"Contrite" means feeling genuinely sorry or remorseful for something you have done wrong, and being willing to make amends for your actions. Full definition
In the Prayer of Salvation, to be said Out Loud to JESUS CHRIST: «Father, I come with contrite heart as a sinner and repent for my sins and ask for your forgiveness. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
One ought not mechanically to confess a catalogue of sins, for there is no more of contrition in the saying of contrite words than in the reading of any other catalogue. (religion-online.org)
People were in a humble and contrite spirit as the result of a financial depression in 1907. (religion-online.org)