What are the fruits of true repentance?
Q752 · The Sacrament of Repentance & Confession
St. Basil the Great answers, “the manner of repentance should be appropriate and worthy fruit be shown by those turning from sin through their repentance, as it is written: Bring forth
1453 St. Basil of Caesarea, Regulae brevius tractatae 296.
1454 St. Basil of Caesarea, Regulae brevius tractatae , 13.
fruits worthy of repentance (Luke 3:8),”1455 which was mentioned in its own designated places (which means returning to God).1456
The Fathers cited
- St. Basil the Great