CONCIENCE EXAM FOR ADULTS
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(Transcribed from a video in YouTube, my comments into [ ] )
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So let's begin. I am going to start first with this book of 1939, it is a complete Missal by B. Molina. Then I'm going to read but since this is a video that seeks to give the greatest glory to God, I'm going to start with a prayer. [Prayers in latin]
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In nomine Patris,
et Filii,
et Spiritus Sancti.
Amen.
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Ave María,
gratia plena,
Dominus tecum,
benedicta tu in muliéribus,
et benedictus fructus ventris tui Iesus.
Sancta Maria,Mater Dei,
ora pro nobis peccatoribus,
nunc et in ora mortis nostrae.
Amen.
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Cor Iesu Sacratissimum, miserere nobis.
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Cor María Immacolata, ora pro nobis.
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Sancte Ioseph, ora pro nobis
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In nomine Patris,
et Filii,
et Spiritus Sancti.
Amen.
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Well, it says:
This Sacrament was instituted by Jesus Christ, when addressing His apostles He said to them: " Receive ye the Holy Ghost. Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them; and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained". With it, sins committed after Baptism are forgiven. To receive this Sacrament it is necessary to confess the sins with sincere sorrow and repentance of having committed them to a priest who has the faculty to absolve. It is also necessary to have the firm intention to correct oneself and to fulfill the penance imposed by the confessor. All mortal sins must be confessed, clarifying, as best as one can remember, the number and species of the same. To achieve this, you must humbly ask God for grace, with the desire to know the sins committed and to examine yourself by going through the Commandments of the Law of God, the Commandments of the Holy Church, the capital sins and the particular obligations. Sacramental confession includes the following points:
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1- EXAMINATION OF SINS
2- SORROW FOR HAVING COMMITTED THEM
3- PURPOSE OF AMENDMENT
4- CONFESSION OF ALL
5- FULFILLMENT OF THE PENANCE IMPOSED BY THE CONFESSOR.
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This is a prayer before the examination:
Holy Spirit, Comforter and Source of all light, enlighten my understanding and quicken my memory with Thy grace, that I may remember all my sins and know the gravity and malice as I shall know them when I see myself before the Divine Majesty when I am judged. Make me, O Lord, to abhor them, detest them, and weep with bitterness and pain to cast them from my soul by a sincere and painful confession. I ask this, O my God, through the merits of my Lord Jesus Christ, through the powerful intercession of the Blessed Virgin and that of all the Angels and Saints. Amen
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* O Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Thy faithful and kindle in them the fire of Thy love. "Send forth Thy Spirit and they shall be created and Thou shalt renew the face of the earth." Amen.
[* She reads "Come" but we cannot invoke the Holy Spirit directly upon us, we must ask for Him to the Heavenly Father, so I omit that word. Read the Messages of Our Lady of the Roses www.tldm.org]
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Let us pray: O God who enlightened the hearts of the faithful with the enlightenment of the Holy Spirit, grant us to know what is right according to the same Holy Spirit and always enjoy His consolation. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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EXAMINATION OF CONSCIENCE.
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"It is to be remembered how long it has been since the last confession and whether all mortal sins were confessed in it or whether any were omitted through shame, malice or fear. If this had occurred the confession or confessions that were sacrilegious shall be repeated by telling everything to the confessor."
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I recommend to you personally, then, to make a note of it. It is recommendable also for the laity because this is for religious life, the Liturgy of the Hours. So when you pray the Liturgy of the Hours, the Compline, which is the last one, you make a daily examination of conscience and it is something that is very useful because in this way you can write down the sins you have committed so that in a week, or two weeks, or three weeks or whenever it is necessary... that the Holy Father Pio of Pieltrecina recommends confession once a week. So it is of great necessity. It helps a lot, I tell you that venial sins, I confess them, and I have received a lot of very good advice that... and besides, any little stain you are removing, cleaning, better said: God is the one who cleans it. So we start with this.
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FIRST COMMANDMENT - To love God above all things.
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One may have sinned by not knowing what is necessary to be saved. By consenting to temptations against the faith or doubts about the dogmas of the Church. By having or reading forbidden books. By believing in superstitions. For having distrusted God. For having omitted for a long time the practices of piety. For having been ashamed to confess God before men, allowing themselves to be carried away by human respect.
Now I am going to read another examination of conscience on the first Commandment: Have I denied God? Have I questioned or denied the Catholic faith or what it teaches: the truths taught by the Church in matters of faith and morals? Am I ashamed of my religion before those who mock it? Do I let myself be carried away by the advice and ideas of immoral people, without religion? Have I abused the Mercy of God? Have I failed to fulfill the promises or vows made to God? Have I been indifferent in the things of God? Have I committed sacrilege? Have I been superstitious, believing in false miracles, attending false cults, [Here she includes some pagan things of these days] for example: Evangelicals, Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, etc., Or using amulets, red ribbons, horseshoes, Turkish eyes, etc.? Have I given worship to characters that the Church does not recognize as saints, for example: the dead Correa, Gauchito Gil, the (not) holy death? here also enter pagan gods such as Buddha, all those... Have I resorted to various modes of divination, magic or witchcraft? Have I abandoned prayer? Because of Ingratitude, spiritual laziness? Have I hated the Catholic Church? Have I tempted God, e.g., by exposing myself to danger of soul, life or health without serious cause? Failing to behave with reverence when in Church, e.g. Failure to genuflect to the Blessed Sacrament upon entering or leaving Church, etc. Excessive attraction to things or creatures, e.g., excessive affection for animals, fanatical for sports or movie stars, music, television idols, love of money, pleasure or power. Idolatry: worshipping false gods such as giving honor to a creature instead of God, e.g. Satan, science, ancestors, country... Superstition: attributing powers to a created thing that it does not have. Hypnotism without sufficient cause. Divination, communication with Satan, the dead, demons or other false practices to discover the unknown. Consulting horoscopes, astrology...palm reading, divination, attributing undue importance to dreams, omens, all practices of magic or sorcery e.g. witchcraft, voodoo, using amulets, playing with Ouija boards or turn tables. Spiritism, talking to spirits. Sacrilege: profaning or treating unworthily the Sacraments, especially the Holy Eucharist and other liturgical actions, as well as religious persons or blessed things such as sacred vessels or statues, or places consecrated to God. Sacrilege in receiving a Sacrament, especially receiving the Holy Eucharist in mortal sin. Simony: buying or selling blessed objects. Profane or superstitious use of blessed objects, sometimes done to remain in sin. Practical materialism: one believes that one needs and desires only material things. Atheistic humanism: falsely believes that man is an end in himself and the sole creator with supreme control over his own history. Atheism in general rejects, denies or doubts the existence of God, either in theory or in practice, that is: ignoring Him in everyday life. Gnosticism: postulates the existence of a transcendent being who is incapable of revealing himself and about whom nothing can be said or makes no judgment about the existence of God which it declares to be impossible to prove or even affirm or deny.
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As we have read in the 3 examinations of conscience that I have just dictated to you about the first Commandment: You shall love God above all things, then to love God above all things is to put Him in the first place above everything. This Commandment is very important because being the first is the most, most, most important because God is the one to whom we owe everything first. The old missal says about the first Commandment:
There are sins on the first Commandment, there are sins on faith which is by voluntary doubts, curiosities, dreams, superstitions, forbidden readings, mockery in sacred matters, negligence in instructing oneself well of one's religion.
On hope: by distrust in the mercy of God, presumption of His goodness in one's own strength, lack of submission, voluntary faintness of spirit, disgust, despair.
On charity: by murmurings against divine providence, willful resistance to inspirations, negligence in preventing evil when one should and can, sin for human respects, dividing one's heart between God and something else that one should not love or failing to love for God alone, not loving one's neighbor for the solely love of God.
On religion: omitting his obligations of piety, his prayers, the Mass, his penance or by doing all this badly. Committing irreverence in the Church, immodest postures, conversations, voluntary divisions, violating by work the Holy Sundays or other feasts, buying or selling on these days, by games, illicit amusements and companies that turn away from the service of God. By swearing false oaths, lying, taking the Name of God in vain, swearing lightly, practicing simony in claiming or placing a benefit, failing to praise God, failing to give Him thanks for His benefits and to submit to His Holy Will.
Sins against the faith:
Willful doubt of any article of Faith, willful ignorance of the truths of the faith which ought to be known, neglect to instruct oneself in the faith in accordance with the state of life. Apostasy, heresy, indifferentism, believing that one religion is as good as the other and believing that all religions are equally good and pleasing to God, or that one is free to accept or reject any or all religions. Reading or circulating books or writings against Catholic belief or practice in a way that endangers one's faith or another. Remaining silent when asked about one's faith. Attending schismatic or heretical worship. Joining Masonic groups or other forbidden societies.
Sins against hope:
Despairing of God's mercy. Giving up all hope of salvation or the means necessary to be saved, or lack of confidence in the power of His grace to help us in trouble or temptation. No desire to possess eternal happiness in Heaven or after this earthly life. Presumption: expecting salvation without God's help or assuming God's forgiveness without conversion, or expecting to obtain heavenly glory without merit by presuming on God's mercy or on the efficacy of certain pious practices to continue in sin, rejecting any dependence on God.
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Sins against charity:
Failure to perform an act of charity at intervals during life, especially in times of need. Selfishness: one cares only for oneself, praises oneself, is selfish, enjoys receiving praise. Intentionally rebellious thoughts against God, boasting of sin, violating God's law or omitting good works out of human respect.
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SECOND COMMANDMENT: THOU SHALT NOT TAKE THE NAME OF GOD IN VAIN
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Have I spoken offensive words or mockery against God, the Virgin Mary, the Saints, the Pope, priests, nuns or sacred things? Have I sworn falsely or unnecessarily, or untruthfully in the Name of God? One can sin for having used frivolously, that is to say without reason, and without respect the Name of God and the Saints. For having sworn false or useless oaths, for having blasphemed, for not having fulfilled the vows.
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Dishonoring God by profane or disrespectful use of the Holy Name of God or the Holy Name of Jesus Christ, the Names of the Blessed Virgin Mary or the Saints. Blasphemy: speech or gestures that despise or express insults to God or [to His Son] Jesus Christ, the Catholic Church, the Blessed Virgin Mary or the Saints. Perjury: to promise something under oath without the intention of fulfilling it or to break a promise made under oath. Taking false or unnecessary oaths to ask God to witness a lie, breaking vows or promises to God. Speaking during Mass and in a Church without sufficient reason or to distract others.
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THIRD COMMANDMENT: TO KEEP HOLY THE FEASTS
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REMEMBER TO KEEP THE HOLY DAY OF THE LORD.
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Sins against the Third Commandment: omission of prayer and divine worship, all servile and unnecessary work on Sundays and holy days of obligation and all that hinders the sanctification of the Lord's Holy Day. Engaging in unnecessary commercial activities, i.e.: buying and selling on Sundays and holy days of obligation.
Did I miss Mass on Sundays or holy days of obligation when I was able to attend? Did I participate in Mass unintentionally, by talking or distracting others, or did I arrive too late? Did I work unnecessarily on Sundays? Did I fast and abstain on the days indicated by the Church, Ash Wednesday, Good Friday? Did I confess and receive Holy Communion at least once a year during Easter time?
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One can sin for having missed Mass without a justified reason on a Holy Day of Obligation. For having arrived late. For having attended without respect. For having worked or made others work unnecessarily on days when work was forbidden.
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FOURTH COMMANDMENT: HONOR FATHER AND MOTHER
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One can sin for having disrespected them, for having disobeyed them, for having displeased them, for not having helped them and for not having loved them. Have I failed to obey my parents, superiors or teachers? Have I answered them badly? Have I made them angry or have I caused them displeasure? Have I taken care of the material and spiritual needs of my parents? Have I had a good relationship with my siblings? Have I been unfair with my children, employees or subordinates? Have I been respectful and fair with my wife or husband? Have I fulfilled my duties to my country?
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Sins contrary to the Fourth Commandment:
For parents: hating their children. Cursing them, giving them scandal (cursing or drinking, etc.) Allowing them to grow in ignorance, idleness or sin. Showing habitual partiality without cause. Postponing the baptism of a child, neglecting to watch over their bodily health, their religious instruction, the company they keep, the books they read, etc. Not correcting them when necessary. Being harsh or cruel in correction. Sending children to Protestant and other dangerous schools. Not encouraging them to attend Holy Mass on Sundays and holy days and to practice frequent reception of the Sacraments.
For children: any kind of anger or hatred against parents and other legitimate superiors, provoking them to anger, afflicting them, insulting them, neglecting them in their needs. Contempt or disobedience of their lawful commandments.
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Husbands and wives: misuse, i.e., using them without regard for their own welfare and without regard for charity, putting obstacles in the way of the fulfillment of religious duties. Lack of gentleness and consideration with regard to each other's faults. Unreasonable jealousy. Negligence in domestic duties. Bad temper, injurious words. Neglecting to attempt to secure the means of supporting the family because of laziness or timidity.
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For employers: not allowing employees reasonable time to perform religious duties and instruction. Setting them a bad example or allowing others to do so. Withholding their lawful wages. Failing to care for them in sickness. Dismissing them arbitrarily and without cause. Imposing unreasonable policies.
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For employees: disrespecting employers. Failure to obey in matters in which one has obligated oneself to obey, e.g., in fulfilling a contract, loss of time, abandonment of work. Waste of employer's property through dishonesty. Carelessness or negligence. Violating company policy without sufficient cause.
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For professionals and public officials: Lack of knowledge about the duties of office and profession, negligence in the exercise of those duties. Injustice or partiality, exorbitant fees (this sin may also be included in the seventh Commandment).
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For teachers: Neglecting the progress of those entrusted to their care. Unjust, indiscreet or excessive punishment. Partiality, bad example. Loose or false maxims, i.e. teaching them things that are not true like true.
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Students: Disrespect, disobedience, stubbornness, idleness, waste of time, yielding to inactive distractions, e.g., parties and undue recreation.
For all: contempt for the laws of the state and country, as well as the Church. Disobedience to lawful authority, disregard of civil laws. [31:52]
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FIFTH COMMANDMENT: THOU SHALT NOT KILL
Sins against the fifth commandment include: murder, performing an abortion, having an abortion, assisting someone to have an abortion. The penitent should know that having, causing or assisting in an abortion causes one to be excommunicated. Euthanasia: the withholding of ordinary means from a dying or terminally ill patient. Suicide, suicide attempts, serious thoughts about committing suicide. Strife, quarrels, anger, hatred, desire for revenge. Human torture, gluttony, excessive eating or drinking. Drunkenness, abuse of alcohol, medication or drugs. Endangering the lives of others, for example: drinking liquor and driving, driving too fast, etc. Risking your own life or limbs without sufficient reason, e.g. reckless stunts, Russian roulette, etc. Carelessness of leaving poison in a misplaced place or giving poison to another. Dangerous drugs, weapons, drugging another person or putting pills in food or water knowing it will be harmful to the person, etc.
Mutilation of the body, such as castration, vasectomy, tubal ligation, hysterectomy without sufficient medical cause. Immoral scientific research and its implications: bad example or scandal. Disrespect for the dying or the dead. Failure to avoid war. Showing dislike or contempt for others. Refusing to talk to people when they need to be addressed. Ignoring offers of reconciliation especially between relatives. Cherishing an unforgiving spirit. Annoying humor and ridiculing. Insults, irritating words and actions. Sadness for the welfare of another. Rejoicing at the misfortune of another. Envy of attention shown to others. Tyrannical behavior. Feeling contempt, suspicion or resentment against another because he speaks the truth. This applies to people who hate their priests for their preaching. Those who hate and dislike some parishioners for their expression of faith. Inducing others to sin by words or example.
Damage to health by overindulgence. Giving drink to others knowing they will abuse it. Taking birth control pills that may or may not be abortifacient. Use of prophylactic or barrier methods to prevent pregnancy. Using lawful means to prevent conception while encouraging a contraceptive mentality. Direct sterilization causing unnecessary suffering or death to animals.
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Have I used or wished physical harm on another person? Have I advised, assisted or performed an abortion? Do I use abortifacients such as IUDs? Have I neglected my health or risked my life unnecessarily? Have I been drunk or used drugs? Do I cherish hatred or resentment toward anyone? Have I nurtured desires for revenge? Have I caused others to sin by setting bad examples or wearing indecent or provocative clothing? Have I scandalized by my conduct? [Do I bear hatred or resentment toward anyone? Remember that Our Lord told us that if we do not forgive the offenses of men, our Heavenly Father will not forgive us ours either. Have I turned away from good and religious practices?]
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Sins against the sixth commandment are: impurity and immodesty in words or looks and actions either alone or with others. Telling and listening to dirty jokes, wearing immodest clothing. Buying, renting or watching indecent movies, television or books, pornography or books containing impurity. Masturbation, fornication, sometimes called premarital sex. Oral sex, anal sex. Prostitution, sodomy, homosexual practices, adultery, divorce, polygamy, incest, sexual abuse, rape, prolonged and sensual kissing. Caresses or previous plays outside the context of marriage, and within the context of marriage not ordered to the consummation of the natural conjugal act, or not duly performed according to the natural law. Immodest dancing. Going out without taking the necessary precautions to safeguard one's purity or faith [there are prayers for before leaving home].
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SEVENTH COMMANDMENT: THOU SHALT NOT STEAL.
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Sins against the seventh commandment are: stealing, for example, taking small things from one's place of work to which one is not allowed or taking money from a family member without his permission. Cheating. Plagiarizing. Inflicting copyright rules, e.g. photocopying without permission. Keeping borrowed or lost items without making a reasonable attempt to restore the other's property. Possession of ill-gotten goods. Advising or directing someone to harm another person or their property. Negligent or malicious injury to the property of others. Concealment of fraud, theft or damage when on duty obligated to provide the information. Tax evasion by failing to pay taxes only. Business fraud. Dishonesty in politics, business, etc.
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Failure to pay debts at the scheduled time and not making reasonable efforts and sacrifices in this matter, e.g.: gradually putting down the required amount. Failing to repair or compensate someone who suffers unjust damages. Forcing prices or taking advantage of the ignorance or trouble of others. Usury: lending money at high interest rates to someone in financial difficulty. Speculation in which one manages to artificially manipulate the price of goods to gain an advantage to the detriment of others.
Corruption in which one influences the judgment of those who must decide on legal matters. Accepting bribes. Appropriation and use for private purposes of the common assets of a company. Badly done work. Paying unfair wages or defrauding an employee of due benefits. Forgery of checks and invoices. Writing checks knowing that there are insufficient funds to cover them. Excessive spending and waste. Failing to fulfill promises or contractual agreements if the commitments were morally just. Game of chance and gambling if it deprives someone of the basic necessities of life for themselves or others. Excessive and unnecessary waste of goods, resources, money or funds and even food itself. [min 40:55]
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Have I stolen or collaborated in theft? Have I returned what was stolen? Have I damaged the property or work of another? Have I repaired the damage caused? Have I obtained money by illicit means? Have I paid debts owed? Have I fulfilled my work? Have I squandered money in gambling, e.g., at the casino, lottery or betting game? Have I lusted with envy for the goods of others? Have I contributed to the support of the Church in my parish?
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THE EIGHTH COMMANDMENT: THOU SHALT NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS AGAINST THY NEIGHBOR
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Sins contrary to the eighth commandment are: boasting, boastfulness, flattery, hypocrisy, exaggeration, irony, sarcasm, unjust injury to another person's good name (whether revealing true or hidden faults, detraction, or telling false faults). Slander. Rumors of others or spreading them [remember that we cannot speak evil of others if we have no proof]. Criticizing others, listening with pleasure to others being criticized. Gossiping. Unjustly dishonoring another person in their presence. Reckless judgment: firmly believing without sufficient reason that someone has some moral defect. Revealing secrets. Publishing discreditable secrets about others, even if they are true. Refusing or delaying to restore one's good name that one has blackened. Unfounded accusations. Unfounded suspicions.
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Have I lied even to do good or to avoid evil? Have I maliciously attributed faults and defects to others that they do not have? Have I repaired this harm? Have I judged or suspected someone without just foundation? Have I commented on sins or faults of others without necessity or with bad intention? Have I repaired this harm?
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One can sin and lie by judging rashly, by speaking evil of his neighbor, by slandering him, by bearing false witness, and by not keeping his secrets.
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THE NINTH COMMANDMENT: THOU SHALT NOT COVET THY NEIGHBOR'S WIFE.
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The ninth commandment forbids the following: all those impure thoughts and desires that we deliberately indulge or willingly accept whenever these impure thoughts or passions come to our mind. The penitent should keep in mind that any sin listed in the sixth commandment in which someone desires, or deliberately receives the desire, can have the same degree of gravity, i.e.: mortal sin.
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TENTH COMMANDMENT: Thou shalt not covet the goods of others.
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The tenth commandment forbids the following: Envy, desire for the goods of others, jealousy, a jealous vigilance to keep a good enjoyed by oneself from others. Covetousness and the desire to have material goods without limit. Avarice. The desire to become rich at all costs. Enterprises or professions that expect unfavorable circumstances for others so that they can personally benefit from them. Envious of the success, talents, temporal or spiritual goods of another person. The desire to commit injustice by harming someone in order to obtain his temporal goods.
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THE PRECEPTS OF THE HOLY MOTHER CHURCH
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In addition to the 10 Commandments of God, the faithful are obliged to follow the Precepts of the Church. The power to make these laws comes from Jesus Christ and includes all that is necessary for the government of the Church and for the direction of the faithful so that they may attain their eternal salvation.
FIRST PRECEPT: To attend Holy Mass on all Sundays and holy days. There are 7 holy days of obligation:
1. Christmas: December 25;
2. The Circumcision, Maternity of Mary: January 1;
3. The Ascension: Thursday 40 days after Easter;
4. The Assumption: August 15;
5. All Saints Day: November 1;
6. The Immaculate Conception: December 8;
7. Easter.
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The Church obliges us to abstain from servile work on holy days of obligation as well as on Sundays to the extent possible. Catholics who are required to work on holy days are obliged to attend Holy Mass unless excused for a reasonable grave cause. One may violate this precept by not attending Mass on the prescribed days or by arriving late for Mass without sufficient reason. In this case if you have a job that prevents you from attending, you have to ask for a dispensation from a priest or consult with the priest near you or where you go to Holy Mass so that he will give you a dispensation, if you do not have a dispensation it is a mortal sin.
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SECOND PRECEPT: Fasting, abstaining and doing penance on prescribed days.
The law of abstinence obligates those who have reached 14 years of age. The law of fasting binds those who have attained the age of majority until the beginning of 60 years. Fasting means eating less food than one normally eats. On fast days we are only allowed one full meal and two smaller meals that together are less than a full meal. Fast days are Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. On days of abstinence we are forbidden to eat meat. The days of abstinence are every Friday of the year. In the United States a form of penance, also in Mexico, or prayer may be done in place of abstinence on Fridays of the year outside of Lent and this was substituted for people who live in poverty and have no choice but to eat meat on Fridays, but if you do not have just cause you must abstain from meat on Fridays.
Substituted penance allowed can be: Praying a Rosary, the Stations of the Cross, visiting the sick or imprisoned, etc.
THIRD PRECEPT: Confess our mortal sins at least once a year.
The Church urges us to go frequently to the great Sacrament of Confession. But it only commands us to go at least once a year to warn people who may presume on the Mercy of God, that it is a sin against the Holy Spirit. Parents should prepare their children for confession when the children learn to distinguish good from evil, that is at about 7 years of age.
The obligation to confess once a year is binding only on those who have committed a mortal sin and have not confessed for at least one year.
One can sin by not confessing at least once a year, by not confessing in danger of death, and by sacrilegious confession.
FOURTH PRECEPT: Receiving Holy Communion during the Easter Season
The Easter season begins on the first Sunday of Lent and ends on Trinity Sunday. After receiving our First Holy Communion it is strongly recommended that we receive this great sacrament frequently throughout our lives. Every day if possible, as recommended by Pope St. Pius X.
One can sin by not having received communion properly at least once a year, by receiving communion in mortal sin, by not keeping the prescribed fasts, being able and not being exempt, and by eating meat on the prescribed days. For using the privileges of the Bull without having it, being able to acquire it.
FIFTH PRECEPT: Contribute to the support of the Church or: pay tithes and first fruits.
One can sin by not paying for worship what is customary for good Christians of the population or country where one lives. This precept requires that each one attends to the material needs of the Church according to his means.
[FIFTH PRECEPT: Not to contract marriage contrary to the laws of the Church. THIS PRECEPTION IS ACCORDING TO HOLY TRADITION, but Modern Catechism eliminated it and the Third one they unfolded it in two, before it was only one: to confess and to take communion once a year for Easter.
<<Of course, that it is not [now] a precept of the Church, does not imply that Catholics are free to marry as they wish, since we are still obliged to do so according to the Catholic rite, as ordered by canons 1108 and following of the Code of Canon Law, a norm that only considers valid marriages contracted before a bishop, priest or deacon [NOOOO! Deacons cannot administer the Sacraments, except baptism and bring communion if the persons were in danger of death and could not be assisted by a priest], and at least two witnesses>>.]
1. FAULTS AGAINST GOD: omissions, carelessness in the practices of piety. Disrespect in church, willful distractions at Mass and during the Holy Rosary. Words of complaint, lukewarmness and lack of devotion [51:57] in the service of God.
2. FAULTS AGAINST THE NEIGHBOR: lack of respect, obedience and docility, lack of charity, rash judgments, hatred and revenge, murmuring, slander, bad examples, scandals, incitement to evil, antipathy, resentment and enmity, quarrels, quarrels, and damage caused to their property.
3. AGAINST ONESELF: pride, vanity, human respect, obscene songs, thoughts, desires, conversations, dress and fashions contrary to chastity. Theaters, dances, cinemas, novels. Immoral cards and prints. Sinful friendships, gluttony, impatience, laziness in the fulfillment of obligations and waste of time.
DEADLY SINS:
Sins of pride: acting out of pride, overspending, despising others, indulging in thoughts of vanity, being susceptible....
Sins of avarice: inordinate fondness for riches, not giving alms when we can and when we must
Sins of lust: as in the sixth and ninth Commandments of the Law of God.
Sins of envy: [53.19] to have sought to do evil to one's neighbor out of envy, to rejoice in the evil of others and to be saddened by the good of others.
Sins of gluttony: to overindulge in eating and drinking.
Sins of anger: as in the fifth commandment of the law of God.
Sins of laziness: in getting up, in work and in the practices of piety.
In addition to what is said in the fourth commandment of the Law of God, the following may be kept in mind:
Parents, faults they may have: neglecting the religious instruction of their children. Not punishing them or punishing them with outbursts or with disproportionate punishments. Not teaching them an honest way of living for later according to their position. To give them too much freedom. Not to forbid them company that does not suit them. To take away their freedom unjustly as regards the choice of status. Not to watch them about the spectacles they frequent and to give them bad examples.
Spouses, faults they may have: Unfaithfulness in affection and honesty. Mistreatment in word and in other ways. Long-lasting resentment. Misuse of the marriage. Talking to the children against the other spouse, discrediting him/her. The wife can be at fault for disobedience and mismanagement of the house. The husband can be at fault for giving too little of what is necessary for family life or for not providing it.
For the bosses, faults that they can have: to treat the workers badly with severity and without Christian charity. Not giving them what is just, neglecting religious practices. To demand too much work from them. To give them excessive freedom foreseeing that they will misuse it. Divulging their faults and allowing their children to insult them or treat them with contempt.
Employees, faults they may have: neglecting their own duties. Being complicit in cooperating in wrongdoing within the family. Carrying or bringing letters or orders for the sons or daughters against the just will of the parents, disposing of things without the consent of the latter and revealing the disagreements and displeasures of the family.
Teachers, professors, lawyers, judges, employers, governors and workers can see if they fulfill their duties if they fail in their activities against charity, honesty and justice.
PAIN OF SINS
Prayer:
O my Lord and my God! Holy God, just God who abhors all sin, I, a sinner, ashamed of the stains of my crimes, humbly come before You to ask Your forgiveness for my faults and that through confession You deign to wash them away with the Blood of Your Son, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever. Amen.
O my Lord and my God, just Judge of the iniquities and conduct of men, who punish in this life or in the hereafter every sin. I, a sinner, who have deserved hell and punishment for my faults, humbly present myself to your divine Mercy to ask you to give me absolution for my sins, and to forgive me for the torments, passion and death offered for me by Your most holy Son who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit forever and ever. Amen.
PURPOSE
To resolve to make amends for the sins committed and to correct one's faults by employing the necessary means. To confess one's sins, making sure that the confession is integral, humble, sincere and discreet.
Before approaching the confessor, say the Act of Contrition carefully and begin the confession by saying: Bless me Father because I have sinned... I confessed (so long ago)....
PENANCE
To do penance administered by the confessor as soon as possible, thus avoiding forgetting it.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE EXAMINATION OF CONSCIENCE.
You may write down so that you will not forget anything and will not be ashamed of anything, please, and the sin you are most ashamed of is the one you should confess first
1 When the confessor opens the window make the sign of the Cross and say: Bless me Father, I confess to Almighty God and to you, Father, that I have sinned.
2 Say when you made your last confession without being questioned.
3 Say if possible the number of mortal sins, as for venial sins it is voluntary to say the number.
4 Distinguish between temptation and sin, between mortal and venial sins, particularly referring to sins of impure thoughts, imaginations and desires. They become sins only when they are deliberately admitted, although conscience warned us of the danger and of the obligation to reject them. Temptations can be explained by saying: I had impure thoughts, but I did my best to reject them.
5 At the end, if only venial sins have been confessed, one can include some of the past life sins already confessed by repenting them. This is done so that there is enough sorrow for the reception of the Sacrament. Thus: I repent of these and all the sins of my past life especially those committed against the commandment... or against the virtue of....
6 If any help is needed, simply say to the priest: Can you give me some practical advice about such a virtue or how to avoid this sin?
7 When the last sin has been said one says immediately: For these and all my sins I am repentant.
8 Although they are not part of these rules, it is well to remember the following admonitions: Say or fulfill the penance as soon as possible unless you have forgotten. However, it is not necessary to do it before Communion (i.e., you may receive Communion and then do the penance imposed on you).
From another booklet that does not have the sins separated by the Commandments:
Sins against oneself: by pride, by pride, by avarice, by envy, by impurity, that is by dishonest and willful thoughts by negligently dwelling on them and taking pleasure in them whether one desires to do the evil one thinks, or since one has no desire since one maintains towards it a simple complacency. It is necessary to say whether such thoughts have caused some disordered movements.
The words: saying or hearing with pleasure lewd or double meaning words. Singing dissolute verses or giving ear to them. Holding free and familiar conversations especially, with different sex or permitting them in those who are to be reproved.
Gazing: Considering out of curiosity or sensibility bad objects such as obscene paintings. Reading indecent books. Taking or leading others to criminal or dangerous gatherings. Exposing oneself to occasions of sin or giving them to others such as lending bad books, wearing immodest and untight clothing.
In actions: having or allowing on oneself or on others, sensual liberties, lewd kisses. Secret and infamous touching.
Customs: Impure sin: between married people: everything that is not allowed between them. It is necessary to explain everything as modestly as possible, to state the circumstances that change or increase the sin and to say whether or not they have used the means to get rid of such a criminal and dishonest passion. Determine well what is voluntary and involuntary, what is by pure negligence or by pleasure and complacency in this matter. The time of sins, how long the custom has lasted. Occasions that have been given. With whom one has sinned or desired to sin, without naming persons.
By gluttony: eating or drinking to excess. To quote others by frequenting taverns instead of attending to their duties. Seeking with what to satisfy their appetites, eating without rule and with sensuality. Missing fasts or abstinences.
By anger: being carried away by spite and rashness without restraint. Saying insulting words and curses. Wishing evil to others. Giving them occasion to become angry by complaining, hurting them, persevering in one's rage, excusing themselves from forgiving and contributing to reconciliation. The children and the domestic ones must accuse themselves of the reasons of impatience that they have given.
By laziness: neglecting the frequency of the sacraments, of prayer, of sermons, of the mortification of the passions, of the use of the means to correct himself, of not fleeing from occasions, of the bad fulfillment of obligations; of the arrangement, of the bad use of his time, of his temporal business and of the care of his eternal health.
So, as I was saying, old books are very difficult to get, these little books. But books that you can get, that are still being printed are books like this one: "Prayers of Liberation" for the use of the laity, this is [ ] Tradicionis, by Father Charles [ ] which I recommend to you and the book on Spirituality of the laity by Fray Antonio Royo Marín, this great theologian who has a broad explanation on the life of the laity, how we should maintain ourselves, that is, from the fundamental principles, the sacraments, life, marriage, religious life, the state of virginity, consecrated virgins, if there is a vocation; how to direct children, spouses, sacramental means... everything that Fray Antonio Royo Marín has is very broad. So I am going to read here only a fragment because there is a lot of explanation about penance.
THE LOGICAL ORDER OF THE SACRAMENTS IS THIS:
First Baptism, which regenerates us in Christ and without which no other Sacrament can be received. Secondly, Confirmation, which recalls and corroborates in our souls the baptismal grace, giving us the supernatural energy we need to confess and courageously defend our Christian faith, and thirdly, the Eucharist, which nourishes our soul with the Divine Food of the Body of Christ and to which all the other sacraments are ordered as to their end. If the Christian were always faithful to this triple sacramental grace, the sacrament of penance would have no reason to exist, but, unfortunately, human weakness and frailty are so great that man often falters on the path he has taken and falls on his face to the ground. The mercy of God foresaw this failure of human misery and provided the opportune remedy to raise us from our falls and even to resurrect us again to the life of grace if we had had the dreadful misfortune of losing it through mortal sin. Such a remedy is called the Sacrament of Penance. It is of faith, as we have already said when speaking of the Sacraments, that Christ instituted the 7 Sacraments administered by the Catholic Church, among them the Sacrament of Penance. The Sacrament of Penance poses a series of very interesting problems for all Christians, but above all for the laity who live in the midst of the structures of the world, and it would be impossible to cover them here in their full extent and breadth. However, by resorting to the schematic system, as on other occasions, we hope to offer the reader the most fundamental aspects in synthetic but sufficiently clear and expressive language.
Let us contemplate for a moment the scene of the repentant sinful woman weeping at the feet of Christ in Luke 7:36-50. Repentance is the act of the virtue of penance moved by charity under the influence of an actual grace of God. It is not the simple change of life or mutation of previous counsel, this is what Luther defended: "the only thing that counts is a new life, the change of mind and purpose". How many times have sinners and unbelievers been left with judgments of reprobation of their evil deeds and purposes that are nothing but mere human movements without taking God into account at all? The Protestant view of the nature of penance solely as a change of mind or purpose is expressly rejected at the Council of Trent."
And well, there are quite a few pages in the explanation of the Sacrament of Penance... I have left a rather long video [ ]. I hope I have helped you, and I also warn you that it is against the practice of the First Commandment to perform "new age" practices, practices that are of some pseudo religion, and I say "pseudo religion" because there is only one true religion. So if there are Buddhist practices such as yoga, to say so, it is a mortal sin to practice yoga, it is necessary to confess it because it is not only a simple exercise, they are positions of worship that have a purpose and that have a root. So, that root comes from these orientalisms of worship to pagan gods, to deities. So, if you have traveled around the world and bought articles that are supposedly lucky... what if the Buddha... what if the lucky horseshoe, what if the Turkish eye, what if the little hand of Fatima..., what if ...., all those articles are so serious. So, what happens? That many times, out of ignorance, we acquire these types of objects that offend God and allow access to the devil. Because many of these items are consecrated or if not all, these items and practices are consecrated to pagan gods and well, the Word of God says that the gods of the pagans are demons.
So, then, keep in mind that we are in a spiritual war. That in this life the greatest business we have is to gain eternal life. We are gambling with eternal life. So: keep us in the grace of God, be holy. The Father, God, commands us to be holy, God asks us to be holy, then He knows about our nature, He knows how we fell, how we continue to fall, to despise the Sacraments instituted by Our Lord Jesus Christ is to despise God and to despise the Cross because He paid a very expensive price for us to leave us these Sacraments. So we have to make use of God's grace and let's leave it in that reflection: Who do you want to be, like the good thief who repented at Jesus' side, asked for grace? Or do you want to be like that bad thief who does not care: "I don't care, I will do what I want". It is very important to keep ourselves in God's grace.
And well, if you can make this examination of conscience reach someone who has never done it, I recommend it to you. If you have your Sacraments, you don't know anything and you have tried everything, then try to make an examination of conscience, try to return to the Church of God, try to stay on the road to salvation. Because there is no more important business in this life than our salvation. So well, thank you very much to those who made it to the end of this video. I will try to answer some answers but I cannot give a spiritual direction, but, as I say there are books that can, if you do not have a good priest at hand, I recommend "Spirituality of the laity" as I have already said, I think that the Holy Spirit enlightened Fray Antonio Royo Marin to make this compendium so broad ... because I bother my spiritual director very little thanks to this book ... so well, God bless you, may the Blessed Virgin protect you, may St. Joseph always be your guide. Remember daily to pray the Holy Rosary, go to Holy Mass, read the Holy Scriptures, Eucharistic adoration and confession that the Blessed Virgin asks of us for these times. May God bless you. Thank you very much.
[Introduction]
... Well, Easter is coming, so it is an obligation for every child of God to receive communion [and confession] at least once a year, I would tell you: receive communion daily please, you have Jesus and you have the opportunity to receive Him, do it! But for those who have a long time without going to confession and want to be reconciled with God because, as we know, this life without God does not make any sense. So, for all those, you can watch this video, listen to it, make a good examination of conscience, also for all those who want to make a good examination of conscience, for those who receive communion frecquently... we do not examine ourselves properly. So then, well, because of ignorance, not being in full conscience, [sins] they do not become mortal, well, there are very good explanations, very good explanations on how to know if a sin was mortal or not. But in this case I am going to help you to do, to read to you better said, because the moral authority for this has the Holy Catholic Church.
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