Confession is one of the most important church sacraments, during which one becomes aware of one’s unworthy actions and cleanses oneself from them. What is said in confession remains a secret to everyone except the person being confessed and the priest.
Absolution means freeing one's soul from everything unworthy and shameful, and confession is obligatory when one feels the approach of death. Based on the meaning that confession has in the life of a believer, it can be argued that a dream of such content is a sign that something has happened or will soon happen in the dreamer’s real life for which he needs to repent.
You may have a frank conversation about topics that you would prefer not to discuss. In some cases, a dream about confession can be a harbinger of death.
Why do you dream about confession?
Confession appears in a dream, according to dream books, as a signal that you are worried about an act you have committed. Seeing yourself confessing in a dream, according to Astromeridian’s dream book, means keeping a secret for which you are ashamed, but you cannot reveal it to anyone. If you dreamed that someone was confessing to you, it means you have to learn something difficult, become a support for a loved one who trusts you with a secret. According to a number of dream books, confession in a dream means danger, the appearance of enemies who seek to harm you.
Forgiveness of sins and debts
How does the dream book interpret confession seen in dreams? If in a dream you happened to confess to a priest in church, you will not complain about your health for many years. If a person suffering from an illness had a dream, he will soon recover. If the priest conducted the service, in reality the time will come for success and harmonization of your inner world.
Why do you dream of confessing to a priest, according to Miller’s dream book? For an unmarried woman who sees her confession in a dream, the interpreter predicts special attention from an unknown person. You will be shown signs of interest and sympathy. Take a closer look at this person - perhaps you will see your future spouse.
If in a dream during confession you dreamed of a priest who showed you attention, then in reality someone close to you will reproach you for craving for entertainment. Listen to the advice of your relatives, but do not forget about your interests, because you live to experience new sensations.
Why do you dream of confessing, according to the Modern Dream Book? In a few days you will have to commit an act that goes against your moral principles. This will happen because sometimes you give yourself slack and fail to show strength of character. To avoid unpleasant situations in the future, train your willpower, then you can easily refuse adventures.
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If in a dream you saw how a stranger wanted to confess to a priest, and you accidentally observed this process, in reality someone wants to take advantage of your merits for selfish purposes. Be aware of your surroundings and don't let people manipulate you.
If you look into Loff’s dream book, confessing in a small remote church in a dream means that in reality you will be able to achieve unprecedented success and popularity thanks to your personal qualities. Try to show yourself well in front of your superiors, and promotion will not be long in coming.
During confession, did the priest not listen to you at all and was distracted by something else in his sleep? In reality, a conflict with a colleague at work is possible. You will be confident that you are right, just like your opponent. The dream book advises not to bend your line until the end of the dispute, but to be the first to meet halfway and take a step towards a compromise. This way, you can continue cooperation and complete the task much faster and easier.
Why dream about Confessions // dream book of Simeon Prozorov
Confession - You confessed - your actions will provoke a scandal and a break in relations. Watched confession - you will learn about the betrayal of friends. You were confessed - you will have the opportunity to see the person you love in an unusual light. How to improve the meaning of sleep? Imagine that confession ended with the forgiveness of sins. Your soul is light.
If you see a confessor in a dream, you are going to confess - to the approach of some kind of misfortune due to your ill-wishers. Confessing in a dream also means analyzing your own life, striving for self-improvement. Insincerity interferes with your relationships. Imagine that confession ended with forgiveness of sin. Your soul is light.
Down with anxiety and sadness
According to the Dream Book of Psychology, confessing in a closed cell promises you a long, strong union with your lover.
You can always rely on your loved one in any matter. If a single man sees such a dream, soon on his life’s path he will meet a worthy woman with whom he can enter into a happy marriage. We recommend: Praying in your sleep
If you are a student and see yourself in confession, according to Tsvetkov’s dream book, this means that you are experiencing strong anxiety before the exam and cannot force yourself to calm down. The interpreter advises to take a break from preparation and imagine how you have completed your training and taken a deep breath. This feeling will help you shift your attention and forget about fear and anxiety for a while.
To see in a dream how countless people have gathered for confession, and you are standing at the end of the line, means in reality you will have to work hard so that your superiors appreciate your efforts and distinguish you from the rest. You can achieve a lot, the main thing is to properly motivate yourself and strive for your goal.
If during confession you received the priest’s blessing, in real life your financial well-being will sharply improve, and you will finally be able to afford the thing that you have long wanted to buy. Author: Zoya Krupskaya
Why do you dream about Confession according to David Loff’s dream book?
You dreamed that you had to confess; in life, this dream foreshadows that you will commit an unworthy act, for which you will be ashamed and which you will try to hide from everyone, although in your soul you will worry and repent. If you confess someone, being in the role of a priest, then this dream speaks of an approaching difficult period when one of your friends or acquaintances will need your help, but it will not be easy for you to console him. Listening to someone's confession foreshadows the opportunity to receive some information that will make you think again about your attitude and life position, because it will touch the innermost strings of your soul.
What does it portend?
If the dreamer receives forgiveness from a church minister, it means that someone very much wants to harm him and his loved ones in reality, and will go to great lengths to carry out his terrible plan. The presence of a person in church during someone’s confession prompts a new, more correct awareness of life values. Perhaps the person confessing in a dream really wants to do the same thing in real life, thereby reducing his debilitating mental torment. Seeing a priest in a dream means having a large number of shortcomings and weaknesses.
To correctly interpret dreams, it is necessary to remember not only the main essence and main events, but also small details and various nuances. This will definitely help you find out the secret of these dreams. To obtain the correct interpretation of a dream, it is best to look for information in several dream books.
The above decoding of a dream, where there is a confession, will help people understand themselves and learn about upcoming events in their lives. It is very important to pay attention to your own dreams, because it is thanks to them that you can change your destiny for the better.
Commandment 7: “Thou shalt not commit adultery.”
“A wife must not divorce her husband, ... and a husband must not leave his wife” (1 Cor. 7:10-11). If divorce can happen, it will be done legally and for legitimate reasons. We are not talking here about external third-party reasons that are presented not by the husband and wife themselves, but by other persons in the latter’s position or at the special requirement of the law: these reasons (for example, marriage in a prohibited relationship or minors) are rather unpleasant for the persons being divorced than desirable. One of the spouses can legally begin divorce proceedings for reasons either physical or moral.
The physical side here is the physical inability for marital cohabitation, if, however, this inability by nature remained hidden before marriage (St. Law 10, part 1, art. 46–49), and did not occur in the marriage itself, as a misfortune . But even here, “whoever can contain it, let him contain it” (Matthew 19:12), i.e. the best sacrifice to God on the part of the offended person would be the determination not to demand a permitted divorce, but to remain married for the sake of friendship and mutual help: an elderly husband and wife live together, who no longer have carnal communication with each other, and perhaps also did not have never children. In the sense of a physical reason for divorce, one can accept a reference of this kind, when the guilty person is deprived of all rights of the estate or is irrevocably exiled: another (innocent) person, of course, cannot be charged with a moral obligation to bear the same fate. (If a husband or wife remains without any news, then a lenient divorce of this marriage is also possible after 5 years (Ust. Cons. p. 231–237); and in the case of an unknown absence to war (the husband has gone too far and does not notify about himself) or capture (on the road somewhere in the outskirts, the infidels took the wife from the husband and carried her away to their borders), in these cases, since they offer more hope for the return of the unknown person, the period for divorce is double, or 10 years (Uk.sin.1855). But even the most irrevocable exile, with the apparent dissolution of a marriage, does not always internally dissolve the marriage. In favorable circumstances this time, the marriage can be resumed, for example, if the exile is unexpectedly forgiven or turns out to be innocent, and the spouse left at home I have never sought a legal divorce before.
The moral reason for divorce should first of all be called the desire to enter monasticism. But assuming in divorce, as a necessary quality, coercion on some part, or bondage, regarding the husband and wife entering monasticism (at legalized ages, i.e. for the first - 40, and for the second - 30, and according to mutual with their consent (St. Law 9, Art. 252), we cannot talk about divorce here at all. No; those who enter monasticism in the proper sense are not dissolved by marriage, although in fact and before the law their separation by force forever followed monastic vows. Their marriage is elevated even more: instead of a carnal and external connection, an exclusively spiritual connection can remain between them, through correspondence about spiritual life and through verbal notification of each other. (Reverends Andronikos and Athanasia were saved together in monastic form, only the first did not recognize in the last one, his wife, who put on a man’s dress (Thurs. Min. on Oct. 9)).
In the strict sense, a moral reason for divorce can be marital infidelity: “except for the guilt of adultery” (Matthew 5:32). This is the most important thing that allows for divorce and at the same time confirms the strictness of marital relations! But generally speaking, in Orthodoxy there should be no marital divorce. Why? Because, firstly, that the husband and wife constitute “one flesh”, two halves of the whole human being, so that the first married couple (Adam and Eve) was assigned one name “man”: “and God created man... man and a woman” (Gen. 1:27). Then, Christian spouses bear the banner of the union of Christ with the Church, which is never dissolved. And finally, divorce always harms and causes grave offense to the weakest half, which, without a doubt, is the wife. Therefore, “what God has joined together, let no man put asunder” (Matthew 19:6). Divorce would then be tolerable or useful as a temporary measure, when people did not understand in husband and wife unity in the flesh and in the spiritual mystery of marriage, when, out of their ignorance, they did not recognize universal human rights for a woman, and would be close in their rudeness to that to take the lives of their wives. Such was the ignorant state (hard-heartedness) of the Jews (and then in a later time) (Deut. 10:16), for whom divorce was permitted by the Law of Moses. “But at first (before the Fall) it was not so (Matthew 19:8).
Applying these general judgments about the indissolubility of Christian marriage to the practice of life, we will be fully convinced, on the one hand, of the unfoundedness of the reasons for which divorce is defended: and, on the other hand, of the unattainability of the desired goal by divorce. Yes, the Gospel commandment about divorce, although strict and seemingly cruel, is easy to fulfill and useful for the spouses themselves. Will spouses point out the “difference in their characters” in order to afford a divorce? But the difference in their characters is natural. Moreover, sometimes it is their own fault: it is their late marriage, which makes it difficult to reconcile or use too different characters. This means they need to blame themselves, and not a church marriage that does not allow divorce. And in any case, they should study each other’s characters with a view to applying them to each other, and study them at the beginning of married life, remembering, however, that some shortcomings can unexpectedly be encountered in each other (especially in a wife), even after five years. ten years. Will they complain “about daily troubles in married life, most often the wife’s oppression by her husband”? But we also encounter oppression in other especially close human unions or relationships, for example, in the service. If everyone in the world resorts to divorce as a remedy for violation of rights; in this case, people will constantly have to disagree with each other. Let another be a tyrant of his wife, even if he attempted to kill her life: still, for such isolated cases, it would be unwise to make the law on divorce common to all in cases of oppression and cruelty. “Has the husband indulged in excessive drinking? Did he squander his wife’s dowry or, on the contrary, did the drunken wife take away everything she could get her hands on from the house?” But, without a doubt, the weak will come to an even worse state if they are abandoned. Yes, then drunkenness and extravagance may be joined by another vice, relationships with strangers, or adultery. Is it consistent with marital vows to only wish or allow a married person to strive for a worse state? Isn’t the party that abandoned their couple directly responsible for another’s sin of adultery? “Whoever divorces...except for the guilt of adultery, gives...cause" to the person being divorced to "commit adultery" (Matthew 5:32). And why should strangers then take into their care or only tolerate the completely drunk or inebriated woman who is abandoned, and not those whose husband it is or whose wife it is? A dry hand does not work and disfigures the body, but they do not cut it off: why completely cut off your wife, who can still sooner be corrected than a dead member in the body? or why does a wife cut off her husband from herself, like a whole body from the head, which naturally then dies?
Finally, “marital infidelity itself, at least the first proven experience of it, does not excuse divorce and will not bring any benefit.” The Gospel teaching: “is the word adulterous” is not an indispensable law for divorce, but only a permission or justification for it. The husband will undoubtedly sin if he does not accept a wife who repents and promises to be faithful. If the first infidelity in the marital bed is not forgiven and reasonable measures are not taken against this infidelity on the part of another person who remains innocent: then with divorce many infidelities will be repeated. It is known about the ancient prophet Hosea that he married a harlot, but then completely corrected his wife. Divorce due to adultery is understood by many as follows: “the husband has the right to kick his wife out as soon as he is convinced of her infidelity. And if he himself admits infidelity, and even several infidelity: this is excusable for him and he has nothing to fear that his wife can legally leave him.” Is this view of husbands, often justified in practice, fair? Not at all. Let a woman, aware of her weakness by nature, value her husband more than her husband does, and therefore let them not use reasons for divorce. Let in the Old Testament, in relation to the undeveloped morals of people, the female sex was more severely condemned for adultery (Judg. 15:6; Jer. 3:1), and in the New Christianity at first there was a custom that gave the husband more rights to divorce according to about adultery than to the wife (Vas. Vel. 21:9). But the Apostle Paul gives the law on marital fidelity first to the husband (1 Cor. 7:3). Vows of marital chastity during a church wedding are pronounced equally by both husband and wife. If the body of the husband is at the same time the body of the wife, then the husband must keep his wife’s property intact, and not waste and diminish this property through adultery. No; The Orthodox Church, contrary to Greco-Roman laws, does not at all grant a husband any more rights to divorce his wife; She does not leave her husband to the mercy of a strong person, to immediately expel the guilty wife from himself due to adultery, and in other cases, she does not allow the wife to divorce her husband just because of her whim and impatience (1 Cor. 7:35), for example, I would run away to my parents. Preaching the equality of husband and wife in moral qualities, the Christian law just as strictly judges a wife who has once fallen, as well as a husband who has been exposed at least once in a fall. Briefly: a Christian marriage is so morally high that whether the husband is depraved or just stupid and lazy, whether the wife reaches the point of drunkenness or is just unattractive in appearance, only extremely annoys the husband with her obstinate character - all this the spouses must sacrifice to another higher goal of marriage, about which the Apostle speaks: “This mystery is great; But I speak into Christ and into the church” (Eph. 5:32). And thus, divorce in a Christian marriage should not be “for any fault” (Matthew 19:3), that is, for the sake of every trouble or arbitrarily. Thus, in the full sense or decisively, both the one who, having released or removed his wife from himself, takes another female person for cohabitation, and those who live with expelled wives, as well as a wife who, after divorcing her husband, lives dishonestly, are considered adulterers. (Mark 10:11–12). And in the Old Testament there was such a punitive law this time: when a wife, kicked out by her husband, was again kicked out by another husband who accepted her, or widowed after this second husband, the first husband, even feeling pity for her or needing cohabiting with her, he had no right to return her to himself (Deut. 24:2-4). And so it is best not to allow divorce between Orthodox Christians. And if there is a legal or good reason for it, then it cannot happen arbitrarily, but only with the permission of the same Christ's authority that combined it. Neither the priest can give anyone a so-called “letter of divorce”, nor the entire local church authority (excluding divorces due to exile and unknown absence) does not resolve issues of divorce on its own. The resolution of these issues belongs to the highest spiritual authority (the Holy Synod) (Ust.d.cons., Chapter 6).
Spouses living in an unauthorized divorce from either party! Why do you remain opponents of the Christian law? If you want to be among the true Christians, then hasten to fulfill God’s commandment, which applies to you: “if (the wife) divorces, she must remain single, or be reconciled with her husband” (1 Cor. 7:11), i.e. Yes, “make peace.” And if you don’t want to return to your previous marriage, which was dissolved by one of you without permission, i.e. if you know strangers: where is your faith in this case, where is your respect for the name of a Christian? After this, do not force the priest, as a spiritual father, by coming to him for confession and demanding permission for your sins and permission to begin the Holy Mysteries. Leave the vain self-justification that “you involuntarily become sinners-adulterers, because your heart boils at the mere thought of insults from the person with whom you decided to divorce, and because at the same time you cannot refrain from lawless copulation.” The Lord God never puts a person in such a state that a person will certainly commit grave sins. If you do not want to humble yourself before each other, both the grieving and the grieving party, and at the same time do not keep yourself in chastity: then we also repeat to you the law on proper divorce. Ask and ask for a divorce, sincerely revealing your reasons. But if the Church does not recognize your reasons as valid, then you have no choice in your situation but to return to your previous marriage, and in any case, leave an outside relationship or only temporarily the sin of adultery. Oh, for the sake of God, for the sake of your soul, correct your life!
Dreaming of a priest in a black cassock
In your dream, the priest was dressed in a cassock, not the easiest period is coming. During this time, you will be prone to introspection and rethinking many things. You will gain a lot in finding yourself and your path, but for this you will sacrifice many things.
In the dream, the holy father’s cassock was black; in reality, melancholy, sadness and despondency await you. According to other interpretations, circumstances may arise in the dreamer’s life that threaten the lives of loved ones. In addition, the dream indicates that you should not imitate other people or elevate or idealize them too much. In other words, do not make yourself an idol.
If the priest in your dream was dressed in a white cassock, good luck and success await you. In addition, you can safely count on help and support from other people. If you touched the white robe of the holy father.
