Prayer for Pardon of Faults
I have consecrated my entire self to you, and taking me by your right hand you have led me with your counsel. But in my human frailty I have sinned both in word and deed may times against you, who alone are pure and without sin. Therefore, accept my prayer together with the tears I offer you through your holy ones, the victors in the arena, Purify me, this poor handmaid of yours, so that on departing toward you my passage may be hastened.
Saint Melania the Younger
Roman Patrician and Ascetic
