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17. Have I sworn to God that I would keep
a certain promise or perform a certain work when I did not intend to do so at all?

18. Have I deliberately called upon God to witness the truth of a lie that I told someone in
private life?

19. Have I sworn to God that I would do something gravely unjust, like defrauding a neighbor,
taking revenge, hurting someone?

20. Have I deliberately cursed a human being, which means seriously wishing or asking that God
condemn his soul to hell or visit some other grave misfortune upon him?

21. Have I twisted the words of Christ or of the Bible into an obscene or evil form?

22. Have I, as a parent or guardian, blasphemed or cursed or sworn falsely before my children or
even to my children?

23. Have I encouraged others to commit any of the above sins?

II. VENIAL SINS

1. Have I used the name of "God" or "Christ" or "Jesus" or "Lord" as a byword, or as an
expression of impatience, or in jest?

2. Have I spoken, not maliciously, but profanely and irreverently, of any holy thing?

3. Have I sworn, i.e., called· upon God to witness the truth of what I was saying, when there was
no serious reason for so doing, when the matter was trivial or foolish, even though I told no lie?

4. Have I used the language of cursing against inanimate things, or against animals,
against human beings even though I did really wish the damnation of these last?

5. Have I permitted myself to acquire the
habit of using God's name profanely, or of swearing or cursing almost without realization of what
I was saying?

6. Have I laughed at others' profane use of God's name or other irreverent speech, as if I thought
it amusing and wanted them to continue?

7. Have I neglected to correct a child subject to me, when the child used irreverent or profane
language?

8. Have I permitted my children to go about with companions who made frequent use of profanity?

9. Have I repeated the profanity of others as something amusing and clever?

III. HELPS AND COUNSELS

1. Have I bowed my head when uttering or hearing the name "Jesus"?

2. Have I said an interior act of adoration, praise, or love, when genuflecting before the Blessed
Sacrament?

3. Have I ever offered up an act of reparation to God for the many irreverence's in speech
committed throughout the world?

4. When hearing someone abusing God's name, have I tried to atone for it by a short prayer in my
heart?

5. Have I joined in reciting the divine praises at the end of Benediction of the Blessed
Sacrament, to atone for profane speech?

 6. (FOR MEN) Have I joined the Holy Name or Society, taken the pledge against bad not
 language and honestly tried to keep it?

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