Thursday, April 7, 2016

Do you Examine Yourself for Sins of Omission?



The beliefs we hide because we fear being called old-fashioned…

The blasphemy or disrespectful joke we listen to complacently fearful of what people will think if we say something against it…

The complicit silence when we do not manifest or defend the Truth, for fear of the opinions of others…

The heresies we tolerate from the Modernist priests to avoid the embarrassment and discomfort due to what other people or the priest will say…

The prayers we omitted and that resulted in souls who did not change their lives and were condemned because nobody prayed for them, ignoring what Our Lady asked and warned in Fatima…

The Masses we did not order to be said and the prayers we omitted for our relatives and the souls in purgatory, in general, to help them to attain eternal happiness…

Turning a blind eye to the bad behavior of our children to avoid problems…

The admonishments we should have made but did not because we wanted to avoid the inconveniences…

The souls that we, being able to, did not breed for God, and that our selfishness disguised as “responsible fatherhood/motherhood”, suppressing our duty of fruitfulness…

The tears we saw streaming down someone’s face and did not wipe away because we did not want to get involved…

The sweater we did not take off to give to that poor beggar that was shivering from the cold, because we had paid a lot money for it…

The piece of bread we did not share, because no one gave it to us for free, justifying our behavior saying that we obtained it through our own efforts…

The fight that we did not prevent because we wanted to avoid getting involved in problems that did not concern us…

The wound we did not want to heal because it was not our fault…

The word of encouragement or good advice that we never gave to someone who was afflicted or in need because we “did not have time for it”…

The lack of patience in bearing the wrongs of others…

The time we did not give to someone who needed to talk, excusing us by saying that we “didn’t have any time to spare”…

The knowledge that we could have shared and that we selfishly kept only for ourselves…

The alms that we did not give - without having real basis for it – under the pretext of not wanting to contribute to begging and idleness…

The smile we did not give to those we crossed paths with because they were not related in any way to us…

The forgiveness we did not offer…

The apology that was silenced by our pride…

The letter that someone was waiting and that we never wrote…

The visit we did not pay to our elderly and lonely parents or relatives…

The poor religious instruction we gave our children (or just barely enough for their First Communion) and the delayed sacraments (which should be: Baptism, in case of danger of death or before one month of age; Confession – first – and First Communion – after – when they have reached the use of reason, etc.)…

The religious teaching that we did not give to our servants…

The abortion that could have been prevented if we had given our advice…

The visit we never paid to a sick person or prisoner…

The medicine we could have given to a gravely ill person, but did not give because it would have affected our economy…

The annual Confession and Communion that the Commandments of the Church oblige us to receive and that we omitted…

The mandatory days of fasting and abstinence that we did not observe…

The Sunday Masses that we did not assist to without a major reason…

The prayers we did not say to thank God (but did not forget to say when we asked Him for something!), the visits we did not pay to the Blessed Sacrament, the study of our Faith that we always postponed, the spiritual reading that we never made… and all the other things that we did not do because we did not have time, or were very, very exhausted…

In short … EVERYTHING that being able to do and should have done, did not do because of our laziness or selfishness…

Right-doing does not consist only in avoiding evil, all the guilty omissions we commit are also sins.

Therefore, in addition of avoiding evil we must do right.

What grief and sorrow for all the things we have omitted during our lives. Perhaps there are some omissions that can be mended… Others can no longer be remedied.

Let us ask God for forgiveness for all the omissions we have committed, and go to Confession to accuse those that involved grave matter, and correct everything that is still fixable.

The believer must really, positively, love God above everything else, and his neighbor, in the exact same way he loves himself. Therefore, do not forget to also examine yourself frequently for sins of omission (especially when making an examination of conscience, since it is not enough to examine ourselves according to the Commandments of God, of the Church and deadly sins). In this article, we have just named a few examples. Analyze your particular obligations according to your duties of state.

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