HOLY
FACE PRAYER FOR SINNERS
PRAYER
OF THE BLESSED FACE
ACT
OF CONTRITION VERSION 1
AN
ACT OF CONTRITION VERSION 2
ACT
OF CHARITY
HOLY FACE PRAYER
FOR SINNERS
by St. Therese of
Lisieux
ETERNAL FATHER, since You have given me for my inheritance the Adorable Face of Your Divine Son, I offer that face to You and I beg You, in exchange for this coin of infinite value, to forget the ingratitude of souls dedicated to You and to pardon all poor sinners.
O Blessed Face of
my kind Savior, by the tender love and piercing sorrow of Our Lady as she
beheld Thee in Thy cruel Passion, grant us to share in this intense sorrow
and love so as to fulfill the Holy Will of God to the utmost of our ability.
Amen.
----- Mother Maria-Pierina
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O my God! I am heartily sorry for having offended Thee, and I detest all my sins, because I dread the loss of Heaven and the pains of Hell, but most of all because they offend Thee my God, Who art all-good and deserving of all my love. I firmly resolve with the help of Thy grace, to confess my sins, to do penance, and to amend my life. Amen.
AN ACT OF CONTRITION VERSION 2
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 body;
my idle sins, my serious voluntary sins;
the sins I know,
the sins I do not know; the sins I have concealed
for so long, and
which are now hidden from my memory.
I am truly sorry
for every sin, mortal and venial,
for all the sins
of my childhood up to the present hour.
I know my sins have
wounded Thy Tender Heart,
O My Savior, let
me be freed from the bonds of evil through
the most bitter
Passion of My Redeemer. Amen.
O My Jesus, forget and forgive what I have been. Amen.
O good and merciful
Savior, it is the desire of my heart to return Thee love for love. My greatest
sorrow is that Thou art not loved by all men, and in particular, that my
heart is so cold, so selfish, so ungrateful. Deeply sensible of my own
weakness and poverty, I trust that Thy own grace will enable me to offer
Thee an act of pure love. And I wish to offer Thee this act of love in
reparation for the coldness and neglect that are shown to Thee in the Sacrament
of Thy love by Thy creatures. O Jesus, my sovereign good, I love Thee,
not for the love of the reward which Thou hast promised to those who love
Thee, but purely for Thyself. I love Thee above all things that can be
loved, above all pleasures, and in fine above myself and all that is not
Thee, protesting in the presence of Heaven and earth that I will live and
die purely and simply in Thy holy love, and that if to love Thee thus I
must endure persecution and suffering, I am perfectly satisfied, and I
will ever say with St. Paul:
"Nothing shall separate
me from the love of Christ."
O Jesus, the Supreme Master of all hearts, I love Thee, I adore Thee, I praise Thee, I thank Thee, because I am now all Thine own. Rule over me, and transform my soul, into the likeness of Thyself, so that it may bless and glorify Thee forever in the abode of the Saints. Amen.
Sweet Heart of Jesus,
have mercy on us
and our erring brethren.
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