The First Commandment: “I am the Lord your God. You shall not have strange gods before Me.”

• Have I really loved God above all things or have I put others things - work, money, drugs, TV, fame, pleasure, other people - above Him?
• Have I made time for God each day in prayer?
• Have I denied my faith in God or endangered it by practices of the occult or through reading or programs that are opposed to faith and morals?
• Am I whole-hearted in accepting and following God's teaching or do I only pick and choose the convenient part of His meesage? Have I tried to learn and understand my faith better?
• Have I denied my faith before others? Have I been willing to affirm, defend and practice ym faith in puublic and not just in private?
• Did I despair of or presume on God's mercy?

 
The Second Commandment: “You shall not take the Name of the Lord your God in vain.”

• Do I love and have revernce for God's Name?
• Have I offended God by blasphemy, cursing, or treating his name carelessly?
• Do I try my best to fulfill the promises and resolutions that I have mande toward God, especially those of my Baptism and Confirmation?
• Have I shown disrespect for the Blssed Virgin Mary, the saints of the Church, holy things or holy things or holy people?

 
The Third Commandment: “Remember to keep holy the Sabbath Day.

• Did I miss Mass on Sunday or a Holy Day of of Obligation through my own fault?
• Have I fully, consciously and actively participatied in Holy Mass or just gone through the motions?
• Have I given my full attention to the Word of God or have I given in easily to distractions?
• Have I arrived late at Mass due to carelessness?
• Have I left early without a serious reason?
• Have I lept the Eucharsitic fast before Holy Mass?
• Have I recieved Holy Communions in a state of mortal sin?
• Did I do work on Sunday that was not necessary?
• Have I used Sunday as part of the "weekend" or as a day for acts of love toward God, my family & those in need?

 
The Fourth Commandment: "Honor your father and your mother."

• Did I neglect my duties to my husband, wife, children, parents, or siblings?
• Have I fealed to be grateful for the sacrifices my parents have made for me?
• Have I disrespected my family members, treated them with scant affection, or reacted proudly when correct by them?
• Did I cause tension and fights with my family?
• Have I cared for my aged and infirm relatives?
• Have I provided for the Chirstina educationof my children through Catholic school or religious instruction? Do I insprie them by my vitur or scandalize them by my failings?
• When I have disciplined my children, dod I do so with charity and prudence?
• Have I encouraged my children to pray about why God created them, and whether God may be calling them to the priesthood or religious life?

 
The Fifth Commandment: "You shall not kill."

• Did I kill or thy to physically harm someone?
• Did I attempt suicide, or entertain throughts of taking my life?
• Did I have an aboration, or encouage or help someone else to have one? Have I participated  in the practice of abortion through my silence, financial support for persons or organizations that promote it , or voting without a very serious reason for cnadidates who support it?
• Have I taken part in, or supported, so-called "mercy killing" (euthanasia)? 
• Have I abused my children or others in any way?
• Have I mutilated or harmed my body?
• Have I borne hatred or withheld forgiveness?
• Have I been reckless behind the whee so as to put my and others' lives in danger?
• Have I neglected my health?
• Ddid I give a bad example through drug abuse, drinking alcohol to excess, fighting, or quarreling?
• Have I easily gotten angry or lost my temper?

 
The Sixth and Ninth Commandments: "You shall not commit adultery." "You shall not covet your neighbor's wife."

• Have I remembered that my body is a temple of the Holy Spirit?
• Did I willfully entertain impure thoughts or desired?
• Did I deliberately look at impure TV program, computer site, videos, pictures, or movies?
• Did I commit impure acts with myself or with others through adultery, fornication, or homosexual activity?
• Have I been faithful to my husband or wife in my heart and in my conduct with others?
• Have I sinned through the use of contraception, contraceptive sterilization, or in-vitro fertilization?
• Have I touched or kissed another person in a lustful way?
• Have I treated others, in my deeds or thoughts, as objects?
• Have I been an occasion of sin for others by acting or dressing immodestly?
• Am I married according to the laws of the Church?
• Did I advise or encourage anyone to marry outside the Church? 

The Seventh and Tenth Commandments: "You shall not steal." "You shall not covet your neighbor's goods."

• Have I greedy or envious?
• Have I made acquiring material possessions the focus of my life? Am I inordinateyl attached to the things of this world?
• Did I steal, cheat,, help or encouragle others to steal or to keep stolen goods? Did I recieve stolen goods? Have I reurned or made restitutions for things I have stolen?
• Did I damage others' property without achnowledging ot and repairing it?
• Have I paid ym debts or have I played the system so as to avoid fufilling my obligations?
• Have I cheated my company? Have I given a full day's work or a full day's pay? Have I paid a fair wage to anone who works for me? Have I been faithful to my promises and contracts? Have I given or accepted bribes?
• Have I allowed work to get in the way of my obligations to God or to my family?
• Do I generously share my goods with the needs?
• Am I generous to the work of the Church? So I share my time, talents, and treasures in the apostolic and charitable works of the Church and in the life od my parish?

 
The Eighth Commandment: "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor."

• Did I lie? Have my lies caused spiritual or material harm to others?
• Have I told lies about anybody (calumny)?
• Have I enjured others by revealing true hidden faults?
• Did I commit perjury? Have I been guilty of refusing to testify to the innocence of anothers hecause of fear or selfishness?
• Have I engaged the spread of scandal?
• Am I guilty of any type of fraud?
• Did I insult or tease others with the intention of hurting them?
• Have I falsely flattered others?
• Have I made rash judgements about others?
• Did I fail to keep sectet what should be confidential?