“Do You Have a Ticket?”: Concerning Repentance and Confession; A Humble Guidebook to Aid Us on the Journey Back to Our Father’s House

Publication Data: Etna, CA: Center for Traditionalist Orthodox Studies, 2007
Format: softcover
Number of Pages: 86
Dimensions (l × w × h): 21.3 cm × 13.8 cm × 0.6 cm
Additional Information: two-color printing, two-color illustrations
ISBN: 0‒911165‒23‒1

   
Second Edition

Metropolitan Cyprian of Oropos and Fili
Translated by Hieromonk Patapios

“When one is about to go on a journey, my beloved brother in Christ, to any part of the world whatever, by one of the usual means of public transport, he cannot do this unless he has first booked the requisite ticket. [...]Can you travel without a ticket? No! So if we cannot travel in this transitory world without having the appropriate ticket, all the more are we unable to make the great journey from earth to Heaven, to Paradise, to the eternal Kingdom of our Savior Christ, without one. If you happen to board a means of public transport in order to reach your destination and do not have a ticket, you will be put off at once. In the same way, when a man’s miserable soul sets out after death on its journey to Heaven after its separation from the body, unless it has a ticket, unless it has been suitably prepared, it is not led to Paradise, but ends up in fearful Hades, in eternal misery.”
—“1. The Heavenly Journey”

◆ Prologue
1. The Heavenly Journey
2. The Ark of Salvation
3. Our Salvation as a Divine Gift
4. Repentance
5. Confession
6. Only to a Hierarch or a Priest
7. The Moral Condition of the Confessor
8. Only by Confession Are We Cleansed
9. With Boldness and Contrition of Heart
10. Even a Single Deadly Sin, If Unconfessed, Punishes Us
11. Not Three Times a Year
12. “Guide to Confession”
13. After Confession
14. Divine Communion
15. Attentiveness to Thoughts
16. “And If I Fall Again?”
17. An Indispensable Condition for Our Salvation
◆ Entreaty