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steal. - Stealing a large amount of money or a valuable item - Willfully destroying or defacing another’s property - Stealing something consecrated to God or from a holy place - Buying, selling, receiving or concealing items known to be stolen - Willful failure to make restitution - Excessive gambling - Defrauding workers of their wages - Serious failure to fulfill work requirements - Padding expense or per diem accounts - Taking advantage of the poor, simple, inexperienced or less fortunate - Denying help to the poor, needy or destitute when able to help them easily - Defrauding creditors - Bribery or taking bribes - Blackmail - Fraud or embezzlement - Price fixing - Tax evasion - Forgery - Excessive waste or expense - Violating copyrights - Pirating computer software - Slavery - Serious cruelty to animals 8. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. - False witness (not under oath) or perjury (under oath) -Telling large or premeditated lies - Serious gossip, detraction (revealing the faults of another without serious reason), or calumny (harming the reputation of another by falsities) - Violation of a confidence without good reason - Being an accomplice to another’s grave sin 9. You shall not desire your neighbor’s wife. - Viewing pornography in books, magazines, movies, the internet, etc. - Reading sexually explicit materials - Dwelling on impure thoughts or fantasies for the purpose of arousal - Willfully lusting after another 10. You shall not desire your neighbor’s goods. - Serious and willful greed or avarice - Intention to steal or destroy the goods of another Venial Sins and Imperfections* * Imperfections are not sins so they do not need to be confessed. No distinction is made on this sheet between venial sins and imperfections because it is not always easy to make the distinction. Some things are imperfections because they are very small, other things are imperfections because they are dispositions of the soul and not willful actions or failures, still others because they are habitual. 1. I am the Lord your God. You shall not have strange gods before me. - Failure to pray on a daily basis - Not trying to love God with my whole mind, heart, soul and strength - Trying to control things rather than seek God’s will - Entertaining doubts against the Faith - Failing to seek out or learn the teachings of the Church - Indifference or ingratitude to God - Lukewarmness in the relationship with God - Not trying to grow spiritually; being content with mediocrity - Acedia (spiritual sloth) - Putting other things or people before God, e.g., TV, radio, sports, hobbies, etc. - Attachment to human respect or affection, i.e., caring more about what others think than what God thinks in order to fit in or be liked - Not trusting God - Failure to fulfill the duties of one’s state in life - Playing Dungeons and Dragons or similar games - Tempting God - Being angry at God - Embarrassment of being Catholic - Failure to defend the Church when ridiculed - Failure to support the work of the Church monetarily and/or with time and ability - Not taking part in the work of evangelization - Being willfully distracted at Mass or in prayer - Putting off confession needlessly - Failing to accept or offer up suffering - Refusing or denying the mercy of God - Not trying to practice recollection or the frequent remembrance of God’s presence - Failure to pray when tempted - Failure to examine one’s conscience daily - Giving into depression, self pity or self deprecating thoughts 2. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain. - Using the Lord’s name lightly, in surprise or in anger (habitual, not thinking) - Cursing thoughtlessly - Using the names of Mary, a Saint, the Pope or other sacred persons irreverently - Using vulgar or inappropriate language - Telling bad jokes about sacred persons or objects - Speaking badly of the Church - Inappropriate or irreverent use of Scripture 3. Remember to keep holy the Lord’s Day. - Doing unnecessary work on Sunday - Failing to keep Sunday as a day for family and recreation - Failing to spend extra time on Sunday in prayer and study of the Faith - Allowing sports or other schedules to dictate the Sunday schedule - Being irreverent in church - Not paying attention or participating at Mass - Coming late to Mass or leaving early without a serious reason - Desecrating the day by sinful amusements, bad company, inappropriate entertainment, etc. 4. Honor your father and mother. - Fighting with siblings - Disobedience to parents or authorities - Failure to give proper respect to parents or those in authority - Treating those under one’s authority disrespectfully - Failure to respect the dignity of children - Speaking badly about parents - Speaking badly about children - Speaking badly about one’s spouse - Neglecting duties toward spouse or children - Failing to give good example to one’s family - Not trying to cultivate peace in the family - Taking one’s spouse for granted - Making fun of or failing to help the elderly or handicapped - Not praying for those entrusted to your care - Failing to pray for those in authority over you, e.g., parents, teachers, employers, government officials, etc. - Failure to teach children adequately about God and the spiritual life - Lack of gratitude toward parents - Nagging spouse or children - Treating adult children like minors - Meddling in the affairs of married children - Too lax with rules, boundaries and discipline - Too strict with rules, boundaries and discipline - Breaking just civil laws without serious reason - Being ashamed of or embarrassed about parents continue page 1,2,3 |
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