{"id":112,"date":"2016-12-27T23:57:37","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T20:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/app.salmiyachurch.com\/web\/?p=112"},"modified":"2016-12-31T18:43:53","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T15:43:53","slug":"examination-of-conscience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/app.salmiyachurch.com\/web\/2016\/12\/27\/examination-of-conscience\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Examination of Conscience"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before going to Confession you should make a review of mortal and venial sins since your last sacramental confession, and should express sorrow for sins, hatred for sins and a firm resolution not to sin again.<\/p>\n

A helpful pattern for examination of conscience is to review the Commandments of God and the Precepts of the Church:<\/p>\n

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  1. Have God and the pursuit of sanctity in Christ been the goal of my life? Have I denied my faith? Have I placed my trust in false teachings or substitutes for God? Did I despair of God’s mercy?<\/li>\n
  2. Have I avoided the profane use of God’s name in my speech? Have I broken a solemn vow or promise?<\/li>\n
  3. Have I honored every Sunday by avoiding unnecessary work, celebrating the Mass (also holydays)? Was I inattentive at, or unnecessarily late for Mass, or did I leave early? Have I neglected prayer for a long time?<\/li>\n
  4. Have I shown Christlike respect to parents, spouse, and family members, legitimate authorities? Have I been attentive to the religious education and formation of my children?<\/li>\n
  5. Have I cared for the bodily health and safety of myself and all others? Did I abuse drugs or alcohol? Have I supported in any way abortion, “mercy killing,” or suicide?<\/li>\n
  6. Was I impatient, angry, envious, proud, jealous, revengeful, lazy? Have I forgiven others?<\/li>\n
  7. Have I been just in my responsibilities to employer and employees? Have I discriminated against others because of race or other reasons?<\/li>\n
  8. Have I been chaste in thought and word? Have I used sex only within marriage and while open to procreating life? Have I given myself sexual gratification? Did I deliberately look at impure TV, pictures, reading?<\/li>\n
  9. Have I stolen anything from another, from my employer, from government? If so, am I ready to repay it? Did I fulfill my contracts? Did I rashly gamble, depriving my family of necessities?<\/li>\n
  10. Have I spoken ill of any other person? Have I always told the truth? Have I kept secrets and confidences?<\/li>\n
  11. Have I permitted sexual thoughts about someone to whom I am not married?<\/li>\n
  12. Have I desired what belongs to other people? Have I wished ill on another?<\/li>\n
  13. Have I been faithful to sacramental living (Holy Communion and Penance)?<\/li>\n
  14. Have I helped make my parish community stronger and holier? Have I contributed to the support of the Church?<\/li>\n
  15. Have I done penance by abstaining and fasting on obligatory days? Have I fasted before receiving communion?<\/li>\n
  16. Have I been mindful of the poor? Do I accept God’s will for me?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Before going to Confession you should make a review of mortal and venial sins since your last sacramental confession, and should express sorrow for sins, hatred for sins and a firm resolution not to sin again. A helpful pattern for examination of conscience is to review the Commandments of God and the Precepts of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/app.salmiyachurch.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/app.salmiyachurch.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/app.salmiyachurch.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/app.salmiyachurch.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/app.salmiyachurch.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/app.salmiyachurch.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209,"href":"http:\/\/app.salmiyachurch.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/app.salmiyachurch.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/app.salmiyachurch.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/app.salmiyachurch.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}