g PRUDENS SEXDECIM LINGUARUM CONFESSARIUS. Anglice. — Confession in English. A) — Travellers in foreign countries, who have a copy of this book, will be able to go to any Confessor what- soever, even to one who does not know their language ; they should show him page 4, give him the enclosed card, and then proceed as is set down for the penitent. B) — To the penitent : Read through to yourself each question : then put your finger on the number of each question in turn and say either Yes or No: if it is «yes », let me know how often you have committed the sin; this you can do by holding up your fingers (or by pointing out some number printed further down on this page’) adding a day, @ week, a month, or @ year. Be of good courage; it will be quite easy by God’s grace. 1. — How long is it since your last confession? a) How many weeks? (months? years?) — b) Is it about a year? — ce) Did you go to your duties last Easter? 2. — Have you missed your morning or evening prayers? — Do you usually leave them out? — Have you said them carelessly? 3. — Have you used blasphemous words? — Have you the habit of doing this? 4. — Have you missed mass on Sundays through your own fault? — Have you been very late for mass? — Have you been inattentive and not said prayers during mass? &. — Have you done servile work on Sunday without necessity? 6. — What is your state in life? — Single? Married? A widower (or widow)? ‘7. — Do you live with your parents? — Or alone? — Or with your wife (or husband)? — [Or as a servant with your master? Is he a catholic?] 4, Once (semel), twice (bis}, three times (3), four t. (4), five t. (8), six t. (6), Seven t. (7), eight t. (8), nine t. (9), ten t. (40), fifteen t. (48), twenty t. (20), thirty t. (30), fifty t. (50), a hundred t. (100), a thousand t. (1000). About (circiter) i 6-7-8-9-10-15 -20-30-50- 100-1000.ANGLICE. — ENGLISH. 9 8. — Have you been disobedient to your parents? — Have you been disrespectful to them? — To your supe- riors? 9. — Have you had bad thoughts? — Did you take pleasure in them? — Did you encourage them by bad reading? — By pictures? — Or by improper curiosity? 10. —Have you listened to immoral talk? — Willingly? — Did you take part in this conversation? 44. — Have you begun or taken part in games that were immodest? — Did you mean to do wrong? — Was it before others? 12. — Have you committed immodest actions? — Alone? — a) With others? — Did you touch them? — b) Directly? — With your hands? — c) In any other way? — Did you complete the sin? — d) Was the person married? —e) With different persons? — f) With one unengaged — With boys? 13. — Is this the first time you confess this sin? — Has it been a custom with you for a long time? — a) Did you know it ought to have been confessed? — b) Have you been to Holy Communion in this state? — ec) During several years? (months? weeks? days?) — d) How often a year? (month? — week?) 14. — Have you an occasion of committing this sin easily? — a) Do they who sin with you live in the same house with you? — b) They are not members of your own family, are they? — ce) Then you can separate from them? 15. — If you can leave them, you must. — Do you promise? — As soon as you can? — a) If you cannot leave them, then you must take care that you are never alone with one of them. — b) Are you willing and will you promise to do this? 16. — Have you taken or kept or damaged what belon- ged to someone else? — Was the damage great enough to make a mortal sin? — Have you neglected the property of others which has been entrusted to you? 17. — Have you waited a long time before paying your A day, — a week, — a month, — a year.10 PRUDENS SEXDECIM LINGUARUM CONFESSARIUS. debts? — a) Have you paid servants their proper wages? —b) Have you defrauded others in the matter of goods or of their price? — ¢) Are you ready to restore or make good the loss as soon as you can? 18. — Have you told lies? — Are you given to exag- geration? 19. — Have you willingly told or listened to evil about your neighbour? — a) Was it false? —- b) Did you damage his character or cause him pain by this? — c) Was it before several? 20. — Have you a hatred of anyone? — a) of friends or relations? — b) Have you wished harm to others? — c) Have you taken pleasure in their misfortunes? 21. — Have you shown impatience? — or anger? — a) Have you struck anyone? — b) or wounded him? — ce) or killed him? 22. — Did you eat meat on days of abstinence without necessity? — Did you break the law of fasting without a sufficient reason? 23. — Did you drink too much? — Till you were thor- oughly drunk? — Have you sinned by eating too much? 24. — Have you been lazy? — Did you neglect the work you are paid for? 25. — Were you proud, in thought? word? deed? — Against God's authority? — Against the Church and faith? 26. — Did you treat your subjects harshly or despise them? — Did you give too much money and care for extravagance in clothes? and personal adornment? 27. — Did you prolong conversation or reading even after you had become aware they were dangerous to your faith? — Have you given your name or patronage to societies condemned by the Church, or to impious societies, or to bad periodicals? 28. — Have you voted for non-christians? — who attack the Church? 29. — Have you children? — How many? — a) Do you send them to a catholic school? — b) You are under Greiter) i 6-'7-8-9-10- 15-20 -30-50- 100-1000.