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By Dave Armstrong, National Catholic Register, November 25, 2024
Dave Armstrong Dave Armstrong is a full-time Catholic author and apologist, who has been actively proclaiming and defending Christianity since 1981. He was received into the Catholic Church in 1991. His website/blog, Biblical Evidence for Catholicism, has been online since March 1997. He also maintains a popular Facebook page. Dave has been happily married to his wife Judy since October 1984. They have three sons and a daughter (all homeschooled) and reside in southeast Michigan.
The Catholic practice of examination of conscience is the biblical model of discipleship.
It’s always good to define our terms. In his Modern Catholic Dictionary, Servant of God John Hardon provided a good definition of “Examination of Conscience”:
Reflection in God’s presence on one’s state of soul, e.g., in preparation for the sacrament of penance.
He also defined “General Examen” this way:
Prayerful daily periodic examination of one’s conscience to determine what faults have been committed, which call for repentance, and what good actions were performed, for which God should be thanked.
