Prayer of
Confession
I make my
confession to God the Father Almighty and to His beloved
Son, Jesus Christ, and to the Holy Spirit, n the presence
of our Lady the Virgin ever sacred in her virginity and
all the holy Angels, of Michael, of Gabriel, chief of
angels both, and Saint John the Baptist, the Holy
Apostles, Saint Peter and Saint Paul and the four and
twenty prophets, of the Twelve Apostles, of the Four
Evangelists, of the Seventy and Two sent forth. I confess
the faith of the three holy councils of Nicea,
Constantinople and Ephesus, trusting in the most noble
priesthood ascribed unto you, father priest, by which you
set loose and bind. I have sinned through all my senses
both inwardly and outwardly in word in deed and in
thought. My sin is great, very great, and I repent of it
most sincerely purposing not to fall again into the same
ever. Preferring death rather than to embrace sin. And I
ask you, by the authority of the sacred priesthood, that
you absolve me of my sins, asking God to pardon me through
His grace. Amen