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as a heavy burden have become heavy upon me. Within
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me reigns unchecked pride, vain-glory, impurity, avarice,
envy, gluttony, sloth and all kinds of evil. What shall I
do, wretch that I am, or where hide myself from the face
of the anger of God? Alas, O my Lord God, how many
are my wounds, how utter the weakness of my soul! To
whom shall I pour out my complaint by reason of all my
evil and my sin, but unto thee, O Lord, thou Saviour and
Redeemer of my soul? O Jesus, Son of the living God,
have mercy upon me, for with thee nothing is impossible,
save to refuse mercy to the wretched. O sweet Jesus,
restore to me thy grace once more, and receive me to thy
friendship. Look upon me, not according to my merits,
but according to thy great goodness. I grieve exceedingly
for all the sins whereby I have offended thee, my most
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kind and loving God. O Lord my God, I hate, I abhor, I
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detest and abominate all my sins even as thou dost
execrate and abhor them; would that I could grieve for
them as thou dost desire! And to supply what is lacking
in my grief, I offer thee all that contrition, all that sorrow,
all that aversion from sins, which thy Son felt and
endured in the Garden of Olives, when by reason of his
excessive sorrow and anguish of soul his sweat fell in
drops of Blood to the ground, and all his bowels were
troubled within him; beseeching thee that thou wouldst

is lacking to mine, and to absolve me from my sins.
Amen.
now vouchsafe to accept that contrition in supply of what
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