We have come before God and before you and before the ordinances of the Holy Church that we may receive pardon and penance for all our sins in thought, word and deed from our birth until now and we ask of God mercy and of you that you pray for us to the Holy Father of Mercy that He forgive us.
Let us worship God and declare all our sins and numerous offences in the sight of the Father, the Son and the honoured Holy Spirit, of the honoured Holy Gospels and the honoured Holy Apostles, by prayer and faith and by the salvation of all the upright and glorious Christians and blessed ancestors asleep and here present, for their sake we ask you, holy lord, to pardon all our sins. Benedicte, Parcite Nobis.
For numerous are the sins by which we daily offend God,
night and day, in thought, in word and deed, wittingly and
unwittingly, and especially by the desires the evil spirits
bring to us in the flesh which clothes us. |
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Whereas we are thaught by God`s Holy Word as well as by
the Holy Apostles and the preaching of our spiritual brothers
to reject all fleshly desire and all uncleanness and to
do the will of God by doing good we, unworthy servants that
we are, not only do not do the will of God as we should,
but more often give way to desires of the flesh and the
cares of the world, to such an extent that we wound our
spirits. |
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We go with those who are of the world, mixing with them,
talking and eating with them, and sinning in many things
so that we wound our brothers and our sisters. |
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By our tongues we fall into idle words, vain talk, mockery
and malice, detraction of our brothers and sisters whom
we are not worthy to judge nor to condemn their faults.
Among Christians we are sinners. |
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The penance which we received we have not observed as we
ought to have done, neither the fasting nor the prayer.
We have wasted our days and hours. While we are saying the
Holy Prayer our senses are diverted to carnal desires and
worldly cares, so that at this moment we hardly know what
we can offer to the Father of the Just. |
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