Fr. Thomas Hopko on CONFESSION

a talk given to A.E.O.M. (then-Antiochian Evangelical Orthodox Mission) priests in Jackson MS by Fr. +Thomas Hopko (of blessed memory), then-new Dean of St Vladimir Seminary.
(edited approx. in half)
As soon as I got this video from the then-popular Orthodox newspaper The Christian Activist (published by Franky Shaeffer), I edited it down from about two hours to about one hour, and showed it to all my catechumens. Later, I burned an edited version on to DVD. I have shown it to every catechism class I've ever had. And now, assigned to St Brendan the Navigator Orthodox Mission in Bullhead City AZ (YES, we ask your fervent intercession!!!), I discovered my DVD gone (the case was empty). Long ago I had made a DVD copy as a backup, and I eventually found that, but it was corrupted and three different recovery places couldn't get anything from it. I asked anyone looking at my Facebook profile, still to no avail. So, I started calling every former AEOM parish, and one (Santa Barbara) suggested I contact the good folks in Jackson MS, because the talk was given there (I didn't know that). So, I looked up phone number for leaders at the former AEOM near Jackson, and Father Herman emailed back that he had a tape! Overjoyed, I bought a VHS player/recorder, and when that didn't allow VHS tape-to-DVD recording, I researched and bought a DigitNow video capture card/hardware, and here is the result. We watched this at St Brendan today, as soon as I transferred it onto my computer and edited it down to just over an hour. Thank God!!!