“St John the Baptist, voice that cries out in the desert: 'Straighten the ways of the Lord… do penance, because among you there is one whom you do not know and whose shoelaces I am not worthy to untie”, help me to do penance for my faults so that I become worthy of the forgiveness of the one you announced with these words: “Behold the Lamb of God, behold he who takes away the sin of the world. Saint John, preacher of penance, pray for us. Saint John, forerunner of the Messiah, pray for us. Saint John, joy of the people, pray for us. Amen."