• Saturdays - 3:30pm

An 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 practices 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 or helped anyone to have an abortion?
   -Have I physically harmed anyone?
   -Have I abused alcohol or drugs?
   -Did I give scandal to anyone, thereby leading him or her 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 any way, in sins against human life such as artificial insemination or in vitro fertilization?
   -Have I 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 not mine?
   -Have I returned or made restitution for what I have stolen?
   -Do I waste time at work, school, and 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?
   -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 pray at once to banish impure thoughts and temptations?
   -Have I behaved in an inappropriate way with members of the opposite sex: flirting, being superficial, etc.?
    
10. You shall not desire your neighbor's goods.
    -Am I 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?

Act Of Contrition

O my God,
I am heartily sorry for
having offended Thee,
and I detest all my sins,
because I dread the loss of heaven,
and the pains of hell;
but most of all because
they offend Thee, my God,
Who are all good and
deserving of all my love.
I firmly resolve,
with the help of Thy grace,
to confess my sins,
to do penance,
and to amend my life.

Amen