A Devout Prayer for Pardon Through the Passion of Christ

I ADORE and bless thee, O most gentle Lord Jesus, as thou hangest on the tree of the cross, and pourest out thy roseate Blood in expiation of the sins of the world. I accuse myself now with sincere contrition of heart of the manifold insults and infidelities whereby I have grieved thee. O good Jesus, I confess that by reason of my vile and shameful sins I am the cause of thy passion and death, and that in thy passion my sins were more grievous to thee than the buffetings and the stripes of the rude soldiers. To thee, therefore, I confess and acknowledge my malice and my iniquity, and I prostrate myself before thy cross, in the spirit of humiliation, imploring thy forgiveness. I cast all my iniquities and my sins into the depths of thy mercy and clemency, and into those bleeding wounds which thou didst receive for my salvation; beseeching thee that thou wouldst so wash them away and efface them with thy most precious Blood and the all-cleansing water from thy sacred Side, that thou mayest remember them no more for ever. In perfect expiation and satisfaction for all the sins which I have committed by thought, desire, and the perverse affections of my heart, I offer to thine eternal Father thy immaculate Heart with all the treasures it contains. And for all the vain and hurtful words my lips have spoken, do thou set forth before him all the words which issued from thy most sacred mouth. And for all the sinful deeds which my hands have done, show him thy pierced Hands, and so appease thy Father with thy unspotted innocence, that through thee I may now obtain forgiveness of all my crimes. And to this end I offer thee that ineffable sweetness of delight which one divine person communicates to another in the most adorable Trinity. Amen.