Confession — not a novel but a battle

Protopriest Valerian Krechetov

”How should I tell the priest about my sins? Is a feeling of repentance indispensable during confession? After confession, should one expect a feeling of spiritual relief, or lightness of soul? These beginners' questions often remain troublesome even for very experienced parishioners. Many of us are too fainthearted to ”waste a priest's time” with such ”simple and insignificant” questions. In order to fill in this gap about confession, such ”simple and insignificant” questions were given by our NS correspondent Dmitry Rebrov to the highly-respected Protopriest Valerian Krechetov, the senior father-confessor[1] in the Moscow Diocese and head priest of the Church of the Protection in the village of Akulovo, Moscow Province.