“To begin with and I first started to hear confessions I used to release called those who came to make confession.… If he confessed a serious sin then I would look up in the book I would see what it wrote… [a year later he returns] “what did I tell you?” “You told me to do 100 prostrations every night.” “And did you do them?” “No.” “Why not?” “Well you told me that I couldn’t receive communion for 18 years so I thought to myself, “since I’m damned anyway I might as well forget about the whole thing.” Then another person would come and say the same thing. It was then I began to become a little wiser…and changed my tactics in confession.”
Elder Porphyrios
~Wounded by Love