O Lord, forgive me if I have sinned in my mind or my thought,
whether in word or in deed.
O Lord, free me from all ignorance and forgetfulness,
from despondency and stony insensibility.
O Lord, deliver me from every temptation.
O Lord, send down Thy grace to help me,
that I may glorify Thy name.
O Lord my God, even if I had not done anything good before Thee,
do Thou help me, in Thy grace, to make a good beginning.
O Lord of heaven and earth, remember me, Thy sinful servant,
full of shame and impurity, in Thy kingdom.
Amen.
- selected from a prayer of John Chrysostom