Achilleion Palace, Corfu, Greece, 2012- former home of Empress Elizabeth of Austria (taken my Martha Wiggins)
I recently came across the following beautiful prayer of contrition. It was part of a leaflet which stated it had been reprinted from the booklet, “Flowers From the Garden of the Precious Blood”, published by the Monastery of the Precious Blood, London, Ontario. I believe it expresses beautifully what we sometimes find hard to put into words. I hope it touches your soul as it did mine.
An Act Of Contrition
Forgive me my sins, O Lord, forgive me my sins – the sins of my youth – the sins of my age – the sins of my soul – the sins of my treacherous body – the sins which by frailty I have committed – my presumptive and crying sins – my idle sins – my serious, deliberate, and voluntary sins – the sins I know – the sins I do not know – the sins I have labored so long to conceal from others and which are hidden from my own memory. Let me be absolved from ALL my offenses and delivered from the bonds of all their evils – through the Life, Death, and Passion of my Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. Amen.
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