Examination of Conscience for Religious Sisters
From Prayer-Book for Religious, compiled by F. X. Lasance, 1914 Tools
Interior Practice
Source
| Printed in | Prayer-Book for Religious |
|---|---|
| Imprint | New York, Cincinnati, Chicago, Benziger Brothers, 1914 |
| Scan | the Internet Archive copy |
| Approval | Nihil Obstat: REMY LAFORT, Censor Librorum (no date printed against this line) Imprimatur: + JOHN M. FARLEY, Archbishop of New York (no date printed against this line) Date line beneath both approvals: "New York, May 16, 1904." |
| Transcription | Transcribed from the scan of the 1914 edition. |
| Rights | Public domain in the United States. |
- Prayers for
- amendment of life, a good confession, the interior life, obedience, detachment, modesty, love of neighbour
- For
- religious
Noël Bellemare, King David in Prayer, leaf from a book of hours, about 1530–35. Cleveland Museum of Art.
CEASE not to withdraw from creatures until you find yourself alone with God.
Interior Occupation for the Days of Recollection.—Every month, if possible, devote half an hour to examining the state of your soul. Employ in this way the time of meditation, if you have no other moments at your disposal. Examine yourself particularly on these three essential points: 1st. Spiritual Exercises; 2d. The Holy Rule; 3d. The Predominant Failing.
1. SPIRITUAL EXERCISES.
1st. ON awaking, have you, by a fervent act of love, cast yourself into the Sacred Heart of Jesus?
2d. Have you been exact in reciting the customary prayers while dressing? In recalling to mind the subject of your meditation? In rejecting every idle thought?
3d. With what respect and diligence have you hastened to the chapel to begin your prayer?
4th. How do you prepare for meditation? How do you exercise the power of your soul during it? Do you try to awaken corresponding sentiments in your heart? Do you form practical and detailed resolutions upon the fault which you wish to extirpate, or the virtue which you have proposed to acquire? Do you foresee occasions of avoiding the one and practising the other? When you finish meditation do you take care to look back upon the manner in which you have performed it, and to choose a good thought on which you may dwell during the day?
5th. Besides the general intentions, do you propose to yourself some particular end when you assist at the holy Mass?
6th. Do you neglect the means proposed to make the remembrance of the presence of God easy for you during the day? Such as ejaculatory prayers, and examining yourself after every action?
7th. Do you make your examination according to the method prescribed, and with the intention of deriving benefits from it?
8th. How do you spend the time of the visit to the Blessed Sacrament?
9th. Do you honor the mysteries in saying your beads? Do you take care to form some particular intention?
10th. Do you make spiritual reading with attention?
11th. While undressing, do you call to mind the subject of the meditation prepared for the next day? Do you take care to say the prayers recommended? Do you reject all distractions? Do you retire to rest in the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and go to sleep occupied with some good thought?
12th. What fruit do you derive from confession? With what care do you prepare for it? Do you spend a sufficient time in recollection afterward?
13th. How do you prepare for holy communion on the previous evening and in the morning? How do you make your thanksgiving?
14th. Are you careful to direct your intentions for the indulgence?
2. THE HOLY RULE.
1st. WHAT is your conduct as to obedience? Do you endeavor to make it prompt, entire, and blind? Do you consider Jesus Christ in the person of your Superiors, Whose place they hold?
2d. Do you fulfil your office and your occupation with zeal, and according to the view of your Superior?
3d. Are you careful to ask the smallest permission?
4th. What are your dispositions with respect to poverty? Are you content to feel some of its effects? Do you practise it, as much as possible, in those things of which you have the use, and in the care of things entrusted to you?
5th. How do you observe the rules of modesty?
6th. Have you for all your Sisters a truly fraternal charity, that proves itself in thoughts, words, and deeds? Do you render willingly to your Sisters the service which they may ask of you?
7th. What is your exactness and punctuality to the sound of the bell; your fidelity in keeping silence, and, in a word, in the entire perfect observance of the Holy Rule?
8th. Observe the faults you have committed and make a special resolution on those points wherein you have found yourself most deficient.
3. PREDOMINANT FAULT.
Of whatever kind it may be, examine yourself on these four points:
1st. DO you, as far as possible, make this fault, or its opposite virtue, the subject of your particular examen?
2d. Are you constant and earnest in your efforts to overcome the difficulties which you meet with in this combat?
3d. Are you careful to humble yourself for your faults, and to give a faithful account of them?
4th. Are your faults as frequent as those of the previous month?
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