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any grave sin in a Church, or profaning it by common business, such as buying or selling, or by misbehaviour, stealing anything belonging to God, profanation of vessels or ornaments of a Church by putting them to other uses, reading the Bible like any other book, misuse of Holy Scripture, unworthy reception of sacraments, keeping back some sin in confession, going to Communion to keep up appearances, irreverent curiosity, listening to hear another's confession, or revealing it. Using God's name lightly, swearing falsely, rashly, unjustly, or unnecessarily, or to that of which you are doubtful, rash vows, breaking a lawful vow, or deferring to perform it, keeping wicked vows, cursing persons or things, in passion or before others, blasphemous conversation, laughing at it, listening to it without trying to stop it, talking with levity about holy things or persons, irreverence in Church.

Simony.-Administering spiritual benefits for the sake of money or any other temporal reward.

SINS OF SCANDAL.

Disobeying God through fear of offending man, associating with persons of known bad character, attending immoral or profane plays or amusements, or plays which excite evil thoughts. masquerades, dances which you know to be

dangerous, making images for heathen worship, making, selling, or helping to sell bad books or pictures, not destroying them if you have the opportunity.

SINS AGAINST THE LAWS OF THE CHURCH.

Servile work on Sundays without necessity, or causing others to do it, wasting Sundays, not attending Church, allowing those under your care to neglect Sundays, making Good Friday a day of recreation, not keeping the fast days and abstinence days, not observing the feasts of the Church, not communicating three times in the year, communicating after food, marriage at forbidden times, not observing reverent and Catholic customs, e.g., to bow at the name of Jesus, to genuflect before the Blessed Sacrament, to use the sign of the Cross.

DISOBEDIENCE.

Not honouring the Bishops and clergy, not obeying their lawful commands, not contributing to their support, not praying for them, ridiculing them, breaking the rules of any confraternity or guild, opposing unlawfully the authorities of the country, taking part in any riot or sedition, belonging to an illegal society, stirring up the passions of classes.

SINS OF MARRIED PEOPLE.

Marrying from unworthy motives, without the service of the Church, giving cause for jealousy, being jealous without cause, scandalizing others by freedom of manners, absent from each other without just cause and permission, any improper actions, want of kindness and cheerfulness.

OF HUSBANDS.

Tyranny or cruelty, neglect, coldness or want of confidence, calling the wife bad names, hindering her from religious duties, not preventing her from doing wrong.

OF WIVES.

Irritating or taunting your husband, speaking sharply, disobedience to lawful commands, not taking care of his household, extravagance, contracting debts without his permission, spending money contrary to his wishes, making home disagreeable, talking of his faults, talking of his business to others.

SINS OF PARENTS.

When pregnant not being careful to avoid injuring the child, omitting to suckle a child without just cause, not providing a good nurse for it, not getting it baptized as soon as possible, not taking

care to avoid injuring it when sleeping with it, wasting on yourself the money which ought to have been spent on it, sending children to beg, not instructing them in religion and teaching them to love God, not accustoming them to attend Church, not leading them to fulfil their vows of baptism, not keeping them from bad company, leaving them to servants whom you do not know to be good, not correcting them, punishing them immoderately, setting them a bad example, not putting them under a good teacher, allowing them to be under heretical teaching or to attend dissenting places of worship, not providing them with an honest livelihood, treating them unkindly, provoking them, telling their secret faults without just cause, praising them foolishly, not seeing that they are prepared properly for Confirmation and Holy Communion, not carefully watching over the innocence of children as they grow up, letting them be out late at night, allowing foolish novels or bad books in your house, hindering their vocation to the priesthood or to the religious life, forcing them into a profession or business which they are unsuited for, hindering their marriage without just cause or forcing them to marry against their wishes, using unfair means to get them married.

SINS OF CHILDREN.

Despising, hating or wishing evil to their parents, wishing them dead, provoking them, dis

obeying their lawful commands, making them unhappy, want of reverence, ingratitude, laughing at or vexing or slandering teachers, wasting their parents' property, desiring an undue share of it, discontent with their home, making known domestic matters or secrets, making engagements and promising marriage without parents' knowledge, being ashamed of parents, not visiting them, letting them want, letting them die without a priest, not praying for their souls.

SINS OF YOUNG WOMEN.

Dressing beyond their station, going to Church unsuitably dressed, trying to attract admiration, giving too much time and thoughts to dress, following fashions which are not consistent with modesty, dressing so as to attract the attention of men, seeking much the society and conversation of men, forwardness, pertness, sauciness, flirting, receiving presents from men who make love but do not intend marriage, letting them talk with freedom, hinting at knowledge of improper subjects, dissipation, falseness in dress or ornament, affecting piety to be admired, giddiness, frivolity, untidiness, lazi

ness.

OF MASTERS AND MISTRESSES AND EMPLOYERS.

Not treating servants kindly, not instructing

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