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Morality: the Journey in Christian Living UNIT 3 Morality: The Journey in Christian Living Lessons in This Unit ӹ Lesson 1: Exploring Morality with ӹ Lesson 10: Elements of a Good Sacred Art Moral Decision ӹ Lesson 2: What is Morality? ӹ Lesson 11: The Process of Making ӹ Lesson 3: Freedom and Choice: a Good Moral Choice The Human Person ӹ Lesson 12: Temptation and the ӹ Lesson 4: Conscience and our Reality of Sin Obligation to Form it ӹ Lesson 13: Structures of Sin and ӹ Lesson 5: The Ten Commandments Social Sin ӹ Lesson 6: Jesus Is the Model of ӹ Lesson 14: Justification, God’s Holiness Mercy, and Grace ӹ Lesson 7: Jesus’ Teaching on the ӹ Lesson 15: Support for Moral Living: Ten Commandments Personal Prayer and Openness to the Holy Spirit ӹ Lesson 8: Jesus Teaches Us to Love ӹ Lesson 16: Support for Moral Living: Community, the Sacraments, and ӹ Lesson 9: Jesus Gives Us the the Saints Beatitudes UNIT 3 OVERVIEW 393 Scripture Studied in this Unit ӹ Genesis 1:1-3 ӹ Ezekiel 36:26-27 ӹ John 8:43-45 ӹ Genesis 3:6 ӹ Matthew 5:11-17 ӹ Romans 6:8 ӹ Exodus 19:4-6 ӹ Matthew 6:22-2 ӹ 1 Corinthians 13:12- ӹ Exodus 20:2 ӹ Matthew 19:21 13 ӹ Deuteronomy 6:3 ӹ Matthew 22:37-40 ӹ Galatians 5:1 ӹ Joshua 24:15 ӹ John 1:14 ӹ Galatians 5:13 ӹ Psalm 16:3 ӹ John 1:17 ӹ Ephesians 4:25 ӹ Psalms 51:3-4 ӹ John 4:14 ӹ Hebrews 4:15 ӹ Psalm 107:28-30 ӹ John 8:12 ӹ 2 Peter 3:11 ӹ Sirach 15:17 ӹ John 8:31-32 ӹ 1 John 1:8 Connection to the Catechism of the Catholic Church Lesson 1 Lesson 7 Lesson 12 ӹ 1777, 1802 ӹ 577-582, 1950- ӹ 391-395, 402-409, 1986, 2054-2055, 413-421, 538-540, Lesson 2 2084-2141, 2197- 566, 1808, 2113, ӹ 1749, 1954, 1956 2257 2119, 2157, 2340 Lesson 3 Lesson 8 Lesson 13 ӹ 1700-1715, 1730- ӹ 1805-1845 ӹ 1849-1876, 1939- 1742 1942 Lesson 9 Lesson 4 ӹ 1716-1729, 1965- Lesson 14 ӹ 1776, 1778, 1783- 1986 ӹ 1987-2005 1785, 1792, 2039 Lesson 10 Lesson 15 Lesson 5 ӹ 1749-1761 ӹ 687-688, 2559- ӹ 2052-2082 2565, 2725-2741 Lesson 11 Lesson 6 ӹ 386, 1755-1756, Lesson 16 ӹ 50-73, 456-483 1780, 1849 ӹ 770-771, 777-780, 830-856, 960-962 394 © SOPHIA INSTITUTE FOR TEACHERS Introduction od created us for happiness. He wills “that you love one another, even as I have Gnothing more than that we share in His loved you, that you also love one another. own blessedness, and it is for this purpose By this all men will know that you are my that God created us in His image and disciples, if you have love for one another” likeness. To be created in the image of God (John 13:34). This is the whole meaning of means that we have intellect, free will and Christian morality — to use our freedom for the capacity to love. When we exercise our the sake of charity, for self-gift. freedom for the sake of loving God and one As Christ shows us, charity makes many another we become like Him. The gift of demands of us and can only be expressed freedom is thus a capacity God gives to us in truth. True and mature Christian charity in order to make our life a gift to others. recognizes that certain acts are evil and to be avoided because they destroy To Be Holy is to Love as God Loves our relationship to God, our self, or our Another word that captures this human neighbor. Christian maturity is moved to vocation to love is holiness. To be holy is to what is good by the truth and beauty of God. love as God loves. Indeed, Christians often overlook the fact that Jesus elevated and Original Sin perfected the golden rule, which states, Because of sin, however, to love as God “Do unto others whatever you would have loves is not easy. Original Sin fragments the them do to you.” (Matthew 7:12). By making order and wholeness God established in the His free self-offering on the Cross — the beginning. The challenge of becoming like complete revelation of divine love and the God in holiness, therefore, is most evident in measure of Christian discipleship — He the experience of sin and the woundedness is able to give us a new commandment: that follows. Through sin we impair our This is the whole meaning of Christian morality — to use our freedom for the sake of charity, for self-gift. The Denier Caesar, by Philippe de Champaigne UNIT 3 OVERVIEW 395 capacity for love by abusing our freedom and to become children of God” (John 1:3). Jesus using it for selfish purposes, even while deep said of Himself “I am the way, and the truth, within our conscience we also experience and the life” (John 14:6). In becoming one God calling us to a deeper faithfulness and of us, and in being tempted in every way obedience to the light of truth. but without ever consenting to sin, the Son of God opened humanity up to the inner Sacred Scripture reveals the profound life of God’s eternal love (Hebrews 4:15). In depth of God’s mercy in dealing with the becoming flesh, the Word of God has raised problem of human sin. Therein, Salvation human nature up to divine life (2 Peter 1:4). History tells the story of how God gives This is why we call Christian morality “Life humanity a variety of helps to assist us in Christ.” on our path to holiness. We need these helps because of the weakness with which Original Sin affects us. Living Life in Christ The first of these helps is God’s law by A key to living in Christ and receiving which he guides us toward the way of life this life as a gift is prayer. Prayer is how (Deuteronomy 30:19). God’s law was first we meet the gaze of our loving Savior written on stone tablets at Mount Sinai and who longs to renew us from within and then written anew on our hearts through release us from the bondage of sin. When the indwelling of the Holy Spirit at Baptism. we encounter Him in prayer, the Divine The second help God gives us is among the Physician heals our interior wounds, first fruits of our Baptism, namely, the seeds insecurities and weaknesses. of those virtues that build us up in holiness, The liturgy offers us the supreme especially faith, hope, and charity. By opportunity for this communion with God. infusing within us the virtues of Christian All the Sacraments are an invitation from living, God empowers us to live as children Christ to encounter His love and receive of light (Ephesians 5:8) who for freedom the spiritual nourishment that renews have been set free from sin (Galatians 5:1). us and restores us to the happiness for which God made us and the fullness of life. God’s Greatest Gift to Us The Sacrament of the Eucharist holds a privileged place in Christian discipleship, These forms of assistance that God gives as does the Sacrament of Reconciliation. to us would not amount to much, however, By these two fonts of grace, the divine without the redemption won for us by Jesus life of Christ is built up in us and draws us Christ. This is God’s greatest gift to us. more deeply into the Trinity’s own inner Through His life and Death, Suffering and life of blessedness. It is into this most holy Resurrection — the Paschal Mystery — Jesus place that Jesus calls us when He asks us to has not only exemplified perfect holiness follow Him. The challenge of the moral life of life, but He has also opened for us a is simply to respond generously to His call. wellspring of grace and has given “power 396 © SOPHIA INSTITUTE FOR TEACHERS Connections to New York Religion Guidelines Theme Content Overview Through our relationship with Jesus, we ӹ Definition of morality grow in an ever-deepening awareness ӹ The Basis of Catholic morality in the life of who we are, and how to live. Catholic and teaching of Jesus Christian morality gives direction to our • Jesus’ relationship with God the response to God’s call. Father • Jesus’ teaching on the Objectives Commandments ӹ To help the young adolescent grow • Jesus’ teaching on love in an understanding of the moral • Jesus’ vision of the Kingdom responsibilities arising from one’s • Jesus’ invitation to His Disciples relationship with Jesus. ӹ Learning to choose ӹ To help the young adolescent • Fundamental choices understand what conscience is and how to form his or her conscience according • Definition of conscience to the Catholic faith. • The Development of conscience ӹ To help the young adolescent learn • Elements of a moral decision basic concepts of morality and develop • The process of making a good moral skills for moral decision-making. choice ӹ To enable the young adolescent to • Dealing with temptation recognize the role of the Spirit and the • Failure to choose the good as God witness and guidance of the Catholic sees it Christian community in moral living. ӹ The Supports for moral living • Personal prayer and openness to the Holy Spirit • The witness of the community • Sacraments as nourishment and strength • The Communion of Saints UNIT 3 OVERVIEW 397 Vocabulary ӹ Conscience ӹ Agape ӹ End ӹ Morality ӹ Eros ӹ Relativism ӹ Free Will ӹ Storge ӹ Consequentialism ӹ Human action ӹ Philia ӹ Artifact ӹ Responsibility ӹ Virtue ӹ Concupiscence ӹ Voluntary ӹ Faith ӹ Intellect ӹ Freedom ӹ Hope ӹ Will ӹ Choice ӹ Charity ӹ Fallen Nature ӹ Human person ӹ Prudence ӹ Temptation ӹ Christian Anthropology ӹ Temperance ӹ Mortal Sin ӹ Hierarchy ӹ Fortitude ӹ Venial Sin ӹ Formation ӹ Justice ӹ Personal Sin ӹ Obligation ӹ Beatitude ӹ Social Sin ӹ Law ӹ Happiness ӹ Capital Sins ӹ Type ӹ Sermon on the Mount ӹ Justification ӹ Decalogue ӹ Grace ӹ Mercy ӹ Commandment ӹ Blessing ӹ Merit ӹ Revelation ӹ Moral ӹ Sanctify ӹ Perfection ӹ Object ӹ Merit ӹ Holiness ӹ Ontological ӹ Prayer ӹ Abolish ӹ Intention ӹ Covenant ӹ Fulfill ӹ Circumstances ӹ Communion ӹ Divine Legislator ӹ Good ӹ Holy Spirit ӹ Corporal ӹ Evil ӹ Church ӹ Spiritual ӹ Sin ӹ Ecclesia ӹ Works of Mercy ӹ Means ӹ Sacrament Pacing Guide Aim to begin in Unit 3 in February.
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