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 O God, be merciful to me a sinner; to me a sinner, who for the very number of my offences am not worthy to raise my eyes to heaven, nor to look up to Thee, O God, Father Almighty.

And O most merciful God the Son, our Maker and our Redeemer, coeternal and coequal with the Father and the Holy Spirit, who camest into this world to save sinners, do Thou take pity on me, who am a sinner, weighed down under the burden of all my offences and evil habits.

O God of mercy, take Thou from me all my offences, past, present, and future; send down from heaven Thy holy helping Spirit, so that my iniquity and my sin may not master me, but that I may have strength to do the penance which is pleasing to Thee, and may thus deserve to obtain Thy mercy.

O God, who alone art all wise. Thou knowest what is best for me a sinner; do with me what seems good in the eyes of Thy Majesty.

O loving Father and merciful God, receive the supplications of Thy servant; and may the prayers which I, a wretched sinner, offer now in Thy sight rise up unto the ears of Thy mercy. Amen.