Private preparation
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Private review
Return to your saved examination report.
Open the report section to review marked prompts and notes saved only on this device. If you are unsure how to confess something, bring it simply and honestly to a priest.
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Guided Examination of Conscience
Prepare for Confession with truth and peace.
Choose a path, read each prompt prayerfully, mark what you may need to bring to Confession, and keep private notes only in this browser.
Paths
Choose a path through the examination.
Ten Commandments
Review love of God and neighbor through the commandments, precepts of the Church, and interior dispositions.
Open pathBeatitudesBeatitudes
A Gospel examination through humility, mercy, purity, peace, courage, and hunger for holiness.
Open pathState of lifeState of Life
Examine your vocation, duties, relationships, and present season of life.
Open pathVirtues and vicesVirtues and Vices
Review the seven deadly sins, opposing virtues, patterns of temptation, and growth in grace.
Open pathRelationships and dutiesRelationships and Duties
Review family, friendship, duties, promises, justice, speech, conflict, authority, digital life, and community.
Open pathPrayer and sacramental lifePrayer and Sacramental Life
Review prayer, Sunday Mass, Eucharist, Confession, sacramental identity, reverence, devotions, and trust.
Open pathWorks of MercyWorks of Mercy
Review the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy as concrete expressions of Christian charity.
Open pathSaved report
Confession Companion Report
This report gathers only the prompts you mark and the notes you write on this device. If nothing is saved yet, begin a path above and return here when you are ready.
Private report actions
Open a clean page for intentional printing or copying.
Open a clean page for intentional printing or copying. The report stays on this device.
Pastoral note
If you are unsure how to confess something, speak simply and honestly with a priest. This report remains only on this device.
Ten Commandments
Ten Commandments
No report is saved for this path yet. Begin the examination when you are ready, and any marked prompts or notes will appear here on this device.
Beatitudes
Beatitudes
No report is saved for this path yet. Begin the examination when you are ready, and any marked prompts or notes will appear here on this device.
State of life
State of Life
No report is saved for this path yet. Begin the examination when you are ready, and any marked prompts or notes will appear here on this device.
Virtues and vices
Virtues and Vices
No report is saved for this path yet. Begin the examination when you are ready, and any marked prompts or notes will appear here on this device.
Relationships and duties
Relationships and Duties
No report is saved for this path yet. Begin the examination when you are ready, and any marked prompts or notes will appear here on this device.
Prayer and sacramental life
Prayer and Sacramental Life
No report is saved for this path yet. Begin the examination when you are ready, and any marked prompts or notes will appear here on this device.
Works of Mercy
Works of Mercy
No report is saved for this path yet. Begin the examination when you are ready, and any marked prompts or notes will appear here on this device.
Confess honestly to a priest, and ask for guidance when you are unsure. This guide does not determine mortal or venial sin.
Act of Contrition
O my God, I am heartily sorry for having offended You. I detest all my sins because I dread the loss of Heaven and the pains of Hell; but most of all because they offend You, my God, who are all-good and deserving of all my love. I firmly resolve, with the help of Your grace, to confess my sins, to do penance, and to amend my life. Amen.
Confession preparation
Prepare steadily, without turning inward alone.
Use the guided examination when you need clarity, then return to daily prayer so repentance stays joined to trust in mercy.
Detachment from sin
Prepare the Heart, Not Only the Memory
An examination of conscience can help you name sin honestly, but grace also invites the heart to reject sin more deeply. If you want help reflecting on detachment from sin without anxious self-measurement, use the guide below.
Penitential prayer
Pray Psalm 51 or Begin the Seven Psalms
Before or after your examination, pray Psalm 51 or begin the Seven Penitential Psalms to ask for contrition, mercy, and a clean heart.