Examination of Conscience

Continuing our study of the Seven Deadly Sins, here is an Examination of Conscience based on them by Holy Spirit Interactive. These are the types of questions to ask yourself prior to confession.

The 7 Deadly Sins

Anger

1. Do you refuse enduring anything contrary to what you want?
2. Do you allow yourself wrath to anyone that gives you trouble?
3. Do you allow yourself to proceed in quarrels, injurious language, curses, threats, revenge, or a capacity of exercising it?
4. Do you refuse to forgive those that have had misunderstandings?

Envy

1. Do you have trouble with the success of a friend?
2. Do you try and do an unkindness or speak ill of a friend?
3. Do you create an ill opinion of him to make yourself look better to another?
4. Are you happy when something bad happens to your enemies?

Gluttony

1. Do you eat to excess?
2. Do you drink to excess?
3. Is your over indulgence an ill example to others?

Pride

1. Do you have a too high opinion of yourself?
2. Do you have such a high opinion of yourself that you have contempt for others?
3. Do you tell the good things you do just to be esteemed by others?
4. Do you confide too much in your own strength thereby showing ingratitude to God?

Sloth

1. Do you love idleness?
2. Do you neglect doing for others?
3. Do you neglect your prayers?
4. Are you too generous with play and not with work?
5. Are you neat and orderly in your appearance?
6. Are you neat and orderly in your house and possessions?

Lust

1. Do you love others over God?
2. Do you use indecent gestures or actions?
3. Do you read immodest books or look at immodest pictures?
4. Do you willfully entertain impure thoughts?

Greed

1. Have you given when needed?
2. Have you hoarded?
3. Do you want more?