Learning Outcomes:

 Explain the meaning of original

sin
Differentiate the Augustinian
and the Thomistic understanding
of original sin
 refers to a sin which
we derive from our
origins.
This means that this sin
is in each one of us; it is
our sin and not the sin of
the first human person
or the first sinner.
By original then, we are referring
to a type of inherited, hereditary,
and genetic type of sin.
 The grip of sin is
universal, we are all caught in
this grip “All have sinned and
fall short of the glory of God”

Sin is understood as a
disease and not in terms of
malice.
 St. Paul explains us the
origins of sin and how it really
got the best of each and
everyone of us.
He describe and give his point
in differences of Adam and
Christ. According to him
Christ is the remedy for sin.
 Adam (the archetypal man
of the first and old creation.
Christ (the archetypal
man, the head and the
beginning of the new creation.
St. Augustine raises the doctrine
(teaching) of original sin in the
context of grace.
Augustine does is to make
explicit(clear) that original sin is a
matter of human nature being fallen
in its head and archetype, Adam.
According to him also the human
race is a Massadamnata.
For St. Augustine, covetousness is
the same as concupiscentia or
concupiscence(libido), which is
literally closer in definition to lust
that it is to covetousness.
1. Pride
2. Envy
3. Anger
4. Sloth
5. Greed
6. Gluttony
7. Lust
- is an inordinate (excessive, undue, immoderate, unreasonable)
desire for one’s own excellence.
- believing that you are essentially better than others, failing to
acknowledge the accomplishments of others and excessive
admiration of yourself.
+ regular and thorough examinations of conscience
+ humility
+ meditation
 ENVY
- is sadness on account of the goods possessed
by another which are regarded as harmful to
oneself since they diminish own excellence or
renown (fame/popularity).

+ practice of humility
+ being grateful for one’s own goods
 ANGER
- is the inordinate desire for
revenge.
+ virtue of justice in thought,
words and deeds.
+ be in control of himself in
addressing an issue.
 SLOTH
- is sorrow in the face of spiritual good as it is
God’s good. Sloth is not just laziness but spiritual
laziness. (boredom of the soul)

+ remembering one’s promised, eternal reward as

well as one’s punishment of sin.
 GLUTTONY
- is an inordinate desire for food and drink.
+ temperance
 GREED
- is the inordinate love of having
possessions or riches.
+ thankful in prayer each day for the many
blessings enjoyed.
+ follow Christ’s humility and service
 LUST

- is the inordinate desire

for sexual pleasure.
+ chaste
Examination of conscience
1. I am the Lord your God. You shall not have strange gods
before me.
-Do I give God time every day in prayer?
-Do I seek to love Him with my whole heart?
-Have I been involved with superstitious practices or have I
been involved with the occult?
-Do I seek to surrender myself to God´s word as taught by the
Church?
-Have I ever received communion in the state of mortal sin?
-Have I ever deliberately told a lie in Confession or have I
withheld a mortal sin from the priest in Confession?
-Are there other "gods" in my life? Money, Security, Power,
People, etc.?
Examination of conscience
2. You shall not take the name of the
Lord your God in vain.
-Have I used God´s name in vain: lightly
or carelessly?
-Have I been angry with God?
-Have I wished evil upon any other
person?
-Have I insulted a sacred person or
abused a sacred object?
Examination of conscience
3. Remember to keep holy the
Lord´s Day.
-Have I deliberately missed Mass on
Sundays or Holy Days of Obligation?
-Have I tried to observe Sunday as a
family day and a day of rest?
-Do I do needless work on Sunday?
Examination of conscience
4. Honor your father and your mother.
-Do I honor and obey my parents?
-Have I given my family good religious
example?
-Do I try to bring peace into my home
life?
-Do I care for my aged and infirm
relatives?
Examination of conscience
5. You shall not kill.
-Have I physically harmed anyone?
-Have I abused alcohol or drugs?
-Did I give scandal to anyone, thereby
leading him or her into sin?
-Have I been angry or resentful?
-Have I harbored hatred in my heart?
Examination of conscience
6. You shall not commit adultery.
-Do I seek to control my thoughts and
imaginations?
-Have I respected all members of the
opposite sex, or have I thought of other
people as mere objects?
-Do I seek to be chaste in my thoughts,
words, actions?
-Am I careful to dress modestly?
Examination of conscience
7. You shall not steal.
-Have I stolen what is not mine?
-Have I returned or made restitution for
what I have stolen?
-Do I waste time at work, school, and
home?
-Do I seek to share what I have with the
poor?
Examination of conscience
8. You shall not bear false witness against
your neighbor.
-Have I lied? Have I gossiped?
-Do I speak badly of others behind their
back? -Am I sincere in my dealings with
others?
-Am I critical, negative or uncharitable in my
thoughts of others?
-Do I keep secret what should be kept
confidential?
Examination of conscience
9. You shall not desire your neighbor´s
wife.
-Have I consented to impure thoughts?
-Have I caused them by impure reading,
movies, television, conversation or
curiosity?
-Do I pray at once to banish impure
thoughts and temptations?
Examination of conscience
10. You shall not desire your neighbor´s
goods.
-Am I jealous of what other people
have?
-Do I envy the families or possessions of
others?
-Am I greedy or selfish?
-Are material possessions the purpose
of my life?
The main contribution of St. Thomas
Aquinas to the complete formulation of
the doctrine lay in his modification of St.
Augustine’s view that the vice of nature
which original sin actually consists in is
concupiscence, or the discordant
disorder of the appetites.
St. Thomas defining the essence of
original sin consists in the lack of
original justice: it makes possible the
dialogue between theology and the
sciences of human psychology.
The ideal harmonious state of human
nature at the beginning is placed just as
firmly in the supernatural sphere as the
final glorious state of human nature at the
end. So the present condition of our
humanity, contradictory and corruptible,
is allowed to be natural with reference to
God and His grace.