Duties to MyselfDuties to Myself
1) Does my concern for what others think and say of me lead me to go along with the crowd even when my conscience tells me not to?
2) Have I sinned by eating too much? Drinking too much?
3) Do I accept and correct my mistakes, or try spread the blame to others?
4) Have I avoided occasions of sin in my reading, conversations, friendships?
5) Have I cheated at school? At work? Have I cheated my customers?
6) Can I honestly say I am not attached to any sin?
Duties to Others
7) When someone offends me, do I seek revenge? Give way to hatred?
8) Have I injured another's reputation by telling the truth about him without good reason? By lying about him? By innuendo?
9) Do I mock others? Belittle their efforts to do good?
10) Am I given to sulking when others do not follow my plans or suggestions?
11) Have I led my husband, wife, children or anyone else into sin, or into the occasion of sin?
12) Have I been harsh with my children? Too permissive rather than willing to spend the time and energy necessary to teach them virtue and keep them from sin?
13) Have I been respectful, obedient to my parents, teachers and others in authority?
14) Have I often been disagreeable or discourteous at home, work or school?
Duties to God
15) Do I remember to thank God for success when it comes, and to accept failures without bitterness?
16) Have I been guilty of lying for any reason?
17) Have I been late for Mass? Missed it completely without reason?
18) Do I often neglect my prayers through laziness or because I have something else I "have" to do?
19) Do I waste much time doing nothing?
20) When I have felt the urge to perform some good act, have I neglected this grace?
21) Have my words, actions, way of living made anyone think less of the Church?
- from the book Seven Roads to Hell and 'Ave Maria' magazine