Prayer for daily confession of a person entering the path of salvation

Having found a secluded place and remaining alone, sit down, reflecting on your life, and bring to mind all the sins you have committed from your youth, both confessed and unconfessed. Having remembered everything, sigh from the depths of your heart, beat yourself on the chest, if possible, and cry. Rising, fall on your knees and lift your mind from the earth to the Throne of God, surrounded by Cherubim and Seraphim. There, having seen with your intelligent eyes God, “sitting on the high and exalted Throne” (Is. 6:1), looking at your conversion, seeing all your ways and listening to what you want to say, fall at His most merciful feet and with fear begin to speak to Him like this: “Most Gracious God, source of goodness, abyss of mercy! My Creator, Redeemer and Savior! To You, who knows the hidden secret and searches hearts and wombs, I confess my sins and offer before the all-seeing Eye aloud to all Your Angel and Archangel of my iniquity. I have sinned, my Lord and Creator (in this and that). Behold my ulcers and scabs and my abscesses, O All-Merciful Physician! Behold my heavy burden, O Good Lord! Behold my cold and my nakedness, O Long-suffering Judge! These deeds of mine have saddened, angered and irritated Your goodness; With these you have desecrated Your image, insulted Your Holy Spirit and driven away My Guardian Angel from yourself; This, Your dearest Blood, shed for me, has been trampled underfoot and imputed to nothing; By these we destroyed the beauty of our souls, exposed ourselves to Thy grace, and created a den of thieves, a dwelling place of demons and passions; With these I have corrupted the Church, redeemed by Your Blood, desecrating my whole body, creating my harlots’ harlots, desecrating my soul with thoughts of foul, blasphemous, proud, vile, prodigal thoughts; deigning and delighting in them, with these joy was a demon, weeping like an Angel, and my soul died, lying, like in a tomb, in an evil custom, sprinkled with the dust of insensibility and rolled with a stone of bitterness. Behold, Lord, my iniquity, which has exceeded my head, which has multiplied more than the hair of my head and more than the number of the sand of the sea. I have confessed this, I am reproaching myself, I am condemning and I am committing guilt to myself, not exactly these things that I have remembered, but I don’t remember them, and I don’t understand them, because they are sins, and I don’t know how to confess them, I put all this into Your great mercy, All-Merciful and Gentle God. Because of the many and many deeds of my cold, because of the greatness of my mind, darkness and madness, because of so many fierce falls and insensibility, I barely came within myself and from the depths of my despair I looked up to Your great mercy, not overcome by all human sins, and saw that you did not want the death of a sinner, but mercifully awaited his conversion, and for the sake of the only You mercilessly poured out Your Blood for sinners, and called them to repentance. Having realized, I, the accursed one, I, the sinner, who has surpassed the sins of the whole world, the second evil deeds of the devil, the imitator of Judas, the fellow crucifier, I, the accursed and lawless one, an indefinable sea of all abominations, a bottomless abyss of all impurities, I, the vile one, a cold-hearted doer of all evil, I come running and fall to You, To the All-merciful and All-generous, in the pain of my heart I cry out with repentance: I have sinned, Father, in heaven and before You, I have sinned and committed lawlessness, I have become a transgressor of Your commandments, I have sinned like no one else has; Your son is not worthy to be called; I am not worthy to look up and see the heights of heaven, I am not worthy to open my mouth before You, having hitherto been Your enemy. But I pray to Your goodness and bring a prayer to Your kindness: have mercy on me, O God, according to Your great mercy and according to Your many bounties, cleanse my iniquities. Have mercy, forgive and cleanse, for there is cleansing from You. Lord, if you want, you can cleanse me. We know that you want to save everyone: save me too, if you can, as much as you want; bow down, O Lord, to mercy, remember Thy ancient mercies and bounties and forgive my sins; do not remember my evil deeds, do not enter into judgment with Your servant, do not reward me for my deeds, neither reprove me with Your wrath, nor punish me with Your wrath. Open for me the doors of Your goodness, open for me the doors of repentance, accept me into repentance and call me to reason, raise up the fallen, seek the lost, find the lost, heal the ulcerated, raise the dead. Lord God of Powers! Turn me, show Your Face, and I will be saved; Make Thy face shine upon Thy servant. How long, Lord, will you forget me completely? How long do you turn your face away from me? Turn Your Face away from my sins, do not turn Your Face away from me, as I grieve, hear me soon. We know that I am not worthy of Thy love for mankind and mercy, but I am worthy of torment, except to endure hell, I am worthy of the never-ending worm, the gnashing of teeth, the pitch darkness, the unquenchable fire prepared for the devil and his angel. I am worthy of Tartarus, for whom Satan himself trembles. Moreover, great is Thy majesty, so great is Thy mercy, and there is no sin, conquering Thy love for mankind. For this reason, I do not despair, but I hope in Your inexhaustible and unceasingly pouring out grace and ineffable mercy on everyone; I trust in You, Lord, and I trust, so that I will not be ashamed forever. You are my hope, O God, but hope does not put you to shame. Do not disgrace me, Lord, at Your Last Judgment before the darkness of the Heavenly Powers and all Your saints. I regret with all my heart that I have angered You, my Creator, who have saddened my eternal and endless goodness with my malice, and Whom I had to unceasingly love and keep Your commandments, Whom, as if I hated, I have inflicted countless sins on myself; Having longed for Him diligently, I thought about It hardly a little and neglected It, I had the sweetest satisfaction of It, I was too bitter about It and rejected it; I had to cleave to the Unman, but I broke away from Him; He alone had to live, He died, but I live by sin, passion and lust; Having feared and revered Him, I have offended and dishonored Him in the lesser brethren and in myself, desecrating myself in deeds, words, and thoughts; Having to thank and glorify Him unceasingly, while remaining with Him, we turned away from Him, ran away in the corrupt ways and were too lazy to open our mouths to the glory of His Most Holy Name. O my desire! Oh my merciful God! Yes, you are not completely angry with me, a sinner. Now I regret everything more painfully and I will not stop regretting it. Oh, so that I never anger You, my Lord! O that I may be counted among the dead first, rather than irritate Thee, my Good Lord! I was born in this world, I was brought up in this world, I live in this world to this day, and do I grieve You, my Lord? May my heart now be dissipated by illness, may my petrification of pity disintegrate and be crushed, may I all wear away like wax, with internal burning, as if I have lost my God, fallen away from His grace, offended His compassion, alienated His love, despised His glory, abandoned His merciful presence. May my eyes be haunted by the source of the water, day and night, because I have not kept Thy law, because I have trespassed many times, and sinned many times before You; My heart is troubled about this, because it trembles with torment, because it faints over the fall of heavenly blessings, as if it were melting away, as if You were angry, all that is good, all that is sweet, all that is dear, all that is desirable, about this I will not cease to regret from now on and forever. May my belly disappear in illness and my years in sighing, may my soul faint in illness, and may my bones be troubled by this, as my God, my Creator, my Lord, my Redeemer, has grieved the grievance. And what will I do? We know that You are Good, my God, Merciful and You, my Creator, Merciful and Generous, You, my Redeemer, are so merciful that You did not spare Your soul, but You laid it down for us sinners, and You did not do us our iniquities, nor repay us for our sins. Behold, I will create, at Your most pure feet I will fall, I will bow and fall and weep before You, the Lord, who created me. I am an abyss of sins, I plunge myself into the abyss of Your mercy, my God, and I pray to You: guide me to true repentance and bring me to my insensible and petrified senses. You received many repentant sinners: David, Manasseh, Josiah, the tax collector, the harlot, the prodigal son, the thief, Peter, Saul, Photinia, Taisia, Pelagia, Mary of Egypt; do not reject me, those who have exceeded their sins; for you have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance. Call me too, above all the most sinful; Even though I have done nothing good before You, grant me, by Your grace, to make a good beginning; and grant me, O Lord, to love Thee, as I have sometimes loved that same sin, and to work for Thee without laziness, as I previously worked for the flattering Satan; Above all, I will work for You, my Lord Jesus Christ, all the days of my life, if You give me Your grace to help me. I truly marvel at Your great long-suffering, O All-Merciful One, for at the time when my iniquities were being committed, You did not bring Your righteous judgment upon me, You rebuked me below with Your wrath, You did not execute me with Your wrath, You did not strike me with lightning from on high, You commanded the earth to bring me down below I am alive in hell and you did not allow any impudent death to kidnap me; and when we were surprised at this, we knew that Your immeasurable mercy had awaited my repentance and long-suffering and merciful correction of my bad life, and leave me without punishment, so that I might come to my senses and recognize my iniquities, and I would leave behind my evil undertakings. But I knew it and came to You with repentance, not of my own accord, but You instructed me and brought me to Yourself. And why did you do this, and why did you move to such mercy, and why do you need to call me? We don’t know; That’s why we know that I am a sinner and irresponsible, and have been Your enemy until now, and have not yet been corrected; but before You You Yourself called and brought me before You, enlighten my mind, open my mouth, teach me what to say before You, and cleanse my many iniquities, wash away my iniquities and abominations, sprinkle me with the hyssop of Your mercy, make me whiter than snow, so that I may not stand abominable and filthy before By you. For I would have nowhere in the dark depths of the earth to be hidden, rather than before the majesty of Thy unapproachable glory in such cold, and naked jelly, and standing with all the filth of sin, scalded and vile, looking at me to all Thy forthcoming Cherubim and Seraphim. But nowhere is there a place that can hide me before Your brightest eyes more than the sun. I am amazed and perplexed at this, how you do not disdain only my vile filth and allow me to stand before You and boldly, moreover, say the river without cold? Why do you not disdain to look at the uncleanness of my heart and the abomination of my soul? How can Thy representatives, suddenly forbidding them with fiery weapons, not reject and wed me from Thy Face? How can they, who are disgusted with me, not throw me bound into utter darkness? But Your kindness and extreme compassion do not want this to happen; Much, truly great is Your mercy, higher than the heavens, the deepest abyss of hell, the most extensive of all earth and sea, Your goodness, which does not even want my destruction, but awaits conversion and rejoices at the repentance of the sinner. Thy great mercy, Lord, always bear with me for a long time, who promised to repent in many ways and again in the same way and the most cruelly fell; I promised repentance many times and confirmed this with oaths, but I lied passionately. I repent, trembling, will it really be, Lord, strike me? And every hour I do the same again. You are also merciful towards me, not destroying me with my iniquities. Glory to Thy long-suffering, glory to Thy mercy, glory to Thy compassion, glory to the multitude of Thy bounties, glory to the many abundance of Thy goodness, glory to Thy merciful Face, Who now stand before Him, my Lord, I offer Thee my will and intention, laid down in the hope of Thy help, from now on, from this day, from this hour, from this day according to strength I will correct my evil and cursed life, but I will be sick and sorry for my past sins to the point of death, but I will be in danger of watching over your help. Weigh, my Lord, that I hate my vile deeds and for my own sake, and I hate my all-filthy life, and I do not want to irritate You, my Good God, with them; Therefore, You, Lord, give me help, because without Your omnipotent help and grace I can’t get behind my evil deeds and sinful customs and do not a single good thing, without You I can’t do anything. I have the will to repent, if You, God, help me, you can cleanse me. Lord, help me, and I will be saved. I believe, Lord, in Your compassion, help my unbelief; I believe that You are near to all who call on You in truth. Truly, truly, truly, I want to turn to You, my God, with all my heart in repentance. God, come to my help, Lord, strive for my help!” After this, rising from the ground, reaffirming your hope in the Lord and meditating on His great goodness and mercy, read Psalm 102 so that your soul may be comforted: “Bless the Lord, my soul, and all that is within me, His holy name,” and so on. If it is impossible for you to comprehend all these words in your memory, then put them in your mind in short articles like this: 1) I confess all my sins to my God; 2) I consider myself unworthy of His mercy, but worthy of eternal torment, 3) however, I do not despair; 4) I humbly ask for forgiveness; 5) I set the intention to correct my life; 6) I firmly believe that my sins will be forgiven.