Prayer After Confession
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. 138–139 |
| Scan | leaf 164, leaf 165 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, amendment of life, protection from temptation
Rembrandt, Return of the Prodigal Son, 1636. Cleveland Museum of Art.
O MOST sweet Jesus! graciously vouchsafe to remember all those holy thoughts that have passed in thy divine mind, from the beginning of the world to this very moment, and particularly thy tender design to become man for the redemption of the world; pardon, through the merits of these, not only all the evil thoughts and vain imaginations I have ever conceived of myself, but those also which I might have excited in the minds of others. Amen.
O most amiable Jesus! look on all the good works thou hast performed for our salvation; and be pleased now to pardon whatever I have committed against thee. Mercifully direct all my thoughts, words, and actions, to thy greater glory, and regulate them by the model of thine own blessed life. Amen.
O God of mercy and pity! having now, through thy gracious goodness, disburdened my conscience of the guilt wherewith it was oppressed, and in the humblest manner I was able, discovered all the sins I could possibly think of to thy minister, my ghostly father, I most humbly beseech thee to accept this confession, and forgive me my trespasses, as well such as I forget as those I remember.
Grant me grace, O Lord, to live more carefully and diligently hereafter, and to abstain from my former follies, which I utterly detest, firmly purposing, through thy grace, never more to offend in them especially. O my merciful and most bountiful Saviour! give me grace to withstand those temptations wherewith I am most grievously attacked—[here they are to be mentioned]—as also to avoid all occasions of offending thee for the future.
O Blessed Virgin Mary! my holy Patron! [name him or her], and all ye saints and angels! praise and extol our Lord for his boundless goodness towards me, a most miserable sinner. Beseech him to accept of this my humble confession, and to supply, through his infinite mercies, all its deficiencies. Beg of him to ratify in heaven the sentence of absolution which his minister, the priest, hath pronounced in my favour at the tribunal of confession. Amen.
O sweet Saviour, for thy bitter passion’s sake, and for thy tender mercy’s sake, forgive and forget what I have been; pity, oh, pity what I am; satisfy for what I deserve, and supply what I desire. Thou didst pardon me when I fled from thee; oh! wilt thou reject me, now that I seek thee?