remission is that one turns another from his sins to God's will.
S34.11.91 The eleventh remission is that, for God's love, one
forgives the sins of the man who has sinned against him. For the Savior said to his apostles, "Forgive and you shall be forgiven."
S34.12.91 The twelfth remission is martyrhood, such as came to pass for the
thief at Christ's passion when the Savior said to him, "True it is that I say to you, that today you will be with me in my father's kingdom."
S34.12.92 And that which the apostle said is not to be neglected: He who sins through his body also should repent through the body, that is in fasting, in vigils, and in entreaty to God with contrition of heart and with the shedding of tears.
S35.01.01These are the divine commands that we ought to observe. First is the true love of God and man, and purity, and fasting, and truthfulness, and to be humble, and moderate, and kind, and patient, and gentle, and hospitable, and generous with alms, and observant in vigils, and to be merciful, and peaceable. And these are the things that we must abstain from: pride, and greed, and envy, and idle boasting, and theft, and rapine, and fornication, and excessive drunkenness, and murder, and false oaths, and lying, and cursing, and strife.
S35.02.01The time comes once a year when one must speak to his confessor, and wit his confessor's permission begin his fast, and to God and to his confessor confess the sins that he has committed, whether manslaughter, or murder, or fornication, or any of those things with which one may sin again God.
S35.02.02You should have right belief (full confidence) in God and in this good season, and eargerly be atoning for that which you know you have done, with your fast and with your alms and with your prayers that you know. And every day you should come to churh and prayer eagerly for yourself there and for all right-believing people and for your confsesor, and then, and then will you be in the prayer (lit., office of prayer: the clergy speaks to the laity) of all of us (i.e., the clergy).
S35.03.01My dear one, I ask that you consider how you were born hither into the world, and through what you were born, when you will (go from) this fleeting world [text missing between world and "and how"? See Thorpe 2:226, line 7], and how your soul and your body shall be separated and, afterward, in which place your soul shall await the Day of Judgment, and also the time when your soul and you body shall be gathered (reunited) and led to God's judgment, (where) you and everyone shall be rightly judged for his own works and receive at that judgment, and afterward, for both body and soul, either eternal life or eternal death, just as you previously merited, either eternal life or unending punishment.
S35.04.01When you arise in the morning, sign yourself very diligently and pray to God; when you go to rest, do the same thing. Reconcile yourself to God through your confession of sins and repentance, so that through that and through his mercy God will, in the world, forgive your sins (and so that you) may rest in the eternal world to come.
S35.04.02My dear one, let us consider what our elders were and what we are now, and how they are now to be seen, those who have for a hundred years been covered by the earty, just as we will be soon when the soul slips from the body.
S35.04.03Let us, my dear one, while we are God so allows us, to defend ourselves against sin and against the evil practices that the devil teaches us, for all anger (fury) comes from the devil and every dispute and all misfortune. So let us resist him and be gracious of mind and ask God's mercy for ourselves.
S35.04.04Let us seek our church on Sundays and massdays, and in between those times always the better and the more often defend ourselves, our bodies and our thoughts, against envy and anger and careless words and against excessive drunkenness and calumny and deceit and against false witness, and against murder and false oaths, and frequent fornication and any kind of uncleanness, so long as God allows us to be here, so that we indeed after (life in) this world might have rest in God's mercy.
S35.05.01
My Lord, I ask of you, you who said in your Gospel to all right-beleiving people, "Petite et dabitur uobis," that is, Ask and you shall receive. I of you then humbly ask, my Lord, that you bestow on me that which I have asked, if it be your will, and rule my soul in eternity, and preserve the blessings of my earthly life.
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