• Have I worked hard, therefore earning who raised me?

guidance, care, and sacrifices of those

• Do I use my time well? Am I lazy? appreciation and gratitude for the
resources that were not mine? • Have I taken the time to express
• Have I stolen any property, time, or remember to pray for them?
• Do I respect those in authority? Do I my speech?
YOU SHALL NOT STEAL or others created in his image with
GUARD YOUR INTEGRITY their memory)? • Have I put down the Church, God,
• Do I respect my parents (or honor
or vulgarities?
HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER sworn or cursed or used profanities
• Do I love others as myself? JUST AUTHORITY • Does my speech glorify God? Have I
RESPECT AND OBEY

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substances? • Have I taken God’s name in vain?
• Have I abused drugs or other
lacked openness to children? DON’T TAKE THE LORD’S NAME IN VAIN
• Have I used contraception? Have I unjust reasons? GLORIFY GOD WITH YOUR SPEECH
• Have I physically harmed anyone for
my spouse?

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instead of as a way to give love to • Am I angry for unjust reasons?
• Have I used sex for personal pleasure being of my spouse and children?
• Am I judgmental or critical of others?
innappropriately? • Do I faithfully guard the spiritual well-

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• Do I look at others lustfully or or resentment?
• Do I struggle with bitterness and financial resources?
sexual fantasies? and given to the poor from my physical or outlook?
• Do I engage in lustful thoughts or the wrongs they’ve done to me? • Have I regularly tithed to the Church • Am I prideful in my attitude, actions,
• Have I refused to forgive others for
or masterbated? • Do I neglect my faith or spiritual growth? or pleasure?
• Have I looked at pornography YOU SHALL NOT KILL
• Have I idolized material things, status,
spiritual disciplines?
IN EVERYONE. • Do I prioritize prayer and other mind, and strength?
• Have I engaged in extramarital sex? HONOR THE IMAGE OF GOD • Do I love God with all my heart, soul,
on chastity? other Holy Day of Obligation?
• Have I followed the Church’s teaching • Have I missed Mass on a Sunday or • Does God have first priorit in my life?
KEEP THE SABBATH HOLY HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME
YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY
LOVE WIH LOYALTY PRIORITIZE GOD WORSHIP GOD ALONE

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commands of those in authority?
to the legitimate requests and
• Have I been disobedient or disrespectful

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• my full paycheck, or have I passively or physically, to someone of
stolen from my employer by not the opposite sex with whom I am not
working in the capacity and spirit of in a relationship?
my agreement?
• Am I jealous of someone else’s marriage
or dating relationship?
EXAMINATION OF
BE TRUTHFUL
CONSCIENCE
YOU SHALL NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS

08 CULTIVATE GRATITUDE
AGAINST YOUR NEIGHBOR
YOU SHALL NOT COVET YOUR

10 WHEN YOU THINK OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, YOU MIGHT

NEIGHBOR’S GOODS
• Do I engage in gossip? IMAGINE A RESTRICTIVE LIST OF “THOU SHALT NOTS”. BUT THIS
• Am I dishonest? Do I tell lies? • Am I jealous, envious, or covetous of IS AN INVERTED PICTURE. SIN IS THE REAL PRISON.
another’s wealth, status, or belongings?
• Do I look down on others?
Each of the Commandments holds the 1. The scope of the Ten Commandments
• Am I ungrateful or discontent? Do I
• Do I own up to my sins and key to freedom in a different area of is broader than most people recognize.
remember to thank God for the many
shortcomings, or do I try to justify your life. They invite us to let God reign. (For example: laziness at work can be
blessings he gives me?
my wrongdoing? This is the key to understanding and considered a form of stealing.)
• Have I committed gluttony with embracing purpose in life. The key to
• Do I keep my word and fulfill
excessive consumption of food or freedom and strength in relationships. 2. It poses questions you may not think
my promises?
alcohol? The key to reducing anxiety and finding to ask, deepening your examination.
true peace. Most Catholics make a formal Use this exercise to explore what you
• Do I overspend on things I don’t need?
examination of conscience right before have done that may not be explicitly
confession, but we should really do this defined in the Ten Commandments.
every evening before bed. This helps to When we look at our day with honesty,
identify habitual sins—areas where you we have the opportunity to reorient
are not living in freedom—and is good our lives towards God and his plan for
HONOR THE SANCTITY practice awakening your conscience in us. Even between confessions.
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OF MARRIAGE everyday life.
YOU SHALL NOT COVET YOUR Use this exercise to explore what you
NEIGHBOR’S WIFE Rather than just asking ourselves where have done that may not be explicitly
we feel our coscience nagging at us, defined in the Ten Commandments.
• Do I fantasize about someone the following exercise uses the Ten When we look at our day with honesty,
else’s spouse? Commandments as a [Link] is useful we have the opportunity to reorient our
for two reasons: lives towards God and his plan for us.
• Am I inappropriately close, emotionally
Even between confessions.