Act of Contrition: Turn Not, O Lord
The Catholic’s Pocket Prayer-Book, 1899Source and notes
Source
| Printed in | THE CATHOLIC’S POCKET PRAYER-BOOK. |
|---|---|
| Imprint | BOSTON, THOMAS J. FLYNN & CO., 1899 |
| Pages | pp. 150–151 |
| Scan | leaf 158, leaf 159 of the Internet Archive copy |
| Approval | Imprimatur : ✠ MICHAEL AUGUSTINE, Archbishop of New York. New York, Oct. 13, 1899. |
| Rights | Public domain in the United States. |
- Prayers for
- contrition, forgiveness of sins
The Bedford Master, Pentecost, book of hours, about 1420. Cleveland Museum of Art.
TURN not, O Lord, a deaf ear to my supplications; be appeased by the lamentations of a heart sincerely repentant for its sins. O that my sorrow could equal their enormity. O agonizing Lord, infuse into my heart one drop of that bitterness with which Thy soul was overflowed in the garden of Gethsemane, that I may thereby be rendered truly contrite. Pardon me, O merciful God, for all the sins that I have committed, or to which I have been accessory; pardon me for the good which I have neglected to do, or which I have done badly; pardon me for all the sins of which I acknowledge myself guilty and those I may have forgotten. I detest them, and I wish to repair, at the price of all that is dearest to me, the misfortune of having offended Thee.