Gregorian Chant Hymns

Have mercy, and spare your people, O most merciful Lord: 
For we have sinned against You.

1.   Prostrate, we all weep laying open to You the secret sins we have
      committed, we beg forgiveness from You, O God.
      For we have sinned against You.

2.   Receive the priests’ prayers, and whatever they ask, abundantly
      grant; and have mercy on your people, O Lord.   
      For we have sinned against You.

3.   You have brought your wrath upon us; our sins have grievously
      bent us over, and we languish, with all hope gone. 
      For we have sinned against You.

4.   We have been given over to unimaginable evils, and every evil has
      flooded over us, and we have called out, and heard nothing.
      For we have sinned against you.

5.   We all cry out, we all implore You, penitent, we turn to You with
      tears, to you whose wrath we have ourselves provoked. 
      For we have sinned against You.

6.   Beseeching you, sighing we ask of you; O Jesus Christ, prostrate
      we pray You: may your power come to the aid of us wretches. 
      For we have sinned against You.

7.   Receive the confession of your people, which we pour out before  
      You as we mourn, and in our heart we groan for our sins. 
      For we have sinned against you.

8.   We ask for peace; grant us peace; take away wars, and deliver us
      all: we ask You, O Lord, with humble prayer.  
      For we have sinned against You.

9.   Incline your ear, O God most merciful; now let the stains of our
      sins be washed away and in kindness free us from perils. 
      For we have sinned against You.

Ref.   Have mercy, and spare your people, O most merciful Lord: 
          For we have sinned against You.

Note: The music for the above was typeset by the Society of St. Bede, and is from the Cantus Selecti (Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Solesmes, 1949, page 44) which is in public domain and may purchased at solesmes.com  .