Looking for a specific prayer: help

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I’m looking for a specific prayer:

goes something like

I am nothing before God, I am nothing but my sins…yada, yada, yada

Heard about it on Mother Angelica’s show rerun where she talked
about it, but maybe not exact wording.
 
RB2 said:
I’m looking for a specific prayer:

goes something like

I am nothing before God, I am nothing but my sins…yada, yada, yada

Heard about it on Mother Angelica’s show rerun where she talked
about it, but maybe not exact wording.
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Google it and it might come up under an article she done?
 
Does this sound right?

I desire to look into my soul and give You the only possessions that are totally mine to give—my weaknesses and sins. Yes, my Father, these alone are mine—everything else comes from Your loving Providence. Every virtue I am able to practice is the fruit of Your Presence in my soul. Every material possession, every talent is Your gift to me.

Truly, as I present myself before You, Lord God, I stand as one who has only one personal possession to offer—my sins. I will look at them in the light of the gospel and present them to You to change and transform into virtues, to heal the terrible blemishes on my soul, to pour the balm of mercy upon my deep wounds, to close forever the cuts of bitterness and to wash away the dead skin of old resentments.

This is just part of it (it’s from the “Biblical Examen” section which is pretty long. here is the link to the whole thing: ewtn.com/library/mother/ma49.htm
 
thanks for you help.
Thats not it, had already perused this article.
 
There are two prayers that I say frequently: It is not what you requested, but similar to it.

Oh, Holy Spirit of God

Come into my heart and fill me. I open the windows of my soul to let You in.

I surrender my whole life to You. Come and possess me; fill me with light and truth.

I offer to You the one thing that I really possess: My capacity for being filled by you.

Of myself I am an empty vessel.

Fill me so that I may live the life of the Spirit: The life of Truth and Goodness, the life of Beauty and Love, the life of Wisdom and Strength.

And guide me today in all things. Guide me to the people I should meet or help…

To the circumstance in which I can best serve you, whether by my actions or my sufferings.

But above all, make Christ to be formed in me, so that I may dethrone self in my heart, and make Him King, so that He is in me, and I in Him.

Amen.

Psalm 51

Have mercy on me, O God,
 according to your steadfast love;

According to Your abundant mercy,
 blot out my transgressions.

Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity,
 and cleanse me from my sin.

For I know my transgressions,
 and my sin is ever before me.

Against You, You alone, have I sinned,
 and done what is evil in Your sight,

so that You are justified in your sentence
, and blameless when You pass judgement.

Indeed, I was born guilty,
 a sinner when my mother conceived me.

You desire truth in the inward being;
 therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart.

Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;
 wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

Let me hear joy and gladness;
 let the bones that you have crushed rejoice.

Hide your face from my sins,
 and blot out all my iniquities.

Create in me a clean heart, O God,
 and put a new and right spirit within me.

Do not cast me away from Your presence,
 and do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.

Restore to me the joy of Your salvation,
 and sustain in me a willing spirit.
 
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