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Prayer Request : Go now and call this request “My Call to Jesus.”
March 11, 2024

Monday May 14, 2012 at 06:00 pm

My dearest beloved daughter, your gift to Me is accepted and as a result will save a further 5 million souls. *It is My dearest wish to bring an end to your suffering, but, this precious gift you bring Me will now mean I can save more of God’s children.

Never forget that this Mission is to save mankind from Hell. I need your help and the help of others to do this.

Never feel alone, for I love you and am with you the entire time. So many more of God’s children are beginning to hear My Voice at last.

The Work of the Holy Spirit will bear fruit and very soon the Love of God will be felt in the hearts of even the most barren.

Those lost, empty and barren souls will feel a Flame of Love and witness a familiar yearning to be part of My New Kingdom on Earth. Many will not understand why, but they will be unable to deny their feelings of warmth, love and peace.

So many will be surprised and will want to speak with Me. You must now unite people everywhere to request the Gift of My Love. They must ask for special favours to be granted. You, My daughter, must designate one day a week to this. Each lost soul must ask Me to help them. If their request is according to My Holy Will, then I will answer their prayers. This will instil in them a stronger link to My Sacred Heart and My Great Mercy.

Go now and call this request “My Call to Jesus.” My daughter, do this as soon as you can as I wish to ensure that those souls, especially those who do not accept that I speak now, they will finally realise how close I Am to each single soul. Tell them that I love everyone and don’t exclude one single sinner no matter how grievous their sin.

All I ask is for them to come to Me and ask Me to help them.

Your Jesus

*the souls referred to on the first line, are to do with personal suffering offered by Maria Divine Mercy and do not refer to the world as a whole because billions are currently being saved through prayer

If you have a prayer request, please submit it here https://fatherofloveandmercy.wordpress.com/2024/03/11/prayer-request-go-now-and-call-this-request-my-call-to-jesus/. You may use your preferred language or dialect in making the request

Book of Truth In Person Seminar June 1st 2024

Book of Truth In Person Seminar
March 22, 2024



Praised be Jesus and Mary!
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ…
The Mission of Jesus to Mankind invites you all to the in-person Seminar of The Book of Truth in which you will discover the Joy of knowing the Truth. The topic of the seminar is TO BECOME A NEW PERSON IN CHRIST.
This Seminar will be held on Saturday, June 1st, 2024 in Houston, Texas.
“It is not easy to retain your faith in Me, My children, as there are so many obstacles, which block your devotion. You will, from time to time, feel a complete emptiness in your soul. This can leave you in an agitated state because you feel alone without a crutch.
For, My faithful followers, you must understand this. I, despite the loneliness you may experience, Am never far away. All of these episodes have one goal, to strengthen your faith, in such a way, so as to ensure that you move a few steps towards Me each time.”
Your Jesus | Book of Truth – November 24, 2010

We may experience loneliness at times like Jesus said, but He is always with us and wants to comfort us. This will be a time for us to be able to come together with like-minded believers to encourage and support each other.
Through the Book of Truth, the Lord invites us to take part in this Mission of Salvation. He wants us to become closer to Him, to become a new person in Him. He also desires that we help Him to save all His children and we can do this by drawing nearer to Him through prayer.
Throughout this Seminar we will focus on messages in the Book of Truth discussing how to become a new person in Christ. We will discuss how to love our families, our friends, and all people as our love for God grows and deepens. We will hear what Jesus says about the stairway to spiritual perfection and we will also pray for the salvation of souls. contact email: JTM.Seminar.USA@proton.me

Jesus, I trust in you!
Mother of Salvation, pray for us!
Jesus to Mankind USA

Circle of Protection over our Nations

Circle of Protection over our Nations
April 17, 2024

On June 20th, 2012, Our Mother of Salvation gave a Message to Maria Divine Mercy with a call to form a circle of protection over our nations. This is an excerpt from that Message (link to the full Message below): “I, the Mother of God, as Co-Redemptrix and Mediatrix have been given the graces to destroy the serpent. By asking me to help you I can offer you protection children from fear. I can, with my son, give you the graces and the circle of protection which no fallen angel can penetrate.

Satan cannot harm or attack all those who say my Holy Rosary every day.

By reciting three or more Rosaries you can extend this protection for others. If even a hundred people could do this they could save their nation from the contamination spread by the evil one.

You must gather together children and pray to protect yourselves.” https://fatherofloveandmercy.wordpress.com/2012/06/20/virgin-mary-i-can-with-my-son-give-you-the-graces-and-the-circle-of-protection-which-no-fallen-angel-can-penetrate/

In obedience to Our Mother’s instructions to gather together to protect ourselves, we are looking for at least 100 volunteers from our country, each committed to pledging and praying three or more Rosaries per day which include the intention to form a Circle of Protection over our country. If you already pray three or more Rosaries per day, then please include this intention within your Rosaries each day.

To become a pledge volunteer for our country, please go to your country’s page on https://jtmglobal.network and click on the “make pledge” button.

Please note that this pledge is an honorary personal promise and gift to our Mother of Salvation, and the three Rosaries are to be prayed along with your other private devotions. There will be no official online zoom prayer groups formed for this purpose.

We will then post on our country’s page to indicate the number of people who have pledged to come pick up the Cross and follow Our Mother’s instructions to form a Circle of Protection over our country. If you have friends or family who would also like to participate, then please have them register on the official website. This way they too will receive updates for the Circle of Protection forming for each nation.

May God help us to quickly unite right now to form a Circle of Protection in all nations

Today - Good Friday begins the Divine Mercy Novena.

Please visit this link to begin the Divine Mercy Novena running 9 days until Divine Mercy Sunday. Begin the Novena with the theme of the day listed as Day 1, Day 2 etc.

This can be prayed any time of the day, however, the Hour of Mercy Jesus lavishes His Divine Mercy upon His children is the hour of 3pm until 4pm.

Here is the link:

https://www.thedivinemercy.org/message/devotions/novena/firstday

Book of Truth In Person Seminar June 1st, 2024 | From 8am – 5pm | Houton, Texas - USA

 


Book of Truth In Person Seminar June 1st, 2024 | From 8am – 5pm | Houton, Texas - USA
March 22, 2024



Praised be Jesus and Mary!
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ…
The Mission of Jesus to Mankind invites you all to the in-person Seminar of The Book of Truth in which you will discover the Joy of knowing the Truth. The topic of the seminar is TO BECOME A NEW PERSON IN CHRIST.
This Seminar will be held on Saturday, June 1st, 2024 in Houston, Texas.
“It is not easy to retain your faith in Me, My children, as there are so many obstacles, which block your devotion. You will, from time to time, feel a complete emptiness in your soul. This can leave you in an agitated state because you feel alone without a crutch.
For, My faithful followers, you must understand this. I, despite the loneliness you may experience, Am never far away. All of these episodes have one goal, to strengthen your faith, in such a way, so as to ensure that you move a few steps towards Me each time.”
Your Jesus | Book of Truth – November 24, 2010

We may experience loneliness at times like Jesus said, but He is always with us and wants to comfort us. This will be a time for us to be able to come together with like-minded believers to encourage and support each other.
Through the Book of Truth, the Lord invites us to take part in this Mission of Salvation. He wants us to become closer to Him, to become a new person in Him. He also desires that we help Him to save all His children and we can do this by drawing nearer to Him through prayer.
Throughout this Seminar we will focus on messages in the Book of Truth discussing how to become a new person in Christ. We will discuss how to love our families, our friends, and all people as our love for God grows and deepens. We will hear what Jesus says about the stairway to spiritual perfection and we will also pray for the salvation of souls. contact email: JTM.Seminar.USA@proton.me

Jesus, I trust in you!
Mother of Salvation, pray for us!
Jesus to Mankind USA

The Cross is your link to Eternal Life. Never forsake the Cross

 

The Cross is your link to Eternal Life. Never forsake the Cross
April 15, 2014
 

My dearly beloved daughter, when My beloved followers celebrate Good Friday, they must remember how My Love extends to the human race.

Those who persecuted Me and then killed Me were full of hatred and had hearts of stone. I died for them, despite their hatred, and I suffered a great Agony so that they could be redeemed. Still, so many people today hate and despise Me, on such a grand scale, that were I to reveal the evil, which ravages their souls, you would not be able to stand up.

My attempts to prepare the world, through the Book of Truth, will be fought by My enemies, everywhere. The worst attacks will come from satanic groups, many of whom pose as Christians, so they can vent their anger, by pretending to defend their faith. Such is the manner in which Satan uses his willing victims to attack My Work. How wretched their souls are and how sorrowful I Am, as they continue to betray Me, fling mud at Me and spread lies about My Word, in an effort to steal souls from My Merciful Heart.

I cry Tears of Agony, during this week; because the time is short and I know that no matter how hard I try, many souls will still turn their backs on Me. Why do these souls hate Me so? The answer is because they have no love for Me at all. Many of them find it terrifying that the hatred they feel for Me in their hearts cannot be washed away. They are so possessed by the evil one, that they spend every minute of their day cursing Me.

The vast majority of people no longer believe in Me – it is a small number, who do believe, in an ocean of souls whose magnitude stretches from one side of the Earth to the other. But, I promise you that I will gather as many souls as I can and because of the Love, which I have for you, will extend My Mercy even amongst those who do not deserve it. How I welcome the good, the loving and those pure souls, who come before Me. They fill Me with great joy. Oh how they soothe My Wounds. How they bring Me relief from the sorrow I endure for My poor sinners, who have no idea as to the great joy I promised them in My New Kingdom. So many souls will sadly throw away the key that I gave them to Eternal Life – and for what? A life devoid of meaning, a life full of titillation and empty promises. A weary life of toil, that brings no life – only that which ends in dust. I Am your life. I bring you life. When you accept My death on the Cross and acknowledge My Resurrection, you will never endure death.

To you, of this generation, I say this. You, who are with Me, will not endure death – not even death of the body. Those who betray Me, through sin, when the Truth is given to you, will have no life. So you, My beloved followers, must never be afraid of this Mission.

I will take you and shower you with all the Gifts, which My Father is anxious to bestow upon all of you, as He finally gathers His children into the Kingdom He promised you when He sent Me, His only Son, to salvage your souls, by My death on the Cross. The Cross is your link to Eternal Life. Never forsake the Cross. My death was your route to Eternal Life. Without My Cross, death will prevail for those who reject it.

Your Jesus

Guide for Examination of Conscience for Confession of Sins

 


Guide for Examination of Conscience for Confession of Sins
March 16, 2016


Guide for Examination of Conscience for Confession of Sins
6 STEPS FOR A GOOD CONFESSION
· Examine your conscience – what sins have you committed since your last good confession.
· Be sincerely sorry for your sins.
· Confess your sins to the priest.
· Make certain that you confess all your mortal sins and the number of them.
· After your confession, do the penance the priest gives to you.
· Pray daily for the strength to avoid the occasion of sin, especially for those sins you were just absolved from.
ACT OF CONTRITION
O my God, I am heartily sorry for having offended You, and I detest all my sins because I dread the loss of Heaven and the pains of Hell, but most of all because they offend You, my God, Who are all good and deserving of all my love. I firmly resolve, with the help of Your grace, to confess my sins, to do penance, and to amend my life. Amen
Crusade Prayer (8) The Confession

Dearest Jesus, I ask your pardon for all my sins and for the hurt and injury I have caused to others. I humbly pray for the graces to avoid offending You again and to offer penance according to your Most Holy Will.
I plead for the forgiveness of any future offense, which I may partake in and which will cause you pain and suffering. Take me with you into the new Era of Peace, so that I may become part of Your family for eternity.
I love You, Jesus.
I need You.
I honour You and everything You stand for.
Help me, Jesus, so that I may be worthy to enter Your Kingdom.
Amen.





FIRST COMMANDMENT
“I am the Lord your God. You shall not have strange gods before Me.” (Ex 20:2,3)
· Did I doubt or deny that God exists?
· Did I refuse to believe what God has revealed to us?
· Did I believe in fortune telling, horoscopes, dreams, the occult, good-luck charms, tarot cards, palmistry, Ouija boards, seances, reincarnation?
· Did I deny that I was Catholic?
· Did I leave the Catholic Faith?
· Did I give time to God each day in prayer?
· Did I love God with my whole heart?
· Did I despair of or presume on God’s mercy?
· Did I have false gods in my life that I gave greater attention to than God, like money, profession, drugs, TV, fame, pleasure, property, etc.?
SECOND COMMANDMENT
“You shall not take the Name of the Lord your God in vain.” (Ex 20:7)
· Did I blaspheme or insult God?
· Did I take God’s name carelessly or uselessly?
· Did I curse, or break an oath or vow?
· Did I get angry with God?
THIRD COMMANDMENT
“Remember that you keep holy the Sabbath Day.” (Ex 20:8)
· Did I miss Mass Sunday or a Holy Day of Obligation through my own fault?
· Did I come to Mass on time? Leave early?
· Did I do work on Sunday that was not necessary?
· Did I set aside Sunday as a day of rest and a family day?
· Did I show reverence in the presence of Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament?
FOURTH COMMANDMENT
“Honor your father and your mother.” (Ex 20:12)
· Did I disobey or disrespect my parents or legitimate superiors?
· Did I neglect my duties to my husband, wife, children or parents?
· Did I neglect to give good religious example to my family?
· Did I fail to actively take an interest in the religious education /formation of my children?
· Did I fail to educate myself on the true teachings of the Church?
· Did I give scandal by what I said or did, especially to the young?
· Did I cause anyone to leave the faith?
· Did I cause tension and fights in my family?
· Did I care for my aged and infirm relatives?
· Did I give a full day’s work for a full day’s pay?
· Did I give a fair wage to my employees?
FIFTH COMMANDMENT
“You shall not kill.” (Ex 20:13)
· Did I kill or physically injure anyone?
· Did I have an abortion, or advise someone else to have an abortion? (One who procures an abortion is automatically excommunicated, as is anyone who is involved in an abortion, Canon 1398. The excommunication will be lifted in the Sacrament of Reconciliation.)
· Did I use or cause my spouse to use birth control pills (whether or not realizing that birth control pills do abort the fetus if and when conceived)?
· Did I attempt suicide?
· Did I take part in or approve of “mercy killing” (euthanasia)?
· Did I get angry, impatient, envious, unkind, proud, revengeful, jealous, hateful toward another, lazy?
· Did I give bad example by drug abuse, drinking alcohol to excess, fighting, quarreling?
· Did I abuse my children?
SIXTH COMMANDMENT
“You shall not commit adultery.” (Ex 20:14)


“You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife.” (Ex 20:17)

Note: In the area of deliberate sexual sins listed below, all are mortal sins if there is sufficient reflection and full consent of the will. “No fornicators, idolaters, or adulterers, no sodomites,… will inherit the kingdom of God.” (1 Cor 6:9-10) “Anyone who looks lustfully at a woman has already committed adultery with her in his thoughts.” (Mt 5:28)
· Did I willfully entertain impure thoughts or desires?
· Did I use impure or suggestive words? Tell impure stories? Listen to them?
· Did I deliberately look at impure TV, videos, plays, pictures or movies? Or deliberately read impure materials?
· Did I commit impure acts by myself (masturbation)?
· Did I commit impure acts with another – fornication (premarital sex), adultery (sex with a married person)?
· Did I practice artificial birth control (by pills, device, withdrawal)?
· Did I marry or advise anyone to marry outside the Church?
· Did I avoid the occasions of impurity?
· Did I try to control my thoughts?
· Did I engage in homosexual activity?
· Did I respect all members of the opposite sex, or have I thought of other people as objects?
· Did I or my spouse have sterilization done?
· Did I abuse my marriage rights?
SEVENTH & TENTH COMMANDMENTS
“You shall not steal.” (Ex 20:15) “You shall not covet your neighbor’s goods.” (Ex 20:17)
· Did I steal, cheat, help or encourage others to steal or keep stolen goods? Have I made restitution for stolen goods?
· Did I fulfill my contracts; give or accept bribes; pay my bills; rashly gamble or speculate; deprive my family of the necessities of life?
· Did I waste time at work, school or at home?
· Did I envy other people’s families or possessions?
· Did I make material possessions the purpose of my life?
EIGHTH COMMANDMENT
“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.” (Ex 20:16)
· Did I lie?
· Did I deliberately deceive others, or injure others by lies?
· Did I commit perjury?
· Did I gossip or reveal others’ faults or sins?
· Did I fail to keep secret what should be confidential?
OTHER SINS
· Did I fast on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday?
· Did I eat meat on the Fridays of Lent or Ash Wednesday?
· Did I fail to receive Holy Communion during Eastertime?
· Did I go to Holy Communion in a state of mortal sin? Without fasting (water and medicine permitted) for one hour from food and drink?
· Did I make a bad confession?
· Did I fail to contribute to the support of the Church?
“Whoever eats the bread and drinks the cup of the Lord unworthily sins against the Body and Blood of the Lord. … He who eats and drinks without recognizing the Body eats and drinks judgement on himself.” (1 Cor 11:27-29)
So, to receive Holy Communion while in the state of mortal sin (having committed a mortal sin which has not been confessed and forgiven in the Sacrament of Confession) is itself a mortal sin – a mortal sin of sacrilege.
“O God, be merciful to me, a sinner.” (Lk 18:13)
“Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven…” (Jn 20:23)
“Though your sins be like scarlet, they shall become white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall become white as wool.” (Is 1:18)
“If we confess our sins, He who is upright can be depended upon to forgive sins, and to cleanse us from every wrong.” (1 Jn 1:9)
“Father, forgive them; they do not know what they are doing.” (Lk 23:24)
“Forgive us our sins, for we too forgive all who do us wrong.” (Lk 11:4)

An Examination of Conscience for AdultsCompiled from approved sources
I believe in a loving Savior Who forgives my sins and Who gives me the grace to become a saint. Jesus Christ, through the ministry of His priests, does both in the Sacrament of Penance.
“As the Father hath sent Me, I also send you … Receive ye the Holy Ghost. Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them; and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained.” (John 20:21-23)
“If your sins be as scarlet, they shall be made as white as snow.” (Isaias 1:18)
“I am not come to call the just, but sinners.” (Matt. 9:13)
“Men have received from God a power not granted to angels or archangels. Never was it said to the heavenly spirits, ‘Whatsoever you shall bind and unbind on earth shall be bound and unbound in heaven.’ The princes of this world can only bind and unbind the body. The power of the priest extends further; it reaches the soul, and it is exercised not only in baptizing, but still more in pardoning sins. Let us not blush, then, to confess our faults. He who blushes to discover his sins to a man, and who will not confess, shall be covered with shame on the Day of Judgment in the presence of the whole universe.” (St. John Chrysostom, Treatise on Priests, Bk. 3)
Prayer before Confession: O Lord, grant me light to see myself as Thou dost see me, and the grace to be truly and effectively sorry for my sins. O Mary, help me to make a good confession.
How to Confess: First examine your conscience well, then tell the priest the specific kind of sins you have committed and, to the best of your ability, how many times you have committed them since your last good confession. You are obliged to confess only mortal sins, since you can obtain forgiveness for your venial sins by sacrifices and acts of charity. If you are in doubt about whether a sin is mortal or venial, mention your doubt to the confessor. Remember also, confession of venial sins is very helpful for avoiding sin and advancing toward Heaven.
Necessary conditions for a sin to be mortal:
1. Serious Matter
2. Sufficient Reflection
3. Full Consent of the Will
Preliminary Considerations:
1. Have I ever deliberately failed to confess a past serious sin, or have I willfully disguised or hidden such a sin?
Note: The deliberate concealing of a mortal sin invalidates one´s confession and makes the person guilty of another mortal sin. Remember that the confession is private under the Seal of Confession, i.e., it is a mortal sin for the priest to reveal the matter of one´s confession to anyone else.
2. Have I been guilty of irreverence for this sacrament by failing to examine my conscience carefully?
3. Have I failed to do the penance given to me by the priest?
4. Have I any habits of serious sin to confess first (e.g. impurity, drunkenness, etc.)?
First Commandment: I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not have strange gods before Me. (Including sins against Faith, Hope and Charity)
1. Have I neglected the knowledge of my faith as taught in the catechism, such as the Apostles’ Creed, the Ten Commandments, the Seven Sacraments, the Our Father, etc.?
2. Have I deliberately doubted or denied any of the teachings of the Church?
3. Have I taken part in any non-Catholic worship?
4. Am I a member of any non-Catholic religious organization, secret society or anti-Catholic group?
5. Have I knowingly read any heretical, blasphemous or anti-Catholic literature?
6. Have I practiced any superstitions (such as horoscopes, fortune telling, Ouija board, etc.)?
7. Have I omitted religious duties or practices through motives of human respect?
8. Have I recommended myself daily to God?
9. Have I been faithful to my daily prayers?
10. Have I abused the Sacraments in any way? Received them irreverently, e.g. Communion in the Hand without obeying the principles and the 7 rules promulgated by Paul VI as binding in this matter?
11. Have I made fun of God, Our Lady, the Saints, the Church, the Sacraments, other holy things?
12. Have I been guilty of great irreverence in church, e.g., conversation, behavior, or dress?
13. Have I been indifferent with regard to my Catholic Faith — believing one can be saved in any religion, that all religions are equal?
14. Have I presumed on God´s mercy at any time?
15. Have I despaired of God´s mercy?
16. Have I hated God?
17. Have I given too much importance to any creature, activity, object or opinion?
Second Commandment: Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.
1. Have I sworn by God’s name falsely, rashly or in slight and trivial matters?
2. Have I murmured or complained against God (blasphemy)?
3. Have I cursed myself or others, or any creature?
4. Have I angered others so as to make them swear or blaspheme God?
5. Have I broken a vow made to God?
Third Commandment: Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day.
1. Have I missed Mass on Sundays or Holy Days of obligation?
2. Have I been late for Mass on Sundays or Holy Days of obligation or left early through my own fault?
3. Have I made others miss Mass on Sundays or Holy Days of obligation, leave early or be late for Mass?
4. Have I been willfully distracted during Mass?
5. Have I done or commanded unnecessary servile work on Sunday or Holy Days of Obligation?
6. Have I bought or sold things not of necessity on Sunday and Holy Days of obligation?
Fourth Commandment: Honor thy father and thy mother.
1. Have I been disobedient or disrespectful to my parents, or have I neglected or refused to aid them in their wants or to do their last will?
2. Have I shown irreverence to others in positions of authority?
3. Have I maligned or insulted priests or others consecrated to God?
4. Have I failed in due reverence to aged persons?
5. Have I mistreated my spouse or my children?
6. Have I been disobedient or disrespectful to my husband?
7. Regarding my children:
Have I neglected their material needs?
Have I failed to care for their early baptism? *(See below.)
Have I failed to care for their proper religious education?
Have I allowed them to neglect their religious duties?
Have I allowed them to date/go steady without the prospect of marriage within the near future? (St. Alphonsus says 1 year maximum.)
Have I failed to supervise the company they keep?
Have I failed to discipline them when they need it?
Have I given them a bad example?
Have I scandalized them by arguing with my spouse in front of my children?
Have I scandalized them by cursing or swearing in front of them?
Have I guarded modesty in the home?
Have I permitted them to wear immodest clothing (mini skirts; tight pants, dresses, or sweaters; see-through blouses, short-shorts, revealing swim suits, etc.)?†
Have I denied their freedom to marry or follow a religious vocation?
*Infants should be baptized as soon as possible. Apart from particular diocesan prescriptions, it appears to be the general view … that an infant should be baptized within about a week or ten days after birth. Many Catholics defer Baptism for a fortnight or a little over. The view that Baptism should be administered within three days after birth is considered too strict. St. Alphonsus, following common opinion, thought that a delay, without reason, beyond ten or eleven days would be a grievous sin. In view of modern custom, which is known and not corrected by local Ordinaries, a delay beyond a month without reason would be a serious sin. If there is no probable danger to the child, parents cannot be convicted of serious sin if they defer Baptism a little beyond three weeks at the outside, but the practice of having an infant baptized within about a week or ten days of birth is to be strongly commended, and indeed an earlier date may be rightly recommended. — H. Davis, S.J., Moral and Pastoral Theology, Vol. III, pg. 65, Sheed and Ward, New York 1935
†Ask for leaflet LF05 The Marylike Standards for Modesty in Dress
Fifth Commandment: Thou shalt not kill.
1. Have I procured, desired, or hastened the death or bodily injury of anyone?
2. Have I borne hatred?
3. Have I oppressed anyone?
4. Have I desired revenge?
5. Have I caused enmity between others?
6. Have I quarreled or fought with anyone?
7. Have I wished evil on anyone?
8. Have I intended or attempted to injure or mistreat others?
9. Is there anyone with whom I refuse to speak, or against whom I bear a grudge?
10. Have I taken pleasure in anyone’s misfortunes?
11. Have I been jealous or envious of anyone?
12. Have I had or attempted to have an abortion or counseled anyone else to do so?
13. Have I mutilated my body unnecessarily in any way?
14. Have I entertained thoughts of suicide, desired to commit suicide or attempted suicide?
15. Have I become drunk, used illicit drugs?
16. Have I overeaten or do I neglect to eat properly, i.e., nutritious foods?
17. Have I failed to correct in Charity?
18. Have I harmed anyone’s soul, especially children, by giving scandal through bad example?
19. Have I harmed my own soul by intentionally and without necessity exposing it to temptations, e.g.: bad TV, bad music, beaches, etc.
Sixth and Ninth Commandments: Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor´s wife.
1. Have I denied my spouse his or her marriage rights?
2. Have I practiced birth control (by pills, devices, withdrawal)?
3. Have I abused my marriage rights in any other way?
4. Have I committed adultery or fornication (premarital sex)?
5. Have I committed any unnatural sin against purity (homosexuality or lesbianism, etc.)?
6. Have I touched or embraced another impurely?
7. Have I engaged in prolonged or passionate kissing?
8. Have I engaged in petting?
9. Have I sinned impurely by myself (masturbation)?
10. Have I entertained or taken pleasure in impure thoughts?
11. Have I indulged in lustful desires for anyone, or willfully desired to see or do anything impure?
12. Have I willfully indulged in any sexual pleasure whether complete or incomplete?
13. Have I been an occasion of sin for others by wearing tight or otherwise revealing and immodest clothing?
14. Have I done anything to provoke or occasion impure thoughts or desires in others deliberately or through carelessness?
15. Have I read indecent literature or looked at bad pictures?
16. Have I watched suggestive movies, TV programs, or Internet pornography or permitted my children to do so?
17. Have I used indecent language or told indecent stories?
18. Have I willingly listened to such stories?
19. Have I boasted of my sins or taken delight in past sins?
20. Have I been in lewd company?
21. Have I consented to impure glances?
22. Have I neglected to control my imagination?
23. Have I prayed at once to banish such bad thoughts and temptations?
24. Have I avoided laziness, gluttony, idleness, and the occasions of impurity?
25. Have I attended immodest dances or indecent plays?
26. Have I unnecessarily remained alone in the company of someone of the opposite sex?Note Well: Do not be afraid to tell the priest any impure sin you may have committed. Do not hide or try to disguise any such sin. The priest is there to help you and forgive you. Nothing you say will shock him, so do not be afraid, no matter how ashamed you might be.
Seventh and Tenth Commandments: Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor´s goods.
1. Have I stolen anything? What or how much?
2. Have I damaged anyone’s property?
3. Have I negligently spoiled anyone´s property?
4. Have I been negligent in the stewardship of other people’s money or goods?
5. Have I cheated or defrauded others?
6. Have I gambled excessively?
7. Have I refused or neglected to pay any debts?
8. Have I acquired anything known to be stolen?
9. Have I failed to return things borrowed?
10. Have I cheated my employer of an honest day’s work?
11. Have I cheated my employees of their wages?
12. Have I refused or neglected to help anyone in urgent need?
13. Have I failed to make restitution for my stealing, cheating and frauds? (Ask the priest how to go about making restitution, that is, returning to the owner what you unjustly took from him/her.)
14. Have I been envious of another because I don´t have what he has?
15. Have I been jealous of what another has?
16. Have I been stingy?
17. Have I been grasping and avaricious, placing too great importance upon material goods and comforts? Is my heart set on earthly possessions or on the true treasures of Heaven?
Eighth Commandment: Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
1. Have I lied about anyone (calumny)?
2. Have my lies caused them any material or spiritual harm?
3. Have I rashly judged anyone (i.e. believed firmly, without sufficient evidence, that they are guilty of some moral defect or crime)?
4. Have I injured the good name of another by revealing true but hidden faults (detraction)?
5. Have I disclosed another´s sins?
6. Have I been guilty of talebearing, (i.e. reporting something unfavorable said of someone by another so as to create enmity between them)?
7. Have I lent an ear to or encouraged the spreading of scandal about my neighbor?
8. Have I taken false oaths or signed false documents?
9. Am I, without necessity, critical, negative or ever uncharitable in my talk?
10. Have I flattered others?
The Spiritual and Corporal Works of Mercy
Have I neglected to do the following when circumstances obliged me:
The Seven Spiritual Works of Mercy
1. To admonish sinners. 2. To instruct the ignorant. 3. To counsel the doubtful.
4. To comfort the sorrowful. 5. To bear wrongs patiently. 6. To forgive all injuries. 7. To pray for the living and the dead?
The Seven Corporal Works of Mercy
1. To feed the hungry. 2. To give drink to the thirsty. 3. To clothe the naked.
4. To visit and ransom the captives. 5. To harbor the harborless. 6. To visit the sick. 7. To bury the dead?
Remember our Holy Catholic Faith teaches us that … as the body without the spirit is dead; so also faith without works is dead. (James, 2:26)
The Seven Deadly Sins and the Opposite Virtues
1. Pride……………………………………………………Humility
2. Covetousness……………………………………….Liberality
3. Lust…………………………………………………….Chastity
4. Anger………………………………………………….Meekness
5. Gluttony……………………………………………..Temperance
6. Envy……………………………………………………Brotherly love
7. Sloth……………………………………………………Diligence
Five Effects of Pride
1. Vainglory: a. Boasting b. Dissimulation / Duplicity
2. Ambition
3. Contempt for others
4. Anger / Revenge / Resentment
5. Stubbornness / Obstinacy.
Nine Ways of Being an Accessory to Another´s Sin
a. Have I knowingly caused others to sin?
b. Have I co-operated in the sins of others:
1. By counsel. 2. By command. 3. By consent. 4. By provocation. 5. By praise or flattery. 6. By concealment. 7. By partaking. 8. By silence. 9. By defense of the ill done?
The Four Sins which Cry to Heaven for Vengeance
1. Willful Murder. 2. The sin of Sodomy or Lesbianism.
3. Oppression of the poor. 4. Defrauding the laborer of his just wages.
The Six Commandments of the Church
1. Have I heard Mass on Sundays and holy days of obligation?
2. Have I fasted and abstained on the days appointed and have I kept the Eucharistic fast?
3. Have I confessed at least once a year?
4. Have I received the Holy Eucharist at least once in the year?
5. Have I contributed as far as I must to the support of the Church?
6. Have I observed the laws of the Church concerning Marriage, i.e.: Marriage without a priest present, or marrying a relative or non-Catholic?
The Five Blasphemies Against the Immaculate Heart of Mary
1. Have I blasphemed against the Immaculate Conception?
2. Have I blasphemed against Our Lady´s Perpetual Virginity?
3. Have I blasphemed against Our Lady´s Divine Maternity? Have I failed to recognize Our Lady as the Mother of all men?
4. Have I publicly sought to sow in the hearts of children indifference or scorn, or even hatred, of this Immaculate Mother?
5. Have I outraged Her directly in Her Holy images?
Finally:
Have I received Holy Communion in the state of mortal sin? (This is a very grave sacrilege.)
St. Anthony Mary Claret´s Examination of Venial Sins
The soul should avoid all venial sins, especially those which pave the way for grave sin. It is not enough, my soul, to have a firm resolve to suffer death rather than consent to any grave sin. It is necessary to have a like resolution to venial sin. He who does not find in himself this will, cannot have security. There is nothing which can give us such a certain security of eternal salvation as an uninterrupted cautiousness to avoid even the lightest venial sin, and a notable, all-extensive earnestness reaching to all practices of the spiritual life — earnestness in prayer, and in dealing with God; earnestness in mortification and self-denial; earnestness in being humble and in accepting contempt; earnestness in obeying and renouncing one’s own self-will; earnest love of God and neighbor. He who wants to gain this earnestness and keep it, must necessarily have the resolve to always avoid especially the following venial sins:
1. The sin of giving entrance into your heart to any unreasonable suspicion or unfair judgment against your neighbor.
2. The sin of introducing talk about another’s defects or offending charity in any other way, even lightly.
3. The sin of omitting out of laziness our spiritual practices or of performing them with voluntary neglect.
4. The sin of having a disordered affection for somebody.
5. The sin of having a vain esteem for oneself, or of taking vain satisfaction in things pertaining to us.
6. The sin of receiving the holy Sacraments in a careless way, with distractions and other irreverences, and without a serious preparation.
7. . Impatience, resentment, any failure to accept disappointments as coming from God’s Hand; for this puts obstacles in the way of the decrees and dispositions of Divine Providence concerning us.
8. The sin of giving ourselves an occasion that can even remotely blemish a spotless condition of holy purity.
9. The fault of advertently hiding from those who ought to learn them, one’s bad inclinations, weaknesses, and mortifications, seeking to pursue the road of virtue not under the direction of obedience, but under the guidance of one’s own whims.

Note: This speaks of times when we might have worthy direction if we seek it, but we prefer to follow our own dim lights.

Prayer for a Good Confession
O my God, by my grievous sins I have crucified again Thy Divine Son and made Him a mockery. For this I have deserved Thy wrath and made myself fit for the fires of hell. How ungrateful have I been to Thee as well, my heavenly Father, Who created me out of nothing, redeemed me by the precious Blood of Thy Son and sanctified me by Thy holy sacraments and by the Holy Ghost. But Thou hast spared me by Thy mercy, to make this confession. Receive me back as Thy prodigal son and grant me to confess well, that I may begin anew to love Thee with my whole heart and soul, and henceforth to keep Thy commandments and suffer patiently whatever temporal punishment may remain. I hope by Thy goodness and power to obtain everlasting life in Paradise. Through Jesus Christ, Our Lord. Amen.

A Final Note
Remember to confess your sins with supernatural sorrow as well as a firm resolution not to sin again, and to avoid the near occasions of sin. Ask your confessor to help you with any difficulties you have in making a good confession. Say your penance promptly.
An Act of Contrition
O my God, I am heartily sorry for having offended Thee. And I detest all my sins because I dread the loss of Heaven and the pains of hell, but most of all because they offend Thee, my God, Who art all good and deserving of all my love. I firmly resolve, with the help of Thy grace, to confess my sins, to do penance, and to amend my life. Amen