Examine your conscience, sit at your mind’s judgment seat, don’t spare yourself, examine yourself, let your heart’s marrow speak to you (loquatur tibi medulla cordis). (EP 101[102], 10; PL 37, 1301)

Rev. Joseph A. Komonchak, professor emeritus of the School of Theology and Religious Studies at the Catholic University of America, is a retired priest of the Archdiocese of New York.

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