During the sacrament of reconciliation – or confession – we are invited to acknowledge our sins and make an act of contrition before God. Sometimes it is difficult to recognize sin in our lives. Praying before confession can help us. Here are three sample prayers to prepare for the sacrament of reconciliation.
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Prayer to make a good confession
“Oh, Holy Spirit, source of all light, come to my aid and allow me to make a good confession.
Bring to my mind all the bad things I’ve done and the good things I haven’t done. Grant me, moreover, a true sorrow for my sins and the grace of a sincere confession. Mary, my Mother, help me to make a good confession. ”
Prayer before the examination of conscience
«My Lord and my God, who investigates the hearts and knows the consciences of men: give me the grace to sincerely examine my sins and to understand their malice. Make me confess them well and amend them, so that I deserve your forgiveness and your grace in this life, and later eternal glory. Amen.”
Prayer before confession
Receive my confession, most merciful and merciful Lord Jesus Christ, the only hope for the salvation of my soul. I ask you to give me contrition of heart and tears in my eyes, so that I can cry day and night for all my negligence with humility and purity of heart. Oh Lord, my God, receive my prayers.
Savior of the world, good Jesus, who gave yourself to the death of the Cross to save sinners, look at me, miserable sinner, invoking your Name, and do not look at my sins so that you forget your goodness; and if I have sinned, so that I deserve damnation, do not lose what you have decided to save. Be merciful to me, You who are my Savior, and have mercy on my sinful soul. Break my chains, heal my wounds.
Merciful Lord, for the merits of the most pure and Immaculate always Virgin and Mother of yours Mary, that you left us as Mother, and of all the Saints, send your light and your truth to my soul, so that all my defects appear clear before me. , those that I must confess, and may this help me and teach me to manifest them fully with a contrite heart. You, O God, who lives and reigns forever and ever. Amen. »
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