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Faith Q&A › Catechism › 19. The Sacrament of Repentance & Confession

What is grief according to God and grief according to the world? (cf. 2 Cor.7:10).

The answer

St. Basil the Great answers, “Grief according to God is when we grieve over the neglect or transgression of the commandment of God, as it is written: Grief has seized me because of sinners who forsake your law (Ps. 118:53), but it is grief according to the world when we are grieved over some aspect of human affairs or of those things which pertain to the world.”1467

Fr. Tadros Yacoub Malaty

Notes

1467 St. Basil of Caesarea, The Rule of St Basil in Latin and English: A Revised Critical Edition, trans., Anna M. Silvas (Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 2013) Q. 50: p. 153.

Fr. Tadros Yacoub Malaty, Catechism of the Coptic Orthodox Church, Volume 1, Books 1–3. First English Edition, 2023. Published by St. George Coptic Orthodox Church, Sporting, Alexandria, and Queen St. Mary & Prince Tadros Coptic Orthodox Church, South Brunswick, NJ. Copyright © 2023. Translation and Editing: Youth of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the USA, Canada, Europe, Australia, Arabian Gulf, and Egypt.