The spiritual-cognitive component of anger were long recognized by our Church Holy Fathers, Saint Basil the Great recognized the loss of reason in anger. "It makes a man completely bestial...in fact, it does not even allow him to be a man at all, because he no longer has the help of his reason."

This is a psalm of repentance and God's mercy, and a prophecy about salvation through baptism (vv. 2, 7). Of all 150 psalms, this is the one most used in Holy Orthodox Church. It is a psalm of repentance said three times daily--Orthros (Matins), Third Hour, and Compline--as well as in every Divine Liturgy, where it is recited by the Orthodox priest as s sign of repentance while he censes before the Great Entrance.

On the first Sunday of Great and Holy Lent is the Sunday of Orthodoxy, the triumph of the only true and authentic Church of Christ our Lord and Savior. The theme of this Sunday since 843 A.D. has been that of the victory of the holy icons. In that year the iconoclastic controversy, which had raged on and off since 726 A.D., was finally laid to rest, and holy icons and their veneration were restored on the first Sunday of Great and Holy Lent. Since then, this Sunday has been commemorated as the "Triumph of Orthodoxy."

"Rejoicing today in the triumph of Orthodoxy on this first Sunday of Lent, we joyfully commemorate three events: one event belonging to the past; one event to the present; and one event which still belongs to the future."

Rejoicing today in the triumph of Orthodoxy on this first Sunday of Lent, we joyfully commemorate three events: one event belonging to the past; one event to the present; and one event which still belongs to the future.

Saint Nikolai Velimirovic emphasized the significance of the continuing adult education and how crucial to the spiritual health of the faithful and community around us when he said, "The better one knows our Orthodox faith, the more he loves it." (Missionary Letters)

All Christians without exception must go to Confession if they wish to be saved. But how should the truly faithful Confession occur? Many do not know this, and that is why is necessary to discuss this question more thoroughly. Here we will look at the following three parts of Confession:

a) What we should do before we go to the confessor.

b) What we should do when we are with the confessor.

c) What we should do when we come out of Confession.