Which we breathe!

Forgive us for being believers, but our faith is so small;

We are those who pray, but our prayer is so weak! How seldom do you and I meet in real prayer!

And our word, addressed to Thee, turns into soulless muttering.

Forgive us, O Lord, for the fact that, standing before an icon, opening a prayer book or Holy Scripture, even preparing to receive the Holy Mysteries, we are absent-minded, our thoughts wander somewhere sluggish, gloomy, tired. 

How guilty we are before You, that we are often present in church during common prayer only with our feet, as it were, while our heart, insensitive and cold, remains somewhere far away.

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Forgive us, Lord, that we are neither cold nor hot, that we are half lukewarm, that our faith is often ineffective.

We are guilty before You, O Lord, for the weakness of our faith, for the lack of faith of the mind, when attacks against faith stuck in our hearts. It is their fault that they bore bad witness to their faith, that they did not want to delve into its essence, that they were ashamed and renounced it.

We are to blame for our heartfelt lack of faith, when in difficult circumstances of life we began to grumble, instead of completely surrendering to You.

Lord, we live as if You're

with us only on Sunday, at Mass, and the rest of the time we live away from You, on our own.

Forgive us, Lord, for those days when we forget about You altogether!

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God! Forgive us for not thanking You for Your Word that You have given us! That we do not bring it into our hearts, into our lives!

Lord, forgive us that we neglect Your gift, that we read the Holy Scriptures lazily, from time to time, without thinking, without trying to apply these holy words to our lives. How guilty we are before Thee that we do not delve into Thy Word!

God! Forgive us for our negligence! Forgive us for our idleness, spiritual laziness, idle talk, stagnation, negligence

in prayer, for poor preparation

to the sacraments, for all kinds of deceit, unscrupulousness in one's work.