Month: April 2019

O my most loving Father!
in the bitterness of the dolorous Passion of Jesus Christ,
Thy Son, I now pour forth my complaint,
indignantly accusing myself that 
I have served Thee so unfaithfully 
during this day and have offended Thee,
my most amiable and loving Father,
by so many and so great negligences.
I grieve for them from my inmost heart,
and strike my breast in the spirit of compunction,
and say unto Thee, O God!
be merciful to me a sinner.
And for all the negligences whereby 
I have extinguished Thy good 
and gentle Spirit within me,
I offer Thee the sufferings 
and the tears of Thy beloved Son.
I beseech Thee,
in union with His most availing prayers, 
to grant me pardon of my sins,
and to supply all my defects.
Deign to hear this, my prayer,
through that love which held back 
Thine arm from taking vengeance,
when Thine only and most beloved Son,
the object of Thine eternal and unspeakable complacency,
was numbered with transgressors.

Amen.

Forgive me my sins, O Lord, 
forgive me my sins; 
the sins of my youth, 
the sins of my age, 
the sins of my soul, 
the sins of my body; 
my idle sins, 
my serious voluntary sins; 
the sins I know, 
the sins I do not know; 
the sins I have concealed for so long, 
and which are now hidden from my memory. 

I am truly sorry for every sin, mortal and venial, 
for all the sins of my childhood up to the present hour. 

I know my sins have wounded Thy Tender Heart, 
O My Savior, let me be freed from the bonds of evil 
through 
the most bitter Passion of My Redeemer. Amen. 

O My Jesus, forget and forgive what I have been. 

Amen.

O Lord Jesus, lover of our souls, 
who, for the great love with which You loved us, 
willed not the death of a sinner, 
but rahter that he should be converted and live, 
I grieve from the bottom of my heart that I offended You, 
my most loving Father and Redeemer, 
to whom all sin is infinitely displeasing, 
who so loved that You she Your blood for me, 
and endured the bitter torments of a most cruel death. 
O my God, my inifinite Goodness, 
would that I never offended You. 
Pardon me, O Lord Jesus, 
as I most humbly implore Your mercy. 
Have pity on a sinner for whom Your blood pleads 
before the face of the Father. 

O merciful and forgiving Lord, 
for the love of You, 
I forgive all who have ever offended me. 
I firmly resolve to forsake and flee from all sins, 
and to avoid the occasions of them, 
to confess, in bitterness of spirit, 
all those sins which I committed against Your divine 
goodness, 
and to Love You, O my God, 
for Your own sake, 
above all things and for ever. 
Grant me grace so to do, 
most gracious Lord Jesus.

Amen.

Merciful Father, I am guilty of sin. 
I confess my sins before you and I am sorry for them. 
Your promises are just; 
therefore I trust that you will forgive me my sins 
and cleanse me from every stain of sin. 
Jesus Himself is the proposition for my sins 
and those of the whole world. 
I put my hope in his atonement. 
May my sins be forgiven through His Name, 
and in His blood may my soul be made clean.

Amen.

Oh my God,
I am heartily sorry for having offended thee.
I detest all my sins because of your just punishments,
but most of all because they offend thee, my God,
Who art all good and deserving of all my love.
I firmly resolve, with the help of Thy grace,
to sin no more, and to avoid the near occasion of sin.

Amen.

O my God, 
I am sorry and beg pardon for all my sins, 
and detest them above all things, 
because they deserve Thy dreadful punishments, 
because they have crucified my loving Saviour Jesus Christ, 
and most of all because they offend Thine infinite goodness; 
and I firmly resolve, 
by the help of Thy grace, 
never to offend Thee again, 
and carefully to avoid the occasions of sin.

Amen.

I desire, O my Saviour, 
humbly to offer Thee the sacrifice of a troubled spirit 
and a contrite heart. 
I grieve from my inmost heart 
that I have ever offended Thee by my sins, 
Thee my God and my chief good, 
Thee who art so gracious to me, 
and so oft refreshest me in Thy Blessed Sacrament. 
I grieve especially for the sins of 
[name(s) of the person(s)]
which Thou knowest, 
Thou searcher of our hearts, 
and which I, a miserable sinner, 
do confess in the bitterness of my soul. 
Would that I had never offended Thee! 
Yet a contrite and humble heart, O God, 
Thou wilt not despise; 
Thou who for love of us didst give to us 
Thine Only-Begotten Son, 
to wash us from our sins in His own Blood. 

Amen.

My God, I detest all the sins of my life. 
I am truly sorry that I have sinned, 
because Thou art infinitely good 
and sin displeases Thee. 
Have mercy on me and pardon my offences. 
I am resolved to avoid the occasions of sin 
and never again offend Thee.

Amen.

O Jesus, loving Spouse of my soul, 
the longed-for moment draws near; 
the happy moment, in which I, Thy unworthy creature, 
shall receive the most Holy Sacrament of Thy Body and 
Blood, 
as the most effectual remedy for all my miseries. 
For the love the Thee 
I grieve most bitterly for every one of my sins 
and for all my negligences, 
whereby I have offended Thy tender goodness, 
and defiled my soul, 
which Thou didst ransom with Thine own most precious 
Blood. 
How shall I presume to receive Thee into a heart 
all surrounded with briers and thorns of earthly 
attachments, 
reeking with unwholesome vapours of worldliness and vain 
desires! 
But, my merciful Jesus, 
though I am sick of soul, 
I remember the words which fell from Thine own gracious 
lips,
that they who are whole need not the physician, 
but they who are sick,
and this gives me confidence. 
Surely, my Lord, 
if anyone has cause to trust Thee it is I! 
Others may have their innocence or their virtues to fall 
back on, 
but I have Thy mercy, 
Thy great mercy, only. 
I have made myself undeserving of it, 
but when hast Thou ever treated me as I deserved? 
Where should I be now if justice and not mercy had had its 
way? 
Good Jesus, Who didst invite the blind and the lame, 
the poor and the needy, 
to Thy supper, behold, as one of them, yea, 
even as the poorest and most wretched of them all, 
I will draw near to the most sacred Feast of Thy Body and 
Blood, 
the banquet of the angels, 
not in presumption, 
but with a contrite and humble heart, 
with lowly confidence, 
with hope in Thy goodness and mercy, 
with love in return for all Thy love, 
with fervent desire to please Thee, 
to live henceforth according to Thy Spirit, 
and in the imitation of the virtues of Thy sacred Heart 
that I may praise and glorify Thee eternally. 

Amen.

Most sweet Jesus,
Redeemer of the human race, 
look down upon us humbly prostrate before You. 
We are Yours, and Yours we wish to be; 
but to be more surely united with You, 
behold each one of us freely consecrates himself today 
to Your Most Sacred Heart. 
Many indeed have never known You; 
many, too, despising Your precepts, have rejected You. 
Have mercy on them all, most merciful Jesus, 
and draw them to your Sacred Heart. 
Be King, O Lord, 
not only of the faithful who have never forsaken You, 
but also of the prodigal children who have abandoned You; 
grant that they may quickly return to their Father’s 
house, 
lest they die of wretchedness and hunger. 
Be King of those who are deceived by erroneous opinions, 
or whom discord keeps aloof, 
and call them back to the harbor of truth 
and the unity of faith, 
so that soon there may be but one flock and one Shepherd. 
Grant, O Lord, to Your Church assurance of freedom 
and immunity from harm; 
give tranquility of order to all nations; 
make the earth resound from pole to pole with one cry: 
Praise to the Divine Heart that wrought our salvation; 
to it be glory and honoUr for ever.

Amen.