F orgive me, O Lord, O Lord, forgive me my sins, the sins of my youth, and my present sins, the sin that my parents cast upon me, original sin, and the sins that I cast upon my children, in an ill example; actual sins, sins which are manifest to all the world, and sins which I have so labored to hide from the world, as that now they are hid from mine own conscience, and mine own memory. Forgive me my crying sins, and my whispering...
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Loving Heavenly Father, I come again to worship you in the wonder of who you are. I confess my sins to you, dear Heavenly Father. Wash me clean in my Savior’s precious blood from all that offends you. I recognize with my person a fleshly nature that can be rebellious in your sight. I affirm that in my union with Christ in his death I am dead to the rule of the fleshly nature. I desire the new nature you have placed within me to be in...
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Lord, I confess that you are good, and that to you all gentleness and love belong. And when there comes upon me the great pain of my heart and head, it is to you that I must look, and the look must be one of love, not reproach. If any should be reproachful it is you, who have stretched out your hands all the day and I would not. O Lord, my God, I stand upright when I should bow and kneel: how else can I learn but through the...
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Act of Contrition O my God, I am heartily sorry for having offended you, and I detest all my sins, because I dread the loss of Heaven, and the pains of hell; but most of all because they offend you, my God, who is all good and deserving of all my love. I firmly resolve, with the help of your grace to confess my sins, to do penance, and to amend my life. Amen. The prayer starts O God, come to my assistance. O Lord, make haste to help...
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