice of confession before each communion.
By the way, about the first centuries of Christianity. The most important historical monument to the early Christian writing "Teaching 12 apostles" or in Greek "Didach," says: "On the day of the Lord (that is, on the day Sunday. - about. P.G.), having gathered together, break the bread and thank you, confirming the foregrees of your pregregations, so that the sacrifice was your victim. Wheel, having a fully with his friend, but does not come together with you, until it is reconciled, so that your victim was not desecrated; For such is the adoption of the Lord: at any place and at all time, it should be pressed to the sacrifice to me clean, for I am the Great king, says the Lord, and my name is wonderful in nations "(Didach, 14). And yet: "In the church, confess our sins and do not get up to my prayer with a bad conscience. Such a way of life! " (Didach, 4).
The importance of repentance, cleansing from sins before the communion is undoubted, so we will stop more in more detail on this topic.
For many, the first confession and the sacrament began the beginning of their insertion, the formation of both Orthodox Christians.
Preparing for a meeting of a dear guest, we try to get better in your home, clean up. Moreover, we must with trepidation, reverence and thoroughness to prepare to take into the house of our soul "Tsar of the Regional and Lord dominating." The more attentively, the Christian is following the spiritual life, the more often he is diverse, the more sees his sins and the unnecessaryness before God. No wonder the saints see their sins their countless, as the sand sea. For the reverend Avaway, Dorofey came one noble town dweller of the town of Gaza, and Avva asked him: "Eminent Mr., tell me for whom you consider yourself in your city?" He replied: "I consider myself for the great and first in the city." Then the reverend asked him again: "If you go to Caesaria, who will you consider yourself there?" The person answered: "For the last of the local venel". "If you go to Antioch, who will you consider yourself there?" "" There, "he answered," I will consider myself for one of the commoners. " - "If you go to Constantinople and approach the king, there for whom will you consider yourself?" And he replied: "Almost for beggar." Then Avva told him: "That's the saints, the more approaching God, the more see yourself sinners."
Unfortunately, it is necessary to see that some perceive the sacrament of confession as a formality, passing which they will be admitted to the communion. Taking advantage of communion, we must be responsible for clearing our soul to prevent her temple for the adoption of Christ.
Repentance holy fathers call second baptism, baptism of tears. Just as the water of baptism is washed by our soul from sins, tears of repentance, crying and crushing about the scents, purify our spiritual nature.
Why are we going, if the Lord knows all our sins so? God is waiting for repentance from us, recognizing them. In the sacrament of confession, we ask him for forgiveness. This can be understood on this example. The child climbed into the closet and ate all candy. Father knows perfectly who did it, but waits when the Son himself comes and asks for forgiveness.
The word "confession" means that the Christian has come tell, confess, tell your sins yourself. The priest in prayer before confession reads: "This slave of yours, in short Resolved favor. " The person himself is permitted from his sins through the word and receives forgiveness from God. Therefore, confession should be private, not common. I mean practicing when the priest reads a list of possible sins, and then simply covers the professioned Epithille. The "General Confession" was almost a widespread phenomenon in Soviet times, when there were very little acting temples and on Sunday, holidays, as well as posts, they were filled with praying. To practice everyone was simply unrealistic. The confession after the evening service is also not allowed almost anywhere. Now, thank God, temples, where a similar confession is held very little.
To prepare well for clearing the soul, you need to think about your sins before the sacrament of repentance, remember them. In this we are helped by books: "To help you walk" St. Ignatia (Bryanchaninova), "Experience in building confession" of Archimandrite John (peasantkina) and others.
The confession can not be perceived as soon as the spiritual washing, shower. You can melt in the ground and dirt are not afraid, you still wash off in the shower. And you can go sinning further. If a person comes up to confession with such thoughts, he is not able to rescue, and in court and condemnation. And formally, "asked", the permission of sins from God he will not receive. Not so simple. Sin, passion inflicts harmful harm, and even bringing repentance, a person bears the consequences of his sin. So in a patient who had a poles, remain on the shrama body.
It is not enough to simply confess sin, you need to make every effort to defeat the tendency to sin in your soul, do not return more to it. So the doctor removes a cancer tumor and assigns a chemotherapy course to defeat the disease, prevent recurrence. Of course, it's not easy to immediately leave sin, but repentant should not be a hypocrite: "I'll show off - and then I will sin." A person must attach all the strength to stand on the path of correction, no longer return to sin. A person must ask God for the fight against sins and passions.
Those who rarely confess and are commued, cease to see their sins. They are removed from God. And vice versa, approaching him as a light source, people begin to see all the dark and unclean corners of their soul. Just as the bright sun highlights all the unacceptable surcharges of the room.
The Lord does not expect from us earthly gifts and offenses, but: "The sacrifice of God is crushed, the heart is crushing and humbly, God will not humiliate" (Ps. 50: 19). And getting preparing to connect with Christ in the sacrament of communion, we bring him this sacrifice.
Reconciliation
"So, if you bring your gift to your altar and remember that your brother has something against you, leave there the gift of yours before the altar, and go, before reconcile with your brother, and then come and bring your gift" (MF . 5: 23-24), "tells us the Word of God.
Mortally sins the one who dares to communion, having in the heart of anger, enmity, hatred, unsecured insults.
On what a terrible sinful state, people who start by the communion in the state of anger and non-legal, tells Kiev-Pechersk. "There were two brothers in spirit - Deacon Evagry and priest tit. And they had a great and non-seater love to each other, so all their unity and immense love were divided. I hate good devil, which always walks, "like a roaring lion, looking for whom to absorb" (1 Peter. 5: 8), initiated hostility between them. And he invested such hate in them that they shied apart from each other, did not want to see each other in her face. Many times brethren prayed to reconcile them with each other, but they did not want to hear. When Titus walked with Cadyl, Evagry took care of Fimiam; When Evagry did not shoot care, Tit passed by him, without shifting. And so they stayed a lot of time in sinful darkness, proceeded to the holy secrets: Tit, not asking for forgiveness, and Evagry, angry, - before they armed their enemy. One day, Titi was very painful and, being already at death, began to grieve about his laceration and sent to the deacon with a plea: "Forgive me, for the sake of God, my brother, that I was vainly peeped on you." Evagry also answered cruel words and curses. The elders, seeing that Titus dies, raped by Evagria to river him with his brother. Seeing him, the patient raised a little bit, the NIC fell to his legs and said: "I'm sorry and bless me, my father!" He, a unlimited and lynut, refused to forgive in the presence of everyone, saying: "Never reconcile with him, in this age, in no future." And suddenly Evagry escaped from the hands of the elders and fell. He wanted to raise, but they saw that he was already dead. And he could not stretch his arms, neither the mouth to close as the dead. The patient immediately got up, no matter how sick. And all the sudden death of one and the rapid recovery of the other were horrified. With many years, Evagria was buried. His mouth and eyes remained open, and their hands stretched. Then the elders asked Titus: "What does all this mean?" And he told: "I saw the angels, retreating from me and crying about my soul, and demons that enjoy my anger. And then I started praying my brother to forgive me. When you led him to me, I saw an angel of a nonstick, holding a fiery spear, and when Evagry did not forgive me, he struck him and he fell dead. I also handed the angel and raised me. " Hearing it, I was afraid of the brotherhood of God, said: "Forgive, and you will be forgiven" (Luke 6: 37). "
Preparing for the communion of the saints, it is necessary (if only there is such an opportunity) to ask for forgiveness from everyone who we are volunteled or involuntarily offended and forgive everyone. If it is not possible to do this personally, you need to reconcile with your neighbors at least in your heart. Of course, this happens not just - we are all proud people who touchy (by the way, the haziness always stems from pride). But how can we ask God for the sorry of our sins, rely on their abuse, if you yourself do not forgive our offenders. Shortly before the communion of believers in the Divine Liturgy, the prayer of the Lord is "our own". As a reminder to us that God only "leaves ( forgive) We are debts ( sins) Ours, "when we will leave the" debtor of our ".
Post and prayers before communion
Until this year, I confessed and commited only once in my life, in adolescence. Recently decided to come again, but I forgot about the post, prayers, confession ... What should I do now?
By the canons of the Church before the communion, necessarily abstaining from an intimate life and communion of an empty stomach. All canons, prayers, post - just tools to set themselves on prayer, repentance and desire to be corrected. Even confession, strictly speaking, is not mandatory in front of the communion, but this is if a person is regularly confirmed by one priest if he has no canonical obstacles to the communion (abortion, murder, going to fortune telkams and psychics ...) The blessing of the confessor is not always necessary to confess to communion (for example, bright saddimians). So in your case, nothing really terrible happened, but for the future you can use all these means of preparation for communion.
How much to fast before communion?
Strictly speaking, in "Tipicon" (Charter) states that those who wanted to come must fast during the week. But, first, it is the monastery charter, and the "Book of Rules" (canons) contains only two necessary conditions for those who wish to compete: 1) the absence of the occasion of intimate matrimonial relations on the eve (not to mention the prodigal); 2) Communion should be made on an empty stomach. Thus, it turns out that the post before communion, the reading of canons and prayers, confession is recommended for preparing for the communion for a more complete causing of the repentant mood. In our time on round tables dedicated to the topic of communion, the priests came to the opinion that if a person keeps all four large posts during the year, it will be fastened on Wednesday and Friday (and this time takes at least six months per year), for such a person enough Eucharistic post, i.e. coming on an empty stomach. But if a person did not go to the temple in the temple and decided to take advantage, then it will take a completely different format for preparation for communion. All these nuances must be coordinated with their confessor.
Is it possible to continue to prepare for the communion, if I had to break the post on Friday: I asked to remember a person and gave a unimage food?
You can say about it on confession, but this should not serve an obstacle to communion. For the violation of the post was forced and in this situation justified.Why do you want to write in church Slavonic language? After all, they are so hard to read. My husband does not understand anything read, and is angry. Maybe I read out loud?
In the church, it is customary to conduct services in the Church Slavonic language. In the same language we pray at home. This is not Russian, not Ukrainian and no other. This is the language of the church. There are no mats in this language, and actually learn to understand it can be literally in a few days. After all, he has Slavic roots. This is the question why we use this language. If your husband is more convenient to listen to when you read, you can do this. The main thing is that he carefully listened. I advise you in your free time to sit down and make text with the Church Slavonic dictionary to better understand the meaning of prayers.
My husband believes in God, but somehow in his own way. It believes that reading prayers before confession and communion is optional, it is enough to realize sins and repent. Is it a sin?
If a person considers himself so perfect, almost holy that he does not need any assistance in preparing for communion, and prayers are such a help, then let it comes. But remembers the words of the Holy Fathers that we then compete with dignity when we consider ourselves unworthy. And if a person denies the need for prayers before communion, it turns out, he also considers himself worthy. Let your husband think about all this and with heart care, reading prayers to communion, is preparing for the adoption of the holy secrets of Christ.
Is it possible to be in the evening service in one temple, and in the morning at the communion - in another?
There are no canonical prohibitions of such practices.
Is it possible to read the canons and follow the communion during the week?
Better with attention, thinking in the meaning of readable, so that it was really prayer, to distribute the recommended rule to communion for a week, starting with the canons and ending with prayers to the coming on the eve of the adoption of Tyne Christ, than to subdigently in one day.
How to observe the post and prepare for communion, living in a 1-room apartment with unbelievers?
Holy Fathers teach that you can live in the desert, and in the heart have a noisy city. And you can live in a noisy city, but in my heart there will be silence and peace. So, if we want to pray, then pray for any conditions. People prayed in sinking ships, and in the trenches under the bombing, and it was the most pleasing god of prayer. Who is looking for, he finds the opportunity.
Communion of children
When to make a baby?
If there are blood in the temples in a special bowl of the Blood, then such babies can be seduced at any time, at any time, if only there was a priest. This is especially practiced in big cities. If there is no such practice, you can only make a child only when liturgy is performed in the temple, as a rule, on Sunday and for large holidays. With infants you can approach the end of the service and gently become in general. If you come with babies to the beginning of the service, they will start crying and to interfere with the rest of the believers who will raw and indignant to unreasonable parents. The lock in small quantities can be given a baby of any age. Antidor, a friend will be given when a child is able to use it. As a rule, babies are selected not on an empty stomach to 3-4 years, and then teach to the communion on the hungry stomach. But if a 5-6-year-old child for forgetfulness drank something, ate, it can also be swore.
The daughter comes around the body and blood of Christ. Now she is almost three, we moved, and in the new temple the priest gives her only blood. On my request to give her a part made a remark about the absence of humility. To terms come true?
At the level of the custom, indeed, in our Church of the baby under 7 years of age, only the blood of Christ. But if the child teach to the communion from the most diapers, the priest, seeing the adequacy of the baby, when he grows up, can give the body of Christ. But it is necessary to be very attentive and control so that the child does not spite the part. Usually, the complete communion of babies give when the father and baby get used to each other, and the priest is confident that the child will fully consume the communion. Try to talk once with the priest on this topic, motivating your request to the fact that the child is already accustomed to communion and body, and the blood of Christ, and then humbly accept any response of the father.
What to do with clothes that a child jumped after communion?
Piece of clothing on which the sacrament fell, is cut and burned. Lata hole with some decorative poppip.
The daughter was seven years old, before the communion she would have to confess. How do I prepare her for this? What prayers before coming to read, how to be with a three-day post?
The main rule in preparing for the adoption of holy sacraments against small children can be concluded by two words: do not harm. Therefore, parents, especially mom, should explain to the child, why profess, for what purpose comes. And the laid prayers and canons gradually, not immediately, maybe even read with the child. Starting from one prayer so that the child does not have blocked, so that it was not to be in a burden, so that His Forcedilovka does not pushed him. Similarly, in relation to post, limit the time, and the list of prohibited products, for example, to refuse only meat. In general, first it is necessary that Mom understands the meaning of training, and then without fanatism, gradually he gradually taught her child.
The child is appointed rabies vaccination course. Alcohol-containing it is impossible for him a whole year. What to do with communion?
Believing the fact that the sacrament is the best medicine in the universe when approaching it, forget about all restrictions. And in their faith we will heal the soul, and the body.
The child was prescribed a gluten-free diet (no bread). I understand that we are taking the blood and the body of Christ, but the physical characteristics of the products remain wine and bread. Is the sacrament possibly without biting body? What is included in the wine?
Once again, I repeat that the communion is the best medicine in the world. But, given the age of your child, you can, of course, ask for it to fit only the blood of Christ. Wine that is used for communion can be a real wine made from grapes with sugar adding for a fortress, and maybe a wine product consisting of grapes with the addition of ethyl alcohol. What kind of wine is used in the temple, where you incorporate, you can ask the priest.
Each Sunday was partitioned by a child, but the last time, when approaching the bowl, his terrible hysteria began. Next time, in another temple, everything happened. I'm desperate.
In order not to exacerbate the negative reaction of the child to the sacrament, you can try simply enter the temple without coming. You can try to introduce a child with a father so that this communication smoothes the fear of the child, and over time, he again began to eat the body and the blood of Christ.
Communion for Easter, in a light saddemic, waggers
Do you need to observe a three-day post, deduct the canons and follows to take care of a light week?
Starting from the night liturgy and during all days, the Sedmians are not only permitted by the Sedmians, but also in the 66th rule of the Sixth Ecumenical Cathedral. Preparation These days is reading the Easter canon and the following person. Starting from the week Antipasha, the communion is prepared, both throughout the year (three canons and follows).
How to prepare for communion into solid weeks?
The church as a loving mother cares not only about our soul, but also about the body. Therefore, in anticipation, for example, a pretty heavy great post gives us some reflection in food through a solid sadmits. But this does not mean that we are forced these days there are more in short foods. That is, we have the right, but not a duty. So as you want to prepare for the communion, and get ready. But remember the main thing: First of all, we prepare your soul and heart, cleaning them with repentance, prayer, reconciliation, and the stomach is in the last place.
I heard that I can come to pass on Easter, even if he did not follow the post. Is it true?
A special rule allowing communion for Easter without post and without preparation, no. On this issue, the answer must be given a priest after direct communication with man.
I want to come to Easter, but ate the soup on the unwarted broth. Now I am afraid that I can not compete. What do you think?
Remembering the words of John Zlatoust, who are read in Easter night, that they are not condemned that they are not condemned, and we all rejoice, you can start the sacrament of communion in the Easter night, deeply and sincerely realizing our unnecessary night. And most importantly - bring God not the contents of the stomach, but the contents of your heart. And for the future, of course, it is necessary to strive for the execution and commandments of the Church, including the post.
With the communion, the father in our temple read me for the fact that I did not come on the day of the post at the sacrament, but came to Easter. What is the difference in communion in Easter service and "simple" sunday?
It is necessary to ask your father. For even the canons of the Church welcome the sacrament not only for Easter, but also throughout the bright week. No priest has the right to prohibit a person to commit on any liturgy, if there is no canonically obstacles.
Communion of the elderly and sick people, pregnant women, nursing mothers
How to approach the communion of the elderly at home?
It is advisable for sick people to invite a priest at least a great post. It does not prevent other posts. It is necessary during the exacerbation of the disease, especially if it can be seen that the case goes to death, without waiting for the patient to fall into infamousity, he will disappear a swallowing reflex or vomiting. He must be in a sober mind and memory.
My mother-in-law recently slightly. I offered to invite the father home for confession and communion. She stopped something. Now she is not always in consciousness. Advise what to do.
The church takes a conscious choice of man without raving his will. If a person, being in mind, wanted to start the sacraments of the church, but for some reason did not do, then in the case of clouding the reason, remembering his desire and consent, you can still go on such a compromise as the sacrament and compassion (so we are involved babies or insane). But if a person, being in sound consciousness, did not want to accept the sacraments of the church, then even in the case of the loss of consciousness, the church does not rape the choice of this person and cannot comes off or bite it. Alas, this is his choice. Such cases are considered by the confessor, communicating with the patients and his relatives, after which the final decision is made. In general, of course, it is best to figure out my relationship with God in a conscious and adequate condition.
I am diabetic. Can I take care if I took a tablet in the morning and was it?
In principle, it is possible, but if you wish, you can restrict ourselves to the tablet, coming up at the first services that end in the early morning. Then eat on health. If it is impossible without food as a state of health, then stipulate it for confession and compete.
I have a disease of the thyroid gland, I can not go to the church without drinking water and does not have a snack. If I go on an empty stomach, it will be bad. I live in the province, the ballasts are strict. It turns out, I can't pass?
If it is required for medical records, there are no prohibitions. In the end, the Lord looks not in the stomach, but in the heart of a person, and any competent sensible priest should understand it perfectly well.
For several weeks for several weeks, I can't come true due to bleeding. What to do?
Such a term is no longer called the usual female cycle. Therefore, this is already a disease. And there are women who have similar phenomena for months. In addition, it is not necessarily for this reason, and for some other, the death of a woman may occur during such a phenomenon. Therefore, even the rule of Timothy Alexandrian, prohibiting a woman's communion during the "women's days", however, for the sake of fear of the mortal (threat to life) admissors. In the Gospel there is such an episode when a woman suffering from bleeding is 12 years old, wanting healing, touched to the riz of Christ. The Lord did not condemn her, but on the contrary, she received recovery. Considering all the above, the wise confessor will bless you to come. It is quite possible, after such a medication you will healed the body disease.
Is preparing for confession and communion for pregnant women?
Participating in combat actions, military lifespans are considered as a year for three. And during the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Army, soldiers even issued front-line 100 grams, although in peacetime the vodka and the army were incompatible. For a pregnant woman, the time to wear a child is also "wartime", and this perfectly understood the holy fathers when they were allowed for pregnant women and lactating women in post and prayer. Pregnant women can still be compared with patients with women - toxicosis, etc. And the rules of the church (29th Rule of the Holy Apostles) for the sores are also allowed to light the post up to its full cancellation. In general, each pregnant woman in his conscience, based on the state of his health, itself determines the measure of post and prayer. I would recommend to communion as much as possible during pregnancy. The prayer rule for communion can be made and sitting. You can also sit in the temple, you can come not to the beginning of the service.
General questions about the communion
In recent years, after Sunday liturgy, strong headaches begin, especially in the days of communion. With what it can be connected?
Such cases in various variations are quite common. Look at all this as a temptation in kind and, of course, continue to go to the temple on the service, without leaving this temptation.
How often can you pass? Do I need to subtract all the canons before communion, observe the post and confess?
The purpose of the Divine Liturgy is the communion of believers, that is, bread and wine are implemented in the body and the blood of Christ in order for people to be knocked out, and not just the employee of the Batyushka. In ancient times, a person who was on the liturgy was not accustomed, then was obliged to give an explanation to the priest, why he did not. At the end of each liturgy, the priest, appearing in the royal gates with a bowl, says: "With fear of God and be faithful." If a person commits once a year, he needs a preliminary week post in food, and canons with prayers, and if a person keeps all four big posts, he will fasten every Wednesday and Friday, he can be commsed without an additional post, trying to try the so-called Eucharistic post , i.e., send an empty stomach. As for the rule to the communion, it is necessary to conscious that it is given in order to call us repeated feelings. If we often come up and we have it a penaltious feeling and we are hard to subtract usually before each commander, then you can lower the canons, but it is desirable to read prayers to the communion. At the same time, it is necessary to remember the words of Rev. Ephraim Sirina: "I'm afraid to pass, realizing my unnecessaryness, but even more - to stay without communion."
Is it possible to communion on Sunday, if it was not on Saturday on a whirlpool due to obedience to parents? Sin is sin on Sunday, do not go to the service, if the native needed help?
On such a question, the best answer will give the conscience of man: was there really no other way out in order not to go to the service, or is it a reason to stroll prayer on Sunday? In general, of course, the Orthodox man is desirable for the commandment of God to be every Sunday in worship. Before Sunday afternoon, it is generally desirable to be on Saturday evening worship, and before communion especially. But if for some reason it was not possible to be in the service, and the soul craves the communion, then, aware of his unnecessary, with the blessing of the confessor, you can come.
Is it possible to communion on a weekday, i.e. after the communion go to work?
It is possible, while protecting the cleanliness of your heart.
How many days after the communion do not make belt and earthly bows?
If the liturgical charter (during the Great Post) prescribes earthly bows, then already starting with the evening worship services and need to put. And if the Charter does not provide for Poklov, then on the day the communion only belongs are performed.
I want to come, but on the day, the comicion falls the anniversary of the Pope. How to congratulate your father to not offend?
For the sake of peace and love, you can have a father and congratulate, but for a long time at the festival, do not delay, so as not to "spill" the grace of communion.
The father refused to me in the communion, because I had tinned eyes. Is he right?
Probably, the father considered that you are already quite a mature Christian to realize that the temple go, not emphasizing the beauty of their body, but for the treatment of the soul. But if a man came to come, then under the such pretext, it is impossible to deprive him in order not to scare away from the church forever.
Is it possible to get the blessing from God for some reason? Successful job interview, Eco procedure ...
People are adjacent to the healing of the soul and body, assuming through the sacrament to get some kind of help and God's blessing in good deeds. And Eco for church teachings - the case is sinful and unacceptable. Therefore, you can compete, but this does not mean at all that this communion will help you in the uncomfortable affair. Communion can not automatically guarantee the execution of our requests. But if we generally try to lead a Christian lifestyle, then, of course, the Lord will help us, including in earthly matters.
My husband and I go to confession and communion in different temples. How important is the spouses coming from one bowl?
In whatever Orthodox canonical temple, we have come, anyway, by and large, we are all communion from one bowl, consuming the body and the blood of the Lord of our Jesus Christ. It follows from this that there is absolutely no matter, the spouses or in different, for the body and blood of the Savior are equally the same in one temple.
Bans for communion
Can I go to the sacrament without reconciliation, which I do not have any strength, no desire?
In prayers before communion there is a kind of announcement: "Although Yari, a little man, the body of Lord, the first to reconcile the tasted". That is, without reconciliation, the priest cannot admit a person to communion, and if a person decided to compete self-important, he will take himself in condemnation.
Is it possible to come after the desecration?
It is impossible, it is allowed only to taste the prosfora.
Is it possible to pass if I live in an unbelled civil marriage and on the eve of the communion confused his sins? I intend to continue such relationships, I'm afraid, otherwise my favorite will not understand me.
For a believer man is important to understand God. And God will not understand us, seeing that the opinion of people is more important for us. God wrote to us that the harlons of the kingdom of God do not inherit, and on the canons of the Church of such a sin, for many years it takes a person from the communion, even if he is correlated. And the cohabitation of men and women without painting in the registry office is called Blud, no matter is not a marriage. People who live like "marriages" and enjoying indulgence and kindness of the confessor, in fact very substitute them before God, because the priest has to take on their sin if he admits them to communion. Unfortunately, such an erratic sex life became the norm of our time, and shepherders no longer know where to go to them, what to do with such passes. Therefore, please yourself with your father (this is an appeal to all similar prodigar cohabitants) and leak off your relationship at least in the registry office, and if you are creating, get a blessing for marriage and through the mystery of the wedding. You need to make a choice that it is more important for you: the eternal fate of your soul or temporary bodily comfort. After all, even confession without intention to correct in advance of hypocritical and resembles a hike to the hospital without desire to be treated. Allow you to the communion or not, let your confess.
The priest imposed on me with the Epitimia and took away from the communion for three months, because I had a connection with a man. Can I confess from another priest and coming up with his permission?
For fornication (sex outside marriage), according to the rules of the Church, a person can overcome from the communion not for three months, but for several years. You do not have the right to be superimposed to cancel the other priest.
My aunt went on a wrencher, then confirmed. The priest forbade her to commit three years! How to be?
According to the canons of the Church for such actions (actually - occupation occult), a person is offended from the communion for several years. So everything that made the priest you specified is within its competence. But seeing sincere repentance and the desire no longer repeat anything like that, the term of the penimies (punishment) he has the right to cut.
I have not finally got rid of the sympathy of Baptizm, but I want to go to confession and compete. Or wait until I am completely confident in the truth of Orthodoxy?
Who doubts the truth of Orthodoxy, he can not start sacraments. So try to fully establish yourself. For the gospel says that "in faith you will give you", and not for the formal participation in the sacraments and rites of the church.
Communions and other sacraments of the church
I was invited to be a godfather. What time do I have to come to baptism?
These are not interrelated sacraments. In principle, you must constantly pass. And before baptism, more think about how to be a decent godfather taking care of the Orthodox education of the Khfestable.
Do you need to confess and coming up to cobble?
In principle, these are not interconnected by the sacraments. But since it is believed that the forgotten and unconscious sins are forgiven in the cub, which are the cause of human diseases, there is a tradition, which is that we swear in those sins that we remember and know, and then they were bungled.
Superstition about the sacrament of communion
Is it possible to have meat on the day?
A man when going to receive a doctor, takes a shower, changes underwear ... like this Orthodox Christian, preparing for communion, will fasten, reads the rules, comes more often on worship, and after communion, if this is not a couple, you can eat any food , including meat.
I heard that the time of the communion can not spoil anything and kiss anyone.
On the day, the communion of anyone takes food and makes it a spoon. That is, in fact, and, oddly enough, licking many times a spoon during meals, a person does not eat her together with food :). Many are afraid after communion kissing a cross or icons, but a spoon "kiss." I think you are already clear that all the actions that you mentioned can be made after picking communion.
Recently, in one of the temples, the father in front of the communion was confirmed: "Do not dare to approach the communion of those who, this morning, cleaned your teeth or chewing a chewing."
I also clean my teeth before the service. And chewing chewing chewing. When we clean your teeth, we care not only about yourself, but also that others do not hear unpleasant odor from our breathing.
I always come to the communion with a bag. The worker of the temple ordered her to leave. I was irritated, the bag left and in the state of anger was traveled. Is it possible to approach a bowl with a bag?
Probably, the grandmother devil sent. After all, the Lord has no matter what we have in our hands when we come to the Holy Bow, for he looks in the heart of man. But, nevertheless, it was not worth angry. Just in this confession.
Is it possible to infect some disease after the communion? In the temple, where I went, it was necessary not to lick the spoon, the priest himself threw a part into a wide open mouth. In another temple, I was corrected that I misinterpret the communion. But it's very dangerous!
Upon completion of the service, the priest or deacon uses (donates) the obscency remaining in the bowl. And this is despite the fact that in the absolute majority of cases (about what you wrote, I generally hear the priest "loaded" the communion in the mouth, like an excavator) people communion, taking the sacrament of mouth and touching the lyzia (spoon). I myself have been using the remaining gifts for more than 30 years, and neither I nor anyone from other priests never had any infectious diseases after that. Going to the bowl, we must understand that this is the sacrament, and not a common plate with food, from which there is a lot of people. Communion is not an ordinary food, this is the body and blood of Christ, which in fact initially cannot be sources of infection, as can not be the same source of the icons and holy power.
My relative says that the sacrament on the day of the holiday Sergius Radonezh is equal to 40 communions. Can there be the sacrament of the communion on some day stronger than in another?
Communion on any divine liturgium has the same strength and value. And in this case there can be no arithmetic. The receiving secrets of Christ should always be equally aware of their unnecessary and be grateful to God who admits him to communion.