Repentance

Confession

In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit:

Penitent:  I have sinned before the Most-Holy Trinity, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. I have sinned before God.  I confess before God, the Holy Mother of God and before you Reverend Father, all the sins that I have committed because I have sinned by thought, word and work, willingly and unwillingly, consciously and unconsciously. I have sinned before God / Megha Asdoodzo.

Priest:  God grant you forgiveness.

Penitent:  I have sinned by the power of my spirit, namely by malice, by wickedness, by rash audacity, and by cowardice, by wastefulness and by stinginess, by indecency, and by injustice, by disharmony, by hopelessness and by foolishness. I have sinned before God / Megha Asdoodzo.

Priest:  God grant you forgiveness.

Penitent:  I have sinned by my evil thoughts.  I have sinned according to the desires of my body.  I have sinned by my slanderous tongue, by lying, baring false testimony, not keeping my word, being quarrelsome, being argumentative, being defamatory, by flattery, slanderous vain deceit, cursing, complaining, by discontent, gossiping and swearing. I have sinned before God / Megha Asdoodzo.

Priest:  God grant you forgiveness.

Penitent:  I have sinned by the thievery of my hands.  I have sinned in all that I have accomplished with all the members of my body, with my five senses, and my six movements, deviating right and left, sinning against those ahead of me and being an evil example to those following me.  I have sinned before God / Megha Asdoodzo.

Priest:  God grant you forgiveness.

Penitent:  I have also sinned by the seven-fold transgressions of the deadly sins and all their forms:  Pride, Envy, Anger, Laziness, Covetousness, Gluttony and Lust. I have sinned before God / Megha Asdoodzo.

Priest:  God grant you forgiveness.

Penitent:  I have also sinned against all the Commandments of God, both against the affirmative ones and the restrictive ones, because I have neither done what was expected nor have I stayed away from what is forbidden.  I accepted the laws of God but I was lazy in keeping them.  I was called to the ranks of Christianity, but have been unworthy of it by my works.  Even knowing the evil, I gave way to it and I intentionally stayed away from good works; woe to me, woe to me, woe to me.  Which of my sins can I recount?  Which ones shall I confess?  For, my sins are indeed innumerable. I have sinned before God / Megha Asdoodzo.

Priest:  God grant you forgiveness.

Plea of the Confessor

Penitent:  Reverend Father, in you I have a mediator and an intercessor with the Only-Begotten Son of God.  With the authority given to you (as an ordained priest), I plead that you absolve me from the bonds of my sins.

Absolution

Priest:  Lord have mercy; Lord have mercy; Lord have mercy.

May God who loves mankind, in His mercy, grant you forgiveness for all your sins, both those which you have confessed as well as those that you have forgotten.  Now, with the priestly authority bestowed on me and by the divine command, of our Lord Jesus to His apostles, that:   “Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”

With those same words, I absolve you of all the sins that you have committed in thought, in word and in deed, (†) In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and I reinstate you into full sacramental Communion for participation in the life of the Holy Church, so that whatever good works you may do, may be for your benefit and the glory of life eternal, Amen.