How Often Do You Examine Your Conscience?

[pprimeau1976]

I hope I am not being vague, but I am talking about the practice of examining your behavior and your conscience in order to reflect on where you may have sinned through a period of time. Some people such as myself were pretty active Catholics and never even heard of the term “examination of conscience”

I need to make it a daily habit and even so, I need to make it a focused daily habit. I have way too many distractions.

 

[Prague]

Every night after saying prayers and the Act of Contrition I try and review my day, and ask for forgiveness for what I have done, and for what I have not done. Then I say the rosary.

 

[Andruschak]

I hope I am not being vague, but I am talking about the practice of examining your behavior and your conscience in order to reflect on where you may have sinned through a period of time. Some people such as myself were pretty active Catholics and never even heard of the term “examination of conscience”

I need to make it a daily habit and even so, I need to make it a focused daily habit. I have way too many distractions.

Part of my nightly Compline Office

 

[BlestOne]

As I unwind and drive home from work, it is a good way to get into home/family mode… if I am having a stressful day, at lunch too, and when I am really jammed up… several times during the day.

 

[LilyM]

Every night after saying prayers and the Act of Contrition I try and review my day, and ask for forgiveness for what I have done, and for what I have not done. Then I say the rosary.

Admirable - it’s a good idea, however, to balance a review of one’s sins with a review of the good one has done with God’s help during the day, and thanking God for that too! Otherwise you tend to get a negatively skewed view of yourself.

 

[puzzleannie]

the daily examen, of not only recall of sins of commission and omission, but review of the day in general, fidelity in prayer and other duties, relationships, blessings, need for intercession etc.—this is the spiritual advice of Ignatius that most resonates for me, and adopted it on my first Jesuit directed retreat many years ago. It has certainly cured me of that “Oh I am basically a good person and I have no sins to confess” mentality.

 

[BlestOne]

the daily examen, of not only recall of sins of commission and omission, but review of the day in general, fidelity in prayer and other duties, relationships, blessings, need for intercession etc.—this is the spiritual advice of Ignatius that most resonates for me, and adopted it on my first Jesuit directed retreat many years ago. It has certainly cured me of that “Oh I am basically a good person and I have no sins to confess” mentality.

Amen PuzzleAnnie!!!

 

[LilyM]

the daily examen, of not only recall of sins of commission and omission, but review of the day in general, fidelity in prayer and other duties, relationships, blessings, need for intercession etc.—this is the spiritual advice of Ignatius that most resonates for me, and adopted it on my first Jesuit directed retreat many years ago. It has certainly cured me of that “Oh I am basically a good person and I have no sins to confess” mentality.

Absolutely, I do the same to the same effect

 

[Prague]

Admirable - it’s a good idea, however, to balance a review of one’s sins with a review of the good one has done with God’s help during the day, and thanking God for that too! Otherwise you tend to get a negatively skewed view of yourself.

Not to worry. Part of my thinking is also the positive side of my day. I am not a negative type of person. My grandmother always told us to never go to sleep without looking for at least one good thing we did or one good thing that happened during our day. No matter how very small that was.
Prague