EXAMINATION OF CONSCIENCE
1. I am the LORD your God. You shall not have strange gods before me.
-Do I give God time every day in prayer?
-Do I seek to love Him with my whole heart?
-Have I been involved. with superstitious practice or have I been involved with the occult?
-Do I seek to surrender myself to God's word as taught by the Church? '
-Have I ever received communion in the state of mortal sin?
-Have I ever deliberately told a lie in Confession or have I withheld a mortal sin from the priest in
Confession?
-Are there other "gods"' in my life? Money, security, power, people, etc.?
2. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.
-Have I used God's name in vain; lightly or carelessly?
-Have I been angry with God?
-Have I wished evil upon any other person?
-Have I insulted a sacred person or abused a sacred object?
3. Remember to keep holy the Lord's Day.
-Have I deliberately missed Mass on Sundays or Holy Days of Obligation?
-Have I tried to observe Sunday as a family day and a day of rest?
-Do I do needless work on Sunday?
4. Honor your father and your mother.
-Do I honor and obey my parents?
-Have I neglected my duties to my spouse and children?
-Have I given my family good religious example?
-Do I try to bring peace into my home life?
-Do I care for my aged and infirm relatives?
5. You shall not kill.
-Have I had an abortion or encouraged anyone to have an abortion?
-Have I physically harmed anyone?
-Have I abused alcohol or drugs?
-Did I give scandal to anyone, thereby leading them into sin?
-Have I been angry or resentful?
-Have I harbored hatred in my heart?
-Have I mutilated myself through any form of sterilization?
-Have I encouraged or condoned sterilization?
-Have I engaged in sins against human life such as artificial insemination or in-vitro fertilization?
-Have participated in or approved of euthanasia?
6. You shall not commit adultery.
-Have I been faithful to my marriage vows in thought and action?
-Have I engaged in any sexual activity outside of marriage?
-Have I used any method of contraception or artificial birth control in my marriage?
-Has each sexual act in my marriage been open to the transmission of new life?
-Have i been guilty of masturbation?
-Do I seek to control my thoughts and imaginations?
-Have I respected all members of the opposite sex, or have I thought of other people as mere objects?
-Have I been guilty of any homosexual activity?
-Do I seek to be chaste in my thoughts, words, actions?
-Am I careful to dress modestly?
7. You shall not steal,
-Have I stolen what is riot mine?
-Have I returned or made restitution for what I have stolen?
-Do I waste time at work, school!, home?
-Do I gamble excessively,thereby denying my family of their needs?
-Do I pay my debts promptly?
-Do I seek to share what I have with the poor?
-Have I cheated anyone out of what is Justly theirs, for example, creditors, insurance companies, big
corporations?
8. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
-Have I lied? Have i gossiped?.
-Do I speak badly of others behind their back?
-Am I sincere in my dealings with others?
-Am I critical, negative, or uncharitable in my thoughts of others?
-Do I keep secret what should be kept confidential:?
9. You shall not desire your neighbor's wife.
-Have I consented to impure thoughts?
-Have I caused them by impure reading, movies, conversation or curiosity?
-Do I pray at once to banish impure thoughts and temptations?
10. You shall not desire your neighbor's goods.
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-Am iI jealous of what other people have?
-Do I envy the families or possessions of others?
-Am I greedy or selfish?
-Are material possessions the purpose of my life?