An Examination of Conscience Inspired by the Holy Spirit.
Ask the Holy Spirit to inspire you to make your next confessions honest, deeply personal, and incredibly meaningful.
Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. My last confession was a week and a half ago.
My Most Loving, Faithful, Trustworthy, Compassionate, and
Generous God,
Just as I request that You visit and spend time with me and
teach me new things, You have requested that I come to You in
return. And so here I am, present to love
you, honor Your majesty , thank You for Your goodness, and ask for Your pardon for the countless times
that I have offended You in the past week and a half.
I apologize for my many crimes against Your love, which I
committed so quickly after Your promise to lavish us with so many graces. I apologize to You mostly for my impatience,
lack of humility, disobedience, attachment to things of the world, for the
times I have complained instead of being grateful for everything, and for my
self-centered nature. I apologize as
well for the times I failed to attend to the needs of my brothers and
sisters.
What an incredible series of events that could have seemed
ordinary except for Your astonishing and
enlightening inspirations on Saturday. I
was impatient and judgmental with that young lady on the road who was looking
down at the phone in her hand, but thankfully realized the errors of my ways quickly
and had the good sense to apologize to You.
But then immediately afterwards, when You told me to offer for her all I
had suffered that night and morning, I
had the audacity to respond immediately, “All of it?”
Lord, thank You for persisting with me. I want to be an instrument of Your incredible
generosity, but still lack the self mastery and knowledge to excel at it. I desire very much to be Your
mirror, Your strong Catholic witness, Your messenger, and an example of Your
unfathomable love in a world that fails to recognize even the Light of the
World in the darkness.
How thoughtless I am so many times, Lord! And yet it is through my faults that You draw
me into even closer union with You, the King of my heart, who orders all things
to keep me close.
Thank You for keeping me close to You!
It is my great desire that there be no distance between
us. I ask that You transform my life
into a tremendous testimony of Your greatness.
I ask that You transform my nature, so that I am always kind, caring, patient,
gentle, humble, and loving like You.
Make me slow to anger, quick to help, and able to withstand the assaults
of the enemy. Please defend my time alone with You and with
my family, and do not allow my limitations to adversely affect my family.
Please save the dying, convert sinners including everyone in
the abortion industry, and release the holy souls
in purgatory, especially the most forgotten soul, and my loved one if she is
there. Thank You for sending her to
comfort me during times of trial and for allowing her to show me how incredibly
beautiful, and valuable, suffering is.
And what is it I can do for You, my sweet and gentle
Jesus? I promise to give You more of my
love as You have requested. I
promise to always seek to do Your will;
please help me with this, for my soul often feels so pulled back and
forth between the forces of good and evil, and I have so many responsibilities, not that I’m complaining. I just want to be a good messenger for
You.
I am sorry that I did not write to the people You requested. Please help me
to differentiate Your voice from my own and from that of the enemy so that I
may always cooperate with Your grace. Thank
You for allowing me to share in Your suffering that cold Friday morning as You
were scourged at the pillar in my place.
Thank You for showing me the price of sin as You willingly accepted the blows to Your
sacred face in my place. How many times
I have offended You so cavalierly, so proudly, by what I have said. You remind me to be very
careful when choosing my words and I thank You for this incredible favor. Whatever You determine is best for me,
Lord. I trust in You, and thank You for
Your unfathomable love and compassion.
My Lord and my God, my love, my life, my all, I love You and
give myself entirely to You, and promise to love and honor You all the days of
my life.
Now, are you still tempted to think that Catholicism is boring, and that going to confession doesn't mean anything?
Receive the Sacrament of Christ's Peace often, and do not delay! God is so in love with you.
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