First Commandment
First Commandment
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Have I neglected prayer for days at a time?
CCC 2098Add a note
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That was the first question of a real Catholic examination of conscience, one of 66, each with its Catechism citation. Your answer stayed on this page. In the app, everything stays on your phone.
All 66 carry their citation, and the depth is yours to choose: Quick takes two minutes, Deep takes twenty, Pre-Confession is built for the Saturday line. The questions fit your state of life, whether single, married, a parent, or religious.
CCC 2113 · First CommandmentThe Church asks for kind and number, to the best of your ability. Answer Yes on grave matter and Confess pauses for an honest estimate. The count stops at 10+ so an old habit never demands a number you cannot know.
CCC 2181 · Third CommandmentYes, No, Unsure, and Ask, which sets a question aside for the priest himself. Add a private note to any of them. Notes are encrypted with everything else.
CCC 2840 · Fifth CommandmentYour confession is in order before you reach the church door: mortal and venial, kind and number, the questions you saved for the priest. In-Confession mode walks in with you and deletes itself on the way out.
Have I neglected prayer for days at a time?
CCC 2098Have I put material things, career, or status ahead of God?
CCC 2113Have I missed Mass on Sunday or a holy day of obligation without serious reason?
M CCC 2181Have I refused to forgive someone who has wronged me?
CCC 2840Go ahead and answer honestly. It never leaves this page.
The Confession Guide answers what everyone quietly wonders. What do I say when I walk in? What if I forget something? What if it has been years? When your turn comes, In-Confession mode hands you a dark, full-screen, line-by-line script for the moment itself.
When you walk out, your list deletes itself.
Really. Switch to another tab or another app, then come back. Watch the phone.
Reflections, voice notes, the examination itself: covered before anyone at the coffee shop, on the train, or across the kitchen table can glance at them.
The home screen, the examination, your journal: the surface everything below protects.
Face ID or a PIN stands between the world and your words. The screen covers itself the moment you switch away.
A 256-bit key, generated on your iPhone, held in the iOS Keychain. It has never existed anywhere else.
AES-256-GCM. Your journal, examinations, and voice notes exist only in this form, unreadable without the key.
And so does your data. There is nothing beyond this line.
We built Confess so we could never read it. What you confess is between you, the priest, and God.
The season card below is green because the Church is in Ordinary Time. Visit during Lent and it turns violet. On Pentecost, red.
Confess keeps the same calendar: the day’s Gospel, the saint of the morning, an examination that takes the season’s shape. There is nothing to set up. The app knows the season the way your parish does.
Morning to night, this is where the app earns its keep.
The Today tab opens on the Gospel, the saint of the morning (one of 170+), and where you stand in the season. The examination waits one tap away.
All 83: the Rosary, the Stations, litanies, novenas, the creeds. Filters put the right one on screen in two taps, even on a lunch break.
The Act of Contrition in traditional, contemporary, and simplified forms, with a practice mode that walks it line by line until it’s yours. You’ll never blank in the confessional.
The five-step Ignatian Examen: presence, gratitude, review, sorrow, resolve. Write it or record it. Voice notes are encrypted with the same key as everything else.
