If you want to turn back toward God, be at peace because you can only have the desire to repent by God’s grace. This meditation will help answer the question, “How do I repent?” through a long examination of conscience that will help you make a genuine confession and help you overcome the darkness in your life through the power of Jesus Christ’s forgiveness of sins.
When you call upon the Holy Spirit for help as you seek forgiveness and the ability to turn back toward God, He will give you the grace for a genuine confession. This meditation will help you make a thorough confession of your sins against God. Take the time to reflect. Prayerfully ask for the light of the Holy Spirit as you go through each question.
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You can turn back toward God
It is never too late to seek His Face and repent of your sins. If you are wondering, “How do I repent?” please pray and ask Jesus right now to reveal to you, by the power of the Holy Spirit, your sins that need repentance. God in His mercy will reveal to you the sins that most offend Him and separate you from union with Him. Confess them and ask Him for forgiveness.
When we are humble and we confess our sins, when we turn back toward God, we begin a new life.
"When you turn back to God with all your heart, and with all your soul do what is right before Him, Then He will turn to you, and will hide His face from you no longer. Now consider what He has done for you, and give thanks with full voice. Bless the Lord of righteousness, and exalt the King of the ages. In the land of my captivity I give thanks, and declare his power and majesty to a sinful nation. According to your heart do what is right before Him: perhaps there will be pardon for you. As for me, I exalt my God, my soul exalts the King of heaven, and rejoices all the days of my life."
Is Your Heart Empty? Do you Feel Dead Inside?
We are made to be in union with God. Inside each one of us is a desire to have relationship with our Creator, to be known and to know Him. We want to feel unconditional love and belonging. When we try to fill this void with other things there is a want, a lack, a feeling of emptiness that cannot be filled. We must turn back toward God. He gives our life meaning and purpose and he desires us to give him true worship.
Our selfish desires always turn us inward. Over time our wants and desires cause us to lose our love for God and others. They can make us do evil and heinous things that offend God and hurt others. This separation from God leaves us open to more evil temptations that lead us into committing the deadly sins: pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth.
Do you have the peace you desire? Do you have regret? Guilt? Do you feel shame over things you have done and continue to do? Are you at the end of your rope? Are you anxious and desperate for a new beginning? Turn back toward God with all your heart.
"There are very many souls….., who approach Me while knowingly they possess Satan in their lives. Sacrilegiously they receive Me in Holy Communion and after that they cast Me at the feet of Satan whom they have enthroned in their lives with an oath. I pour tears of blood over My Church. Time is short and the everlasting ages are Mine. My Mercy will be followed by Justice…. Satan already knows how short his time is. Such a pitiable state. The souls I love so much do not understand to what extent. Happy and blessed is the soul, animated with My sentiments, remains faithful and who, after a fall, comes back to Me. My Mercy accepts all the pains….. all these lead a soul to the height of sanctity and to the last triumph.”
How do I Repent? I don't Know How to Pray
Advice on How to Turn Back Toward God
If you have a heavy heart and do not know how to turn back toward God, just begin by taking the next best first step. What is repentance? It begins with a sincere regret for the things you have done. Without remorse you cannot have a true repentance. If your conscience gives you a deep sense of shame for the things you have done, just accept the guilt of it. Accept it right now in this moment. Take several minutes to think about the many ways you have hurt others and yourself in your life.
You were made for relationship with God. This is the whole purpose for your life.
If your life lacks purpose it is because you have turned inward and away from God.
Let me repeat, you were MADE for relationship with God. In order for your life to have purpose, you need to turn toward Him and give Him your consent. You need to agree to want what He wills for you. When the angel Gabriel came to the Virgin Mary and told her she would conceive and give birth to the Messiah, her response was “Let it be done unto me according to your word.” She gave her fiat and she lived and continues to live in union with God, fulfilling her eternal mission.
You have a mission. God has a plan for your life too. You have the free will to say yes to His plan for you and give Him your consent, too. Give it to Him today. When you begin to walk the path He has laid out for you many miraculous things will begin happening in your life.
Don’t you want this? Don’t you desire union with God? Friendship with the Creator, a peace that passes all understanding?
If you have turned away from God after having known Him, this is a very deep sin against the first commandment. You must repent of this. Jesus tells us we must love God with all our hearts, all our minds, and all our souls. His whole Gospel message revolves around loving the Father and living your life according to His Holy Will. His ministry calls upon the people to repent and follow Him. He showed us how to radically live within the Divine Will throughout the Gospels. His life was a life of self-sacrificing love. His apostles sacrificed everything to follow Him. Their obedience to the Will of God changed the world.
Why was it necessary for Jesus to sacrifice Himself even unto death, for our salvation?
Why do we need to repent of our sins and purify ourselves to have union with God?
Why must we be in union with God to receive the Holy Spirit?
"Hence, now there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has freed you from the law of sin and death. For what the law, weakened by the flesh, was powerless to do, this God has done: by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for the sake of sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, so that the righteous decree of the law might be fulfilled in us, who live not according to the flesh but according to the spirit. For those who live according to the flesh are concerned with the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the spirit with the things of the spirit. The concern of the flesh is death, but the concern of the spirit is life and peace. For the concern of the flesh is hostility toward God; it does not submit to the law of God, nor can it; and those who are in the flesh cannot please God. But you are not in the flesh; on the contrary, you are in the spirit, if only the Spirit of God dwells in you. Whoever does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the spirit is alive because of righteousness. If the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, the one who raised Christ from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also, through his Spirit that dwells in you. Consequently, brothers, we are not debtors to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh, you will die, but if by the spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live."
Turn Back Toward God, His Divine Love
All of the Old Testament is a story of Divine Love, it is a story of a loving God who was betrayed by mankind over and over again through the centuries. Man has always desired to be master of his own destiny and his own ‘god’. When man lives outside the Divine Will of God and without the gift of the Holy Spirit, he is in enmity with God, and so he produces ‘bad’ fruit in the world which leads to chaos and death.
Man who conforms to the Divine Will of God is given the Holy Spirit to guide him and maintain him in friendship with the Creator. It is this beautiful friendship with God that brings about changes in the soul of the beloved. The soul in friendship with God will grow in the virtues of chastity, temperance, charity, diligence, kindness, patience, and humility.
You can hear God speak to your heart by meditating on Scripture. If you have never developed a habit of meditating on the daily readings of the Mass, try committing to our mental prayer reflections as a way to prepare your heart and mind toward turning back toward God. Begin with our Lenten reflections for Year B or Year C.
Turn Back Toward God Who is Love
A Trinity of Love, God Calls Himself ‘Us’:
“Then God said: Let us make human beings in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the tame animals, all the wild animals, and all the creatures that crawl on the earth.”
God is a Trinity of love, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Read Genesis 1, Genesis 2, and Genesis 3, and then Read John 1:1.
Ponder all this for a moment. Man was made ‘good’ and in the image and likeness of God. But the fallen angel, the evil serpent, tempted the woman, and she and the man sinned against God. This same serpent tempts you and I to fall from grace and sin against God, who is all good and worthy of both our love and fidelity. He tempts us to reject our inheritance that was paid for by the Precious Blood of Jesus Christ on the cross.
God is holy and to be in union with Him we also must be holy too. Our forbidden fruit are all the sins against the 10 commandments.
We must turn back toward God and offer our consent to live our lives within His will for us. And we do this out of love for Him and His will for our lives is based on His love for us.
This is because He is love.
The Holy Spirit is the ‘breath’ of God that comes from the eternal love between God the Father and God the Son.
God is perfect eternal love. This is His essence.
What is the definition of love? It is to will the good of the other for the sake of the other, their eternal greatest good.
God the Father is the eternal ‘knower’ and God the Son is the eternal ‘Word’ who glorifies and adores the Father and is one with Him. The love between the Father and Son is perfect and infinite that it creates a “He” – the Holy Spirit.
Turn Back Toward God and Love One Another
"Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God; everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God. Whoever is without love does not know God, for God is love. In this way the love of God was revealed to us: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might have life through him. In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as expiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also must love one another. No one has ever seen God. Yet, if we love one another, God remains in us, and his love is brought to perfection in us. This is how we know that we remain in him and he in us, that he has given us of his Spirit."
To repent and receive grace, you need to understand the nature of God, why your sin must be confessed, ways to pray, and how to have relationship with Him.
This takes us back to Genesis, when Adam and Eve were told to obey God and not eat of the tree of good and evil. But they ate of it anyway after being tempted by the serpent. Their lack of love toward God and their disobedience to His will caused them to fall out of union with Him. They were separated from the Holy Spirit from that day forward, they and all their offspring, because they broke their covenant with God. Sin entered humanity, and people no longer had union with God and the ability to live in His Spirit.
This is why God the Father sent Jesus Christ His Son. He came so that we may have life and have it to the fullest. God never broke his covenant with us. He wanted to give us an opportunity to have union with Him through His Son Jesus, in order to give us the Holy Spirit. God literally gave us Himself.
When we sin against God we lose that union with His Spirit that gives us an abundant life.
The good news is Jesus came to earth to give us a chance to have union with God once again and be in communion with Him. But this beautiful gift comes at a price. We must desire to live our lives according to the Will of God. If we can submit ourselves to desire what He wills for us, then we will have union with Him and the gift of the Holy Spirit to guide us.
If you are not in union with God due to the shame of sin, please turn back toward God right now. Just repent of your sins with a sorrowful heart, with true remorse, for having rejected this beautiful gift of union with God through the sacrifice of the Most Precious Blood of Jesus Christ.
Once you can feel the loss of having not accepted His gift you are ready for the next step. Ask the Holy Spirit to help you make a true and genuine confession. When you have made a general confession you will once again be in union with Him and full of the Holy Spirit.
Examination of Conscience for a General Confession
Begin by invoking the Holy Spirit to come and help reveal to you the sins you are guilty of committing that have separated you from friendship with God:
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Prayer for Grace of a Genuine Confession
Come, Holy Spirit, into my soul.
I beg you to reveal to my soul all the sins that offend God and need to be confessed. Please, in Your mercy, give me the gift of a genuine confession by helping me to see my sins as God sees them so that I might have true remorse. I beg You to increase in me the gift of repentance so that I may once again feel Your presence and be in union with Your Spirit.
AMEN.
"Go to our confessor; open your heart to him; display to him all the recesses of your soul; take the advice that he will give you with the utmost humility and simplicity. For God, Who has an infinite love for obedience, frequently renders profitable the counsels we take from others, but especially from those who are the guides of our souls."
What is Sin? A Genuine Confession Guide
Am I living within the Ten Commandments?
Use these questions as a guide for your reconciliation with God in making a genuine confession. He is all good and deserving of all your love. By making a genuine confession you will free yourself of all your past sins and be given the grace to overcome habitual sins. With God’s help through a genuine confession, you can be reconciled to Him.
After your genuine confession you will have the grace to conform yourself to God’s image and amend your life. In making this public commitment to change by confessing your sins you will begin to enter into a renewed friendship with God. The genuine confession will fill your heart with love and gratitude toward God and a desire to reconcile with others. It will give you a sense of purpose and a positive direction in life.
Conversion begins with a resolution and the intent to stop committing the sins that have separated you from God. The act of making a genuine confession is a vital step you must take to turn back toward God. If you have a problem with a habitual sin, please keep returning to the Lord to repent and ask for grace with every repeat sin. Never sin with the idea that you will be forgiven. This is a sin of presumption, but if you fall, know that God is merciful and He desires for you to amend your life. It’s like the prodigal son. He longs to reconcile with you.
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First Commandment
I am the LORD your God. You shall worship the Lord your God and Him only shall you serve.
Have I…
- Reserved or harbored hatred for God?
- Reserved or harbored hatred for God?
- Disobeyed the commandments of God or the Church?
- Refused to accept what God has revealed as true, or what the Catholic Church proclaims for belief?
- Denied the existence of God?
- Neglected to nourish and protect my faith?
- Neglected to reject everything opposed to a sound faith?
- Deliberately misled others about doctrine or the faith?
- Rejected the Catholic faith, joined another Christian denomination, or joined or practiced another religion?
- Joined a group forbidden to Catholics? (Masons, communists, etc.)
- Despaired about my salvation or the forgiveness of my sins?
- Presumed God’s mercy? (Committing a sin in expectation of forgiveness, or asking for forgiveness without interior conversion and practicing virtue.)
- Loved someone or something more than God? (money, power, sex, ambition, etc.)
- Let someone or something influence my choices more than God?
- Engaged in superstitious practices? (Including horoscopes, fortune tellers, etc.)
- Been involved in the occult or occult practices? (Séances, Ouija board, worship of Satan, etc.)
- Formally attempted to leave the Catholic Church?
- Hidden a serious sin or told a lie in Confession?
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Second Commandment
You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.
Have I…
- Used the name of God in cursing or blasphemy?
- Failed to keep vows, promises, or resolutions that I have made to God? (specify in the confessional which one; the Priest has authority to remove the obligations of promises and resolutions if they are too rash or unjust)
- Spoken about the Faith, the Church, the saints, or sacred things with irreverence, hatred or defiance?
- Watched television or movies, or listened to music that treated God, the Church, the saints, or sacred things irreverently?
- Used vulgar, suggestive or obscene speech?
- Belittled others in my speech?
- Behaved disrespectfully in the church building? (e.g., talking immoderately in church before, during, after holy Mass)
- Misused places or things set apart for the worship of God?
- Committed perjury? (Breaking an oath or lying under oath.)
- Blamed God for my failings?
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Third Commandment
Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day.
Have I…
- Neglected to set time aside each day for personal prayer to God?
Committed a sacrilege against the Blessed Sacrament? (thrown Him away; brought Him home; treated Him carelessly, etc.) - Received any sacrament while in the state of mortal sin?
- Habitually come late to and/or leave early from Mass?
- Shop, labor, practice sports or do business unnecessarily on Sunday or other Holy Days of Obligation?
- Not attended to taking my children to Mass?
- Not provided proper instruction in the Faith to my children?
- Knowingly eaten meat on a forbidden day? (or not fasted on a fast day.)
- Eaten or drunken within one hour of receiving Communion? (other than medical need.)
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Fourth Commandment
Honor your father and your mother.
Have I…
(If still under my parents’ care)
- Obeyed all that my parents reasonably asked of me?
- Shown disregard for my parents wishes, displayed contempt of their demands, and/or disdained their very being?
- Neglected the needs of my parents in their old age or in their time of need
- Harbored hatred for my parents?
- Brought shame on them?
(If still in school)
- Obeyed the reasonable demands of my teachers?
- Disrespected my teachers?
(If I have children)
- Neglected to give my children proper food, clothing, shelter, education, discipline and care (even after Confirmation)?
- Provided for the religious education and formation of my children for as long as they are under my care?
- Ensured that my children still under my care regularly frequent the sacraments of Penance and Holy Communion?
- Educated my children in a way that corresponds to Catholic religious disciplines?
- Provided my children with a positive, prudent and personalized education in the Catholic teaching on human sexuality?
- Been to my children a good example of how to live the Catholic Faith?
- Prayed with and for my children?
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Fifth Commandment
You shall not murder.
Have I…
- Unjustly and intentionally killed a human being? (murder)
- Been guilty, through negligence and/or lacking of intention, of the death of another? (killing)
- Been involved in an abortion, directly or indirectly? (through advice, encouragement, providing money, or facilitating it in any other way.)
- Seriously considered or attempted suicide?
- Supported, promoted, or encouraged the practice of assisted suicide or mercy killing? (euthanasia)
- Deliberately desired to kill an innocent human being?
- Unjustly inflicted bodily harm on another person?
- Unjustly threatened another person with bodily harm?
- Verbally or emotionally abused another person?
- Gossiped, slandered, detracted, calumniated?
- Hated another person, or wished him/her evil?
- Been prejudiced, or unjustly discriminated against others because of their race, color, nationality, sex or religion?
- Joined a hate group?
- Purposely provoked another by teasing or nagging?
- Recklessly endangered my life or health, or that of another, by my actions?
- Driven recklessly or under the influence of alcohol or other drugs?
- Abused alcohol or other drugs?
- Sold or given drugs to others to use for non-therapeutic purposes?
- Used tobacco immoderately?
- Over-eaten?
- Encouraged others to sin by giving scandal?
- Helped another to commit a mortal sin? (through advice, driving them somewhere, dressing and/or acting immodestly, etc.)
- Caused serious injury of another by criminal neglect?
- Indulged in unjust anger?
- Refused to control my temper?
- Been threatening to, quarreled with, or willfully hurt someone?
- Been unforgiving of others, especially when mercy or pardon was requested?
- Sought revenge or hoped something bad would happen to someone?
- Delighted to see someone else get hurt or suffer?
- Treated animals cruelly, causing them to suffer or die needlessly?
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Sixth and Ninth Commandments
You shall not commit adultery. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife.
Have I…
- Neglected to practice and grow in the virtue of chastity?
- Given in to lust? (The desire for sexual pleasure unrelated to spousal love in marriage.)
Used an artificial means of birth control? (including withdrawal) - Refused to be open to conception, without just cause? (Catechism, 2368)
Participated in immoral techniques such as in vitro fertilization or artificial insemination? - Sterilized my sex organs for contraceptive purposes?
- Deprived my spouse of the marital right, without just cause?
- Claimed my own marital right without concern for my spouse?
- Deliberately caused male climax outside of normal sexual intercourse
Masturbated? (Deliberate stimulation of one’s own sexual organs for sexual pleasure outside of the conjugal act.) - Willfully entertained impure thoughts?
- Purchased, viewed, or made use of pornography?
- Watched or promoted movies and television that involve sex and nudity?
- Listened to music or jokes that are harmful to purity?
- Read books that are immoral?
- Committed adultery? (Sexual relations with someone who is married, or with someone other than my spouse.)
- Committed incest? (Sexual relations with a relative closer than the third degree or an in-law.)
- Committed fornication? (Sexual relations with someone of the opposite sex when the two are not married to one another or any others.)
- Engaged in homosexual activity? (Sexual activity with someone of the same sex)
- Committed rape?
- Engaged in sexual foreplay reserved for marriage? (e.g., “petting”, or excessive touching)
- Preyed upon children or youth for my sexual pleasure? (pedophilia)
- Engaged in unnatural sexual activities? (anything that is not inherently natural to the sexual act; e.g., sex toys, even in the context of marriage.)
- Engaged in prostitution, or paid for the services of a prostitute?
- Seduced someone, or allowed myself to be seduced?
- Made uninvited and unwelcome sexual advances toward another?
- Purposely dressed immodestly?
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Seventh and Tenth Commandments
You shall not steal. You shall not covet your neighbor’s goods.
Have I…
- Stolen? (Taken something that doesn’t belong to me against the reasonable will of the owner.)
- Envied others on account of their possessions?
- Neglected to live in a spirit of Gospel poverty and simplicity?
- Neglected to give generously to others in need?
- Not considered that God has provided me with money so that I might use it to benefit others, as well as for my own legitimate needs?
- Allowed myself to be conformed to a consumer mentality? (buy, buy buy, throw away, waste, spend, spend, spend.)
- Neglected to practice the corporal works of mercy?
- Deliberately defaced, destroyed or lost another’s property?
- Cheated on a test, taxes, sports, games, or in business?
- Squandered money in compulsive gambling?
- Make a false claim to an insurance company?
- Paid my employees a living wage, or failed to give a full day’s work for a full day’s pay?
- Failed to honor my part of a contract?
- Failed to make good on a debt?
- Overcharge someone, especially to take advantage of another’s hardship or ignorance?
- Misused natural resources?
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Eighth Commandment
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
Have I…
- Lied?
- Knowingly and willfully deceived another?
- Perjured myself under oath?
- Gossiped?
- Committed detraction? (Destroying a person’s reputation by telling others about his faults for no good reason.)
- Committed slander or calumny? (Telling lies about another person in order to destroy his reputation.)
- Committed libel? (Writing lies about another person in order to destroy his reputation. Libel is in substance different from slander because the written word has a longer “life” of damage.)
- Been guilty of rash judgment? (Assuming the worst of another person based on circumstantial evidence.)
- Failed to make reparation for a lie I told, or for harm done to a person’s reputation?
- Failed to speak out in defense of the Catholic Faith, the Church, or of another person?
- Betrayed another’s confidence through speech, deed, or in writing?
For a full printable Confession Guide, download this Examination of Conscience Confession Guide PDF.
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After Examining your Conscience
After having discovered the different sorts of sins that you have been guilty of committing, together with their number, enormity, and the amount of malice in your heart toward God and others when committing them, you should now open your heart wide to offer a heartfelt sorrow for having committed them. Sincerely detest having committed them. This is the most essential and most difficult thing needed for making a good confession: the true sorrow for having lived your life in such a sinful manner and having severed your soul from union with God. Ask God for the humility needed to confess these sins with true repentance to a confessor and for the perseverance to never commit such sinful acts again in the future.
Prayer before Making a General Confession
Prayer of Resolution
My Lord and my All,
I am confounded at the multitude and enormity of all my offenses against so good a God. With great humility I ask You, Lord, be merciful to me, a sinner.
My sins exceed in number the sands of the sea. But Your mercies are still greater in number than my sins. O ocean of mercy, have compassion on me. I am nothing but a poor sinner. Make me now, at least, a true penitent.
Father, I have sinned against heaven and in Your sight. I am not worthy to be called Your child. Receive me now as one of the least of your servants, and never let me suffer to stray from You again.
It grieves me, O God, that I have offended You. I am heartily sorry for all the sins I have committed against Your infinite goodness. I wish that I could sufficiently lament them, every single sin with tears of blood for having been so evil and selfish and in enmity with You.
I wish I had never offended You, my God. You are my true Love and Only Good. I wish I had never sinned against You. My shame is so great that I want to escape Your presence. Yet I know You are present to me always. There is no place I can go to escape Your gaze.
Lord, You have said that there is joy in Heaven when one sinner repents and does penance for his sins more than in the 99 souls which remain just. I beg you now, give me the grace to be that one repentant sinner. Help me to turn my cold heart into a heart burning for love of You so that heaven may rejoice at my conversion.
You came, dear Jesus, not to call the just, but sinners like me to repentance. Look down on me right now, I am miserable in my current state. I long to be free from the bondage of my sin. I find myself in this terrible condition because of the many poor choices I have made. I beg You, do not turn Your Face from me. Do not let me remain dead in my sins. Please, God, let me live in You. Send me Your Spirit and renew my soul. Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within my soul. Grant that I may now serve You with fervor so that I may make up for all my past sins. I want to make reparation for the many evil deeds I have done. Please God, flood my soul with grace and then open the doors of healing in my life.
O My God, You have made me, and You have redeemed me by Your Precious Blood. Please God, I want to amend my life. Do not turn Your Face away from Your creation. I am the work of Your hands. Please God, redeem me so that I may offer You all the rest of the days of my life. I promise to live them in service to Your Kingdom.
I beg You please give me a penitential heart. Make me humble so that I may hate my sin and turn away from myself and grow in love for You. I am unable to do this without Your grace. I consent right now to Your intervention. Do with me whatever You Will for the salvation of my eternal soul.
Oh Divine Savior of my soul, how little You are known and loved in this wicked world. How little You are loved. I myself am guilty of not loving You. Please, I beg You, forgive me now. Come right now into my heart and take full possession of it for time and eternity. Do not let me perish in hell. I beg You. Take my heart and make it like Your own.
You promise souls that Your mercy is infinite as long as we repent. I repent now with my whole heart. I have been an ungrateful sinner in spite of the many graces, mercies, and gifts You have given me. Still I rejected Your love and it has destroyed my soul. I cannot live without Your Spirit any longer. I must be in union with You or I die.
I beg You, Jesus, hear this one prayer of mine right now today. You know how desperate I am and how ashamed I am of who I have become and how I have betrayed You. Please turn Your Face toward me and heal me. Give me the grace to amend all that is broken in me and all those I have sinned against in my life. God, give me the grace to never betray Your Love ever again from now to eternity.
I ask all this in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
Turn Back Toward God with this Final Step:
Formally Confess Your Sins
Take the final step. Now that you know how to repent and turn back toward God, make an appointment with a priest for the Sacrament of Reconciliation.
Tell the priest your sins, their number and their enormity. We do this because Jesus Christ told His apostles to do do this in John 20:21-23. This will heal your soul and give you the ability to begin again. This Sacrament has more power than an exorcism for souls in need of a deliverance from evil spirits. By confessing your sins to another (James 5:16) you will be healed. To learn more about other spiritual practices that can help with spiritual oppression, click here.
10 Prayers for Deliverance from Evil
These prayers are suggested for the faithful to pray for deliverance from evil by Fr. Gabriel Amorth.