REPENTANCE. Repentance is like retraining. Anyone who wants to appear before the king,
he takes off his dirty clothes and puts on clean clothes, otherwise he will be banished before the emperor. Why the Orthodox?
people change clothes on Sunday? Because he comes before the King of kings, Who is waiting for us in
the holy temple.
The soul needs retraining more often than the body, because it gets dirty faster than the body. The soul gets dirty
from ungodly thoughts and impure desires. Such dirty thoughts and desires fall on the human soul
like invisible dust every day, which is why every Christian needs to every day
cleanse your soul, change its clothes. That spiritual retraining is done through repentance. And what is that
repentance? Repentance (Greek - metanoia) means change of mind. Repentance, in spirit
meaning arises the moment a person realizes that he has committed a sin and when that sin begins
to burn him in the soul. So, repentance is preceded by knowledge of sin. And sins, or sinful ones
there are many works, practically without number.
