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Examination of Conscience

1. I am the Lord your God. You shall not have strange gods before me.

I dont give God time every day in prayer?

I dont seek to love God with my whole heart?

Have I been involved with superstitious practices or have I been involved with the occult?

Have I 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?

I dont try to bring peace into my home life?

I dont care about my aged and infirm relatives?

5. You shall not kill.

Have I had an abortion or encouraged or helped anyone to have an abortion?

Have I physically harmed anyone?

Have I abused alcohol or used drugs?

Did I give scandal to anyone, thereby leading him or her into sin?

Have I been lost in anger or resentful?

Have I harbored hatred in my heart?

Have I mutilated myself through any form of sterilization?

Have I engaged, in any way, in sins against humanlife such as artificial insemination or in vitro fertilization?

Have I participated in or approved of euthanasia?

Do I envy the families or possessions of others?

Am I greedy or selfish?

Are material possessions the purpose of my life? 

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?

Have I harbored hatred in my heart?

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?

Do I dress immodestly?

7. You shall not steal.

Have I stolen what is not mine?

Do I waste time at work, school, and home?

Do I gamble excessively, thereby denying my family of their needs?

Have I cheated to get ahead?

I dont keep secret what should be kept confidential?

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?

Have I cheated to get ahead?

Have I injured the reputation of others by slanders?

9. You shall not desire your neighbor´s wife.

Have I consented to impure thoughts?

Have I caused them by impure reading, movies, television, conversation or curiosity?

Do I give in to temptations?

Have I behaved in an inappropriate way with members of the opposite sex?

10. You shall not desire your neighbor´s goods.

Am I jealous of what other people have?

Am I greedy or selfish?

Are material possessions the purpose of my life?

Other sins

Did I deny or doubt God’s existence?

Did I refuse to believe God’s revelation?

Did I believe in horoscopes, fortune telling, dreams, good luck charms or reincarnation?

Did I deny that I was a Catholic?

Did I abandon the Catholic Faith?

Did I despair of or presume on God’s mercy?

Did I neglect prayer for a long time?

Did I fail to pray daily?

Did I blaspheme God or take God’s Name in vain, curse or break an oath or vow?

Did I miss Mass on a Sunday or on a Holy Day of Obligation through my own fault?

 Am I always reverent in the presence of the Most Blessed Sacrament?

Was I inattentive at Mass?

Did I arrive at Mass late?

Did I leave Mass early?

Did I do unnecessary servile work on Sunday?

Did I disobey or disrespect my parents or legitimate superiors?

Did I neglect my duties to my husband, wife, children or parents?

Did I fail to actively take an interest in the religious education and formation of my children?

Have I failed to educate myself concerning the teachings of the Church?

Did I give a full day’s work in return for a full day’s pay?

Did I give scandal by what I said or did, especially to the young?

Was I the cause of anyone abandoning the Catholic Faith?

Did I give a fair wage to my employee(s)?

Was I impatient, angry, envious, unkind, proud, jealous, revengeful, hateful toward others or lazy? 

Did I give bad example, abuse drugs, drink alcohol to excess, fight or quarrel?

Did I physically injure or kill anyone?

Have I had or advised anyone to have an abortion?

Did I participate in or approve of the grave evil known as “mercy killing” or euthanasia?

Did I attempt suicide?

Did I willfully entertain impure thoughts and desires?

Did I dress immodestly?

Did I use impure or suggestive words?

Did I tell impure stories or listen to them?

Did I deliberately look at impure television, internet, plays, pictures or movies?

Did I deliberately read impure material?

Did I perform impure acts by myself (masturbation) or with another (adultery, fornication or sodomy)?

Did I marry or advise another to marry outside of the Church?

Did I abuse my marriage rights?

Was I unfaithful to my marriage vows?

Have I kept company with someone else’s spouse?

Did I practice artificial birth control or was I or my spouse permanently sterilized (tubal ligation or vasectomy)?

Did I steal, cheat, help or encourage others to steal or keep stolen goods?

Have I made restitution for stolen goods?

Did I fulfill my contracts, give or accept bribes, not pay my bills, rashly gamble or speculate or deprive my family of the necessities of life?

Did I tell lies? Deliberately in order to deceive or injure others?

Did I commit perjury?

Did I vote in accordance with a properly informed conscience, in a way consistent with the teachings of the Church, in regard to the sanctity of human life and human life issues?

Was I uncharitable in word or deed?

Did I gossip or reveal the faults and sins of others?

Did I fail to keep secrets that I should have kept?

Did I eat meat on the Fridays during Lent or on Ash Wednesday?

Did I fast as required on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday?

Did I fail to receive Holy Communion during the Easter Season?

Did I fail to confess my sins at least once a year?

Did I go to Holy Communion in the state of mortal sin?

Did I go to Holy Communion without fasting for one hour or more from food and drink (water and medicine are permitted)?

Did I make a bad Confession?

Did I deliberately not tell all the sins I committed during one of my Confessions?

Did I fail to defend the Church?