Shame must exist, but before, not after sin.

 Shame must exist, but before, not after sin. To be ashamed to commit evil, not to be ashamed to confess evil. Repentance is expressed as a confession of sins, as a proclamation. Do not be ashamed to tell your sins. One day the revelation of our sins will take place. Either we will reveal them, ourselves, before a person, to the Spiritual One, or God will reveal them on that Day before all the Angels and people. If we are the first to accuse ourselves with Repentance, all our sins are eliminated and we are acquitted.

Elder Ephraim Philotheus († December 8, 2019)