CLE #1 01/10/22 Tuesday, 11 January 2022 9:53pm Review Liturgical Seasons Advent Christmas (Epiphany) [Ordinary Time] Lent [Triduum] Easter Pentecost [Ordinary Time] GQ- Brain Unlocking Difficulties Human Dignity - recognition that human being possess a special value intrinsic to their humanity and worthy of respect Inviolable - safe from violation or profanation, sacred John 3:1-3- about how we as children of God, need to be like God by seeing him as heis and be pure as God is pure. Church Teaching - Catechism of Catholic Church (CCC) and Catechism for Filipino Catholic (CFC) affirm and explain the intrinsic dignity of the human person and point to it the source of Christian Moral Life. The Dignity of the Human Person - the divine image is present in every man, shines forth in the communion of persons, in likeness of the union of the divine persons among themselves. - human person endowed with spiritual and immortal soul, only creature in earth that God has willed for its own sake, destined for eternal beatitude. - participates in light and power of the divine spirit, capable of understanding the order of things est. by the Creator, direct own-self towards true good by free will, and finds perfection by seeking and loving what is true and good. - by virtue of his soul and spiritual powers of intellect and will, man is endowed with freedom, outstanding manifestation of the divine image. - by his reason, man recognizes the voice of God which urges him to do what is good and avoid what is evil, everyone is obliged to follow this law, hear conscience and fulfilled in love of God and neighbor, live ‘moral life and witness dignity of a person - The key to Christian moral life is our dignity as a human person, created by God, redeemed by Christ, sanctified by the Holy Spirit and destined for eternal life with God. True freedom can only be felt and experienced, when you always choose to do what is true and good. Gifts - Soul (responsible of the things we do) - Intellect ( - Free will - Conscience (to listen to voice of God) - Destined to have eternal life with God Human is endowed with ~ dignity ~ freedomCLE #2 01/17/22 Monday, 17 January 2022 1:44 pm Review Additional Gifts - Stewardship to the lost, least, and abandoned ‘Our Dignity as Human Person Human Person - only creature to whom God endowed so many gifts so they are expected to act responsibly. Endowed with dignity and freedom, we are expected to act morally, do good and avoid evil How do we act as human person with dignity and freedom? - commended to uphold justice and moral Jesus Christ summarized the commandments into two: God's Greatest Commandment - Love God with all your heart, mind, and soul. (referred to the first 3 commandments) (heart - always recognize God in everything you do, mind - givingtime to know more about God, sout find timeto praise and worship God) - Love your neighbor as you love yourseff. ‘Wefall into sin and refuses to love. God calls us to conversion through the Sacrament of Recon (purifies us) Itis impossible to love God whom we cannot see, but we can show this love to the least, lost and abandoned. - St. Augustin We are invited by God to be holy as the Father in heaven is holy. We are invited to be perfect as the Father in heaven is perfect. (holiness in everything you do) Excellence practice what is always right Holy Sacrament - enable us to be pure Fuffill our obligation in freedom with a sense that tells us what to do and what not to do “conscience”, Psalm &:5-7- about God making humans little less of the angels, gave us glory and honor, and gave the ability to rule over His creations. Genesis 1:27-28- about God creating men and women and blessed them, ordered them to muttiply, govern, and reign over the creatures on the ground, Mahatma Gandl Namaste - greetings - "Ihonor the place in you where the entire universe resides. | honor the place in you of light, love, truth, peace, and wisdom. | honor the place in you where, when you are in that place and | am in that placethereis only one of us.” - The God in me greets the God in you. TheSpirit in me greets the same Spirit in you.(Christian Meaning) John 3:1-3- about us being God’s children and God being with us all the time, throughout our life and us being responsible and doing good with adherence to God's image and likeness for we are meant to be pure as God is pure himself Reflection: With us being created in God's image and likeness, we all share the same responsibility to always uphold justice and always choose to do what is right with adherence to the 2 great commandments for we were given the ability to govern and preserve God's creation with love.Reflection Paper Monday, 24 January 2022 8:16 am st Paragraph - Short Summary of the Discussion 2nd Paragraph - Lesson focused in the discussion 3rd Pragraph - Realization and Message from the Lesson ‘We know we are worthy when we choose to be one. As humans, we have a dignity to uphold by all means, An honor that we must keep in mind and in heart, as created by the image and likeness of God. By abiding to his greatest commandments wholeheartedly and to use our gifts to serve God and our neighbors. And to willingly learn and apply excellence in everything we do, In Psalms 85-7, it tackled about how God made us, humans, little less of angels and gave us glory and honor to have the ability to rule over His creations. As a human person, we were given numerous gifts, together with numerous responsibilities. And as stated in 1 John 3:1-3, as children of God, we need to be like-God by seeing Him as He is and be as pure as He is, for we are bound to serve others, and are expected to be responsible enough and act morally in all things for we are endowed with dignity and freedom. We were meant to and will always be expected to always chooseto do good and avoid what is evil, and in times that we fail to do so, we must remember that we can always repent and convert through the sacrament of reconciliation. For it is a chance to redeem ourselves, ask for forgiveness, and become better at doing what is true and right. With us being created in God's image and likeness, redeemed by Jesus Christ, we are expected to grow into becoming His soldier against injustices in life. All human person shares the same responsibilities, guided by the two great commandments. We are to always uphold justice and choose to do what is right, not only because we want to save our dignity, but because itis what we should have donein the first place and the first thing that we should do in our today and tomorrow. In life, we faced cruelties and injustices, there were times where we failed to stand against it, however, itis never too late to stand against them today. We should always remember, to become tthe person we where meant to be, we should bea person with dignity, and exert excellence in everything we do.CLE #4 01/31/22 Monday, 7 February 2022 8:28 am 3 sources of faith in Catholic * Scripture “Tradition * church Teachings earned in the previous discussion that we don’t really haveto be perfect when it comes to doingthings, ‘we just have to be excellent (it means, practice what i right) and always choose to do what is good and true. What am | called for? Weare called to eternal life in and with Christ. How? - Christian Morality What is Christian Morality? - the principles of being a Christian where we follow the standards of the teaching of the Church and the Bible (own) CHRISTIAN | am Nothing w/out Christ Christian - one who professes belief in the teachings of Jesus Christ Morality - living life well. Living a good life, being upright and a child of good character (Notes of Fr. Rene Retardo, 2015) - one’s values choices and actions, the one is a community (we belongto a variety of groups or communities, with own set of values and own code of proper behavior) - itis complex, we weave together and be faithful to the core convictions as we make life choices and livethe out - science of what is ought to be - responsibility - doing good and avoiding evil - way to Christ which leads us to life - process of becoming authentically human - knowledge of moral principles, system of morals and qualities of human conduct Christian Morality - living a good life, being an upright person, a child of good character in the light of the teachings of Jesus Christ in which we profess. Three Classification of Humans Moral - someone who has conscience and knows right and wring but chooses the appropriates way rather than the wrong path Immoral- has conscience which is knowing what us right or wring but instead of choosing the right path they choose the wrong path ‘Amoral- person who doesn’t know right and wrong because they have mentality problems or they have insufficient learning (baby) Jesus Christ is the Moral Norm - He's the perfect model of being good, He is the way, the truth, and the life.CLE #5 02/07/22 Monday, 7 February 2022 8:33 am Review ‘One's morality is complex. \Nag discuss sila about hidden figures, naa unta koy answer pero same ideas rman sayang laway. LABAD KAAYO AKONG ULO TABANG HUHU. Romans 7:15 What | do, I do not understand. For | do not do what | want, but I do what | hate, - St.Paul - itis about doing something that you never wanted to do, but you ended up doing because of the sin that lives within as a human Morality vs Ethics Morality - living life well. Living a good life, being upright and a child of good character. Knowledge of moral principles and quality of human conduct. - What welive - Constantly doing what is right Ethics - guides us into making decisions of doing what is right or wrong - What we study - Reflective investigation into what is morally proper to do Moral Thrust and Human Energies We fail to listen to the call of morality. Many of us refuse to be a moral person. Our refusal to be moral or better our failure to be moral is dictated by our own history. Moral Thrust and Energies Without these it will be impossible to survive. Good and Evil Heed the guidance of Holy Spirit to do good and avoid evil Transcribed Lesson Humans always have difficulty when it comes doing what should be done because of certain ‘circumstances that puts us in a situation where we always end up doing what we never wanted to do because fo the sin within us that is hard to get rid of unless we heed the guidance of the Holy Spirit and of course if we take initiative and have the courage to fight for what is right.CLE #6 02/14/22 Monday, 14 February 2022, 10:34 am Prudence- careful good judgement that allows someone to avoid danger or risks Moral Agent - the Christian disciple as a person endowed with the gift of freedom, operating according to conscience (CFC 790) Mark 10:17-22 - about a young rich man that wants to have eternal life and despite have been following the ten ‘commandments, he cannot fully have the eternal life unless he gets the will to let go of his possessions and live a simple and humble life Freedom and Moral Responsibility Men should act on their own judgment and in the light of truth and govern activities with a sense of responsibility, striving after what is right and true. Freedom is finding meaning and the choice of moral good. Who are true lovers of freedom? How can we make use of responsible freedom? 5 point of Freedom and Moral Responsibility - Moral responsibility tells us that we must, should and ought to do certain acts because they are good and if we pursue them we become free. - Having moral responsibility makes human person capable of reflecting in the situation, forming intentions about how they will act and then carrying out the action. - Moral responsibility helps us to see how we are supposed to obey and do that which is good. - Moral responsibility is grounded and seen in the context of a community. - Moral responsibility is giving more of ourselves and what we have to others. Reflection: learned that, the moment we commit ourselves to being morally responsible, we will always do what is right to feel the kind freedom that we seemed to have lost for along time because of our way of living where we just focused on mostly on ourselves, however it always calls depending on the situation but we should always remember that if we are capable of doing something, may it be little or big, we should always do what isright and help others and not only ourselves. Remember: + Christian moral life isthe call to become loving persons, in the fullness of life with others in community before God in imitation of Christ. + If we want to become our truest self and truly happy we ought to choose the good. + We just have to dispose ourselves more in prayer so that the power of spirit will rest on us always.