Examination of Conscience on Purity of Heart
From Meditations on the Sacred Heart, by Joseph McDonnell, 1913 Tools
POINTS FOR SELF-EXAMINATION
Source
| Printed in | Meditations on the Sacred Heart |
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| Imprint | New York, Cincinnati, Chicago, Benziger Brothers (printers to the Holy Apostolic See; publishers of Benziger's Magazine), 1913 |
| Scan | the Internet Archive copy |
| Approval | Nihil Obstat: H. Sebastianus Bowden, Censor Deputatus (no date printed against the nihil obstat) Imprimatur: Edm. Can. Surmont, Vicarius Generalis; date line printed below both approvals: "Westmonasterii, Die 3 Februarii, 1913" |
| Transcription | Transcribed from the scan of the 1913 edition. |
| Rights | Public domain in the United States. |
- Prayers for
- purity, avoiding sin, amendment of life, contrition, a good confession
Noël Bellemare, King David in Prayer, leaf from a book of hours, about 1530–35. Cleveland Museum of Art.
On Purity of Heart.
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Do I set before me in each confession some special fault to overcome until my next confession?
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Do I make my daily examination of conscience faithfully and fruitfully, trying to discover my faults, to be sorry for them, to amend them? Do I choose out one special fault to which I am most subject, and examine myself on it in particular?
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Do I guard my senses? They are the windows of the soul through which death enters.
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Am I careful about my reading? my conversation? the companions I select? the places I frequent? Are any of these things occasions of sin to me?
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Do I avoid idleness, which is the mother of many faults?
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Do I use the two great helps to purity of heart: devotion and temperance?
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Do I reject dangerous thoughts promptly, prayerfully, perseveringly? They are so many sparks from hell fire, which must be shaken off as we would shake off a burning spark from the grate.
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Do I, in short, strive to keep my soul at all times a fitting receptacle for the Blessed Eucharist, by nourishing it with holy thoughts, prayer, and pious reading?
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