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in a river, or in the fields, or in the mountains, or by accident, and he wishes to confess and partake of the Eucharist, and he does not have the chance, and he cannot speak his sins, and he dies, what happens to such people? The angel says: It is required that everyone confess his sins every day, and if not, then two or three times a year. And if he is negligent, it is grave. In the final day, he cannot say "I sinned before God," but all that he has done, he says while weeping, and saying "I have sinned" to whomever he meets, God accepts him, for he is bought by the price of His blood, and he is a worshiper of His cross, and a child of the font i.e., baptism, and a confessor of the Trinity. Saint Gregory says: What of the soul whose angel sought faith and baptism, but he did not have it, and it casts him into torments, and he weeps and says, "Lord, have mercy on me, for I am Your creature and made in Your image"? The angel says: That soul that believed in the Trinity through the tongue of others, and when he reached maturity, he denied the faith, such people are always in torments; they weep and groan, and they do not find salvation. Saint Gregory says: What is the fast? The angel says: The fast makes the faster a companion of the angels, and makes him their equal, and it quenches the soul, and the worm a reference to Mark 9:48 it destroys