Praying the Psalms with Augustine and Friends

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Praying the Psalms with Augustine and Friends

from my whole heart and longing, with all the might that You have given to me: turn Your mercy toward me and for the sake of Your reputation do not allow me to lack Your former well-known goodness. Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me! . . . [51:14, 16–17] O God, You are my God and savior. Save me indeed from my sins of blood-guilt, which You know are in me and which I now confess before you. Speech-Narration I would gladly free myself from [my sins] before You, with payment and offering of my body and life as sacrifice. Since, however, that does not please You and is not enough to pay for sins, so I know nothing to bring to You except a broken and quiet heart, a heart that is sad and sorrowful before You because it has so provoked You. Prayer So be gracious to me, O Lord, only for the sake of Your good will, Your great name and Your fatherly mercy, in Jesus Christ the holy, innocent, living sacrifice who redeems me from eternal anguish and fear. Amen.