Penitential Prayers from the Canon of St. Andrew of Crete

1. Go, my wretched soul, with your body: confess to your Creator and bring tears to God through repentance.

2. Father! From my youth I have transgressed Your Commandments, and my life has passed in sins and sloth. Therefore I call upon You: help me by Your Mercy even now to rise from my sins.

3. Grant me, O Savior, the hand that once You extended to Peter, and lead me, O God, out of the abyss of sin. Give me Your mercy through the prayers of the Immaculate Mother, who bore You in purity, and through the prayers of all the Saints.

4. Do not reject me, who has fallen before the doors of Your Mercy, O Savior, as an unworthy servant to eternal torment, but before death grant, O Lover of mankind, forgiveness of my sins.

5. Lamb of God, who has taken away the sins of all people. Lift from me the great burden of my sins and, as the Merciful One, grant me tears of repentance.

6. You, my Judge and Heart-Creator, who will again come with the Angels to judge the whole world, look upon me with a merciful eye. And though I have sinned more than any other person, do not reject me, but have mercy on me, Lord. Amen.

Source: kyrios.org.ua