Holy Angel of Christ! Falling down I pray to you, my guardian saint, given to me for the preservation of my sinful soul and body from Holy Baptism. But with my laziness and my evil custom I angered your most pure lordship and drove you away from me with all the evil deeds: lies, slander, envy, condemnation, contempt, disobedience, brotherly hatred and resentment, love of money, adultery, rage, stinginess, gluttony. satiety and drunkenness, long talk, evil and crafty thoughts, proud customs and lustful indignation, self-desire for all carnal lust. O my evil will, which even beasts do not do without words! How can you look at me, or approach me like a stinking dog? Whose eyes, Angel of Christ, look upon me, entwined with evil in vile affairs? But how can I ask for forgiveness for my bitter and evil and crafty deed, I fall into misery all day and night and at every hour?
But I pray to you, falling down, to my holy guardian: have mercy on me, a sinful and unworthy servant of your name, be my helper and intercessor against the evil of my opponent, through your holy prayers, and make me a partaker of the Kingdom of God with all the saints, always and now and ever and unto the ages of ages. Amen.