Lord God, Most Merciful, Most Forgiving and Most Loving, Who desires not the death of any sinner but rather that he or she may turn from sin and be redeemed, before You do I confess my sins, and lament them, cast down and humbled in Your presence. I confess that I have sinned before You by pride, avarice, and boundless desire of honours and riches; by idleness, gluttony, greed, debauchery, and drunkenness. I confess that I have offended You by all kinds of sins of the flesh, adulteries, and pollutions, which I have committed myself, and consented that others should commit. I confess that I have offended You by sacrilege, theft, forceful taking of what is not mine, violation of the rights of others, and killing of the soul of people. I confess that I have made wrong use of my possessions, by my prodigality, by the sins which I have committed against Hope and Charity, by my evil advice, flatteries, bribes, and the ill distribution which I have made of the goods of which I have been possessed. I confess that I have repulsed and maltreated the poor, in the distribution which I have made of the goods committed to my charge, and by afflicting those over whom I have been set in authority. I confess my iniquity in not visiting prisoners, by not receiving the poor, by neither feeding the hungry nor giving drink to the thirsty. I confess that I have not been living chastely and piously, and have often fallen into temptation of doing what is evil in Your sight. I Confess that I am guilty of injuring instead of aiding those who demanded help from me, in refusing to give ear unto the cry of the poor, in not respecting the aged, by not keeping my word, by disobedience to my parents, by ingratitude towards those from whom I have received kindness, and by indulgence in sensual pleasures. I confess that I have failed in my Christian walk and duty – in failure in true worship of the day of rest and worship, by not keeping to traditions of the Church, by irreverent behaviour in the Temple of God, by unseemly gestures thereat, by entering therein without reverence, by vain and unprofitable discourse when there, by despising the sacred vessels of the temple, by turning the holy ceremonies into ridicule, by touching and eating the sacred bread with impure lips and with profane hands, and by the neglect of my prayers and adorations. Father, I confess the sins which I have committed by evil thoughts, vain and impure meditations, false suspicions, and rash judgments; by the evil consent which I have readily given unto the advice of the wicked, by lust of impure and sensual pleasures; by my idle words, my lies, and my deceit; by my false vows in various ways; and by my continual slander and calumny. Father, I confess the wrongs I have committed within; the treachery and discord which I have incited; my curiosity, greed, false speaking, violence, malediction, murmurs, blasphemies, vain words, insults, dissimulations; my sins against God by the transgression of the commandment to love, by neglect of my duties and obligations, and by want of love towards God and towards my neighbour. Furthermore, I confess the sins which I have committed in all my senses, by sight, by hearing, by taste, by smell, and by touch, in every way that human weakness can offend the Creator; by my carnal thoughts, deeds, and meditations. In all these I humbly confess that I have sinned, and recognise myself as being in the sight of God the most criminal of all men. I accuse myself before You, O God, and I adore You with all humility. O you, Holy Angels, and you, Children of God, in your presence I publish my sins, so that mine enemy may have no advantage over me, and may not be able to reproach me at the last day; that he may not be able to say that I have concealed my sins, and that I be not then accused in the presence of the Lord; but, on the contrary, that on my account there may be joy in Heaven, as over the just who have confessed their sins in Your presence. O Most Mighty and All Powerful Father, through Your unbounded mercy, grant me absolute pardon and forgiveness of all my sins, for the sake of Your Son, Jesus Christ, our Saviour. Amen
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