An Examination of Conscience

Everything is summed up in the two great commandments:

LOVE GOD.

LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOUR (AS YOURSELF).

Some like to use the ten commandments as aids. These suggestions are perhaps different.

All sin begins with SELFISHNESS...

God

• Do I choose myself before God?
• Do I neglect prayer time?
• Do I neglect Mass?
• Do I seek his will?
• Do I spread his word?
• Do I show his love and care in my life and actions'?
• Do I deny him, doubt him, and blaspheme against him?
• Do I live like Christ in poverty, accept rejection?
• Do I fast and do penance?
• Do I love him?

Neighbour

• Do I know my neighbour ... or want to know him?
• Do I seek out the poor and help them?
• Am I concerned about the Third World, starvation?
• Do I visit the sick, those in prison?
• Do I take part in groups or parish activities?
• Am I concerned about local or national politics, laws on abortion or euthanasia, racial discrimination, housing, and so on?
• Do I help young people in clubs, groups, etc.?
• Do I help the old and lonely?
• Do I respect my neighbour - property, good name?
• Do I love my neighbour properly - affection, love, sex?

Myself

• Do I give God enough of myself?
• Do I give time to think out where I am going?
• Do I try to learn more about God by reading, groups, listening to talks, discussions?
• Do I discipline myself in my sexual habits, in eating and drinking, smoking, all self-indulgence?
• Do I listen? (actively not passively)
• Do I give in to pride lying, anger, and so on?

These thoughts are just to stir you. Sit openly and think/pray your life through, your relationship with God, with nature, with man. Admit your failings before God - and increase your spiritual strength in an uncertain world.

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