examination of the heart 534 O my Jesus, if only (I shall shout this at every moment!) I can love You as You so passionately loved me! If only I die out of love for You Who did not hesitate to die out of love for me, even though You were immortal! ACT OF CONTRITION I repent, my Lord God, of all my sins, faults, and incidents of negligence committed by me in any way during my whole lifetime, but especially since my last general confession. I repent, my Lord God, not because I lost Heaven, not because I deserve hell, not out of natural fear, but out of supernatural love: namely, because I offended You with countless sins, my Creator, Savior, and Leader, Whom I was supposed to love infinitely. I now detest all my evil deeds, faults, and negligences, all the evils I have committed and all the good I have omitted. I love and revere you, my Supreme Good, above all things, and wholeheartedly desire that all would love You, and that You would never be hurt. I plunge all of my faults, O my Jesus, into Your Most Holy Wounds, hoping that for the sake of Your wounds and the sorrows and intercession of the most Holy Virgin and Mother, and for the sake of the merits and prayers of all heavenly beings, especially of my holy Patrons and Patronesses, You would forgive me my faults and grant me the grace of true and perfect improvement and life everlasting. God, be merciful to me, the greatest of all sinners!
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