Act of Contrition: Forgive My Sins, O Lord
The Dominican Manual, 1913Source and notes
Source
| Printed in | THE Dominican Manual: A SELECTION OF PRAYERS AND DEVOTIONS, AUTHORISED BY THE CHURCH, AND ENRICHED WITH NUMEROUS INDULGENCES. |
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| Imprint | Dublin, BROWNE AND NOLAN, LTD., NASSAU STREET., 1913 |
| Pages | pp. 135–136 |
| Scan | leaf 161, leaf 162 of the Internet Archive copy |
| Approval | Nihil Obstat: THOMAS O’DONNELL, Censor Theol. Deput. Imprimatur: ✠ GULIELMUS, Archiep. Dublinen., Hiberniæ Primas. Die 16ᵒ Junii, 1913. |
| Rights | Public domain in the United States. |
- Prayers for
- forgiveness of sins, contrition
The Bedford Master, Pentecost, book of hours, about 1420. Cleveland Museum of Art.
FORGIVE my sins, O Lord, forgive my sins—the sins of my youth—the sins of maturer years— the sins of my soul, and the sins of my treacherous body; the sins which by frailty I have committed; my presumptive and crying sins; the sins I have committed to please others; the sins I have committed to please myself. Forgive serious, deliberate, voluntary sins; the sins I know and the sins I know not; the sins I have laboured so long to conceal from others, and which now, alas! are hidden from my own recollection. Let me then, O Lord, be absolved from all my offences, and delivered from the bonds of all their evils, through the life, passion, and death of my dear Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.