Prayer before Confession
My Lord and God, I have sinned. I am guilty before You. Grant me the strength to say to Your minister what I say to You in the secret of my heart. Increase my repentance. Make it more genuine. May it be really a sorrow for having offended You and my neighbor rather than a wounded love of self.
Help me to atone for my sins. May the sufferings of my life and my little mortifications be joined with the sufferings of Jesus, Your Son, and cooperate in rooting sin from the world.
Confession of Sins
I am sorry for my sins with all my heart. In choosing to do wrong and failing to do good, I have sinned against You whom I should love above all things. I firmly intend, with Your help, to do penance, to sin no more, and to avoid whatever leads me to sin. Our Savior Jesus Christ suffered and died for us. In His name, my God, have mercy.
Prayer for the Forgiveness of Sins
My Jesus, I place all my sins before you. In my estimation they do not deserve pardon, But I ask You to close Your eyes to my want of merit and open them to Your infinite merit.
Since You willed to die for my sins, grant me forgiveness for all of them. Thus, I may no longer feel the burden of my sins, a burden that oppresses me beyond measure.
Assist me, dear Jesus, for I desire to become good no matter what the cost take away, destroy, and utterly root out whatever You find in me that is contrary to Your holy will. At the same time, dear Jesus, illumine me so that I may walk in Your holy light.
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