Have You Taken A Look Today?

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[We need to examine our conscience daily]. That the general examination of conscience produces its full effect, namely self-knowledge and self-reform, it should consist of five parts, namely: thank God for His benefits; ask grace to know and root out our sins; demand an account of our souls concerning thoughts, words, actions and omissions, from the time of our last examination to the present; implore God's pardon for our trespasses; and make a firm purpose of amendment.  In the general examination the different thoughts and actions since our last general examination are reviewed.  How we have acquitted ourselves in: our duties to God (prayers and exercises of piety); our duties toward our neighbor (kindness, charity, obedience and truth); our duties toward ourselves (patience, humility, temperance, purity, duties of our state [in life]). This general examination is ended by asking pardon of God and promising Him that we shall do better in the future. 

 

Father Charles Hugo Doyle