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EGIN by  examining  yourself  on  your  last  confession:  Whether  a  grievous  sin  was  forgotten through want  of  proper  examination,  or  concealed or disguised  through  shame. Whether you  confessed without a  true  sorrow  and  a  firm  purpose  of  amendment. Whether you  have  repaired  evil  done  to  your neighbor. Whether the  penance  was  performed  without voluntary  distractions. Whether you  have  neglected your  confessor's  counsel,  and  fallen  at  once into habitual  sins.

Then examine  yourself  on  the  Ten  Commandments; the Commandments  of  the  Church;  the  Seven  Capital Sins; the  duties  of  your  state  of  life;  and  your  ruling passion. Calmly recall  the  different  occasions  of  sin which have  fallen  in  your  way,  or  to  which  your  state and condition  in  life  expose  you;  the  places  you  have frequented; the  persons  with  whom  you  have  associated. Do not  neglect  to  consider  the  circumstances which alter  the  grievousness  of  the  sin,  nor  the  various ways  in  which  we  become  accessory  to  the  sins of others.

I. I AM  the  Lord,  thy  God,  Who  brought  thee  out of the  land  of  Egypt,  and  out  of  the  house  of bondage. Thou shaft  not  have  strange  gods  before Me. Thou shaft  not  make  to  thyself  a  graven  thing, nor the  likeness  of  any  thing  that  is  in  heaven  above, or in  the  earth  beneath,  nor  of  those  things  that  are  in the  waters  under  the  earth. Thou shalt  not  adore them, nor  serve  them.