plaint by reason of all my evil and my sin but unto Thee, O Lord, Thou Saviour and Redeemer of my soul? O Jesus, Son of the living God, have mercy on me, for with Thee nothing is impossible, save to refuse mercy to the wretched.
O sweet Jesus, restore to me Thy grace once more, and receive me into Thy friendship. Look upon me, not according to my merits, but according to Thy goodness. I grieve exceedingly for all the sins whereby I have offended Thee, my kind and loving God. O my God, I detest all my sins even as Thou dost detest them; would that I could grieve for them as Thou dost desire. And to supply what is lacking in my grief, I offer Thee all that aversion to sin, which Thy Son felt and endured in the Garden of Olives, when, by reason of His excessive sorrow and anguish of soul, His sweat fell in drops of blood to the ground; beseeching Thee that
