Prayer Immediately Before 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 | p. 137 |
| Scan | leaf 163 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
- a good confession, contrition
Rembrandt, Return of the Prodigal Son, 1636. Cleveland Museum of Art.
TO thee, O merciful Jesus, in the bitterness of my soul, I come, beseeching thee to have compassion on me, and to deliver me from my sins. Enable me, O God, by thy grace, to make a full and sincere confession of all my sins to thy minister. Animate and enlighten him with thy divine spirit of wisdom and charity, that he may discern the true state of my heart, and apply to my guilty soul the merits of the passion and blood of thy Son Jesus Christ. To supply for my want of contrition, I offer thee all the sorrow which thy divine heart felt for my sins in the Garden of Olives, begging, through the merits of that Sacred Heart, that thou wilt cleanse me from them, and grant me the grace to avoid them in future. Amen.
Holy Mary, pray for me.
My good angel, and all ye saints of God, intercede for me.