1. Have you been attached to material things and worldly goods?
2. Have you been stingy and a lover of money?
3. Have you been greedy?
4. Have you been a spendthrift? Your surplus belongs to the poor?
5. Have you been conceited?
6. Perhaps you like to show off your clothes, your wealth, your success
or boast of your accomplishments?
7. Perhaps you crave admiration and adulation from the people around
you?
8. Do you accept praise with pleasure, wanting others to flatter you
and say that there is no one like you?
9. Do you get upset when someone points out your mistakes and do you
get hurt when you get reprimanded or corrected by your superiors?
10. Perhaps you are stubborn, obstinate, egotistical, self-proud and
self-centered? Pay attention to these sins because it is difficult to
rid of them.
11. Do you play cards - even though you may not use money - with people
in your home or with relatives looking to "kill time?"
12. Have you polluted your body and soul with carnal sins?
13. Do you watch filthy programs on television or at the movies?
14. Have you been reading obscene books and magazines?
15. Have you ever considered suicide?
16. Have you ever been gluttonous?
17. Have you been lazy, insolent and negligent?
18. Have you been using obscene, insulting, or improper words, for the
sake of being comical or to insult and humiliate another person?
19. Do you have a spirit of self denial?
20. Do you expel from your mind any bad thoughts that come to pollute
your head?
21. Do you control your eyes so that they don't curiously examine provocative
pictures or people?
22. Do you control what goes into your ears?
23. Do you dress indecently? If you are a woman, have you been wearing
men's clothing or provocative clothing and been causing scandal by your
appearance, and most importantly entering holy places in such a manner?
If you are a man do you have a frantic appearance? Do you despoil your
body with outlandish decorations and tattoos?
24. Perhaps you take part in frantic or sinful dancing? Do you sing
or listen to immoral songs?
25. Perhaps you drink to excess or take drugs?
26. Have you been smoking cigarettes? Smoking destroys a person's valuable
health and happens to be a sinful waste of money.