Ten Commandments - 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 continued mortal sin?
-Are there other "gods" in my life? Money, Security, Power, People, Technology, etc.?

-Are there any sins that control my life?

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?

-Have I used God’s name to attempt to manipulate a situation?

-Have I tried to control God by using his hame?

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?

-Am I guilty of being a workaholic?

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 a 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?

Have I assassinated another person’s character?

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, and 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,

            Individual’s achiements?

-Have I taken advantage of others to their detriment?

-Have I borrowed anything and not returned it?

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 slandering them?

-Have I ever deliberately told a lie in Confession or have I withheld a mortal sin from the priest

            in Confession?

-Have I gossiped?

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?