Confession

Lord, I have sinned in all the branches of sloth; by my negligence, I have been slow in God’s service, slothful and negligent in the faith, and I have taken great care and thought for the ease of my vile body, and I have not remembered the words of the Scriptures, nor followed after them, by recent of my sloth. Again, I have not given thanks to God, as I should, for the spiritual and temporal blessings that he has given and sent me, and furthermore, I have not served God as I ought, according to the blessings and virtues that He has given me. I have neither said nor done those good things which I might have said or done, and have been slow in slothful in your service of Our Lord, and have done and busy myself in the service of the worldly things, and also I have better serve myself and my own flesh and have set more store thereby, than the service of my sweet Creator. I have long been full idle, whence many evils and ill thoughts and meditations come to me. – A Citizen Of Paris, c, 1393 From the Goodman of Paris: A Treatise on Moral and Domestic Economy