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Repentance, Confession and Spiritual Renewal
Read and listen to teaching on returning to God, confession and the spiritual struggle. The selections bring together a pastoral homily, historical guidance on confession and the monastic teaching of John Climacus.
Where to begin
Begin with Repentance, Confession, Forgiveness. For further reading, distinguish the confession manuals from The Ladder’s wider account of monastic formation; they approach the subject in different ways.
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Repentance, Confession, Forgiveness
Repentance, confession, forgiveness
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Chrysanthos, Patriarch of Jerusalem
Beneficial Teaching on Repentance and Confession
A historical Greek teaching concerns repentance and confession. It belongs to pastoral instruction on the Christian’s return to God.
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Manual of Confession
Nicodemus’s manual concerns confession, repentance and the guidance offered within that sacrament. It belongs to the pastoral tradition of counsel for confessors and penitents. This historical file retains its own edition and extent.
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The Ladder of Divine Ascent
John Climacus describes the monastic struggle through successive steps of spiritual ascent. Repentance, discernment, prayer and love form the movement of this Greek ascetic work.
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