CLE 1St Quarter Exam Reviewer
Grade 10
LESSON # 1
LIVING THE FAITH: CHRISTIAN
MORALITY
All persons are called to reflect and
analyze the situation first before jumping
into immediate action or conclusion. Life
isn’t only about doing what “I” want to do.
You have to consider and think about the
common good as reflected in the outcome
of your chosen action or decision.
Christian morality is all about discipleship.
FOLLOWING JESUS CHRIST
To be moral in God’s terms, we should look
and imitate the person of Jesus Christ.
Showed to us our true nature and reason for
existence. Therefore, Christian morality
is about asking ourselves: What Would
Jesus Do?
CHRISTIAN MORALITY
It is about following Jesus Christ. It’s about
LIVING and DOING what makes you
TRULY FREE and reflecting on our
experiences in the light of life and teachings
of Jesus Christ. Through the grace and
strength of the Holy Spirit.
HOW DO WE KNOW HOW TO FOLLOW
JESUS?
The very source of doing and living this
morality is Jesus Christ.
Sacred Tradition, the way of life of the
people of God passed us through the
Church.
Sacred Scriptures (the Bible) offers us the
knowledge and teachings of Jesus Christ as
it is the record of His life and how He lived
it.
DEMANDS OF CHRISTIAN MORALITY
● Faithful relationship with God
● Observance of the Commandments
● Following Jesus Christ
Loving service is patterned after Jesus
Christ. Christ expressed His kingship most
importantly by serving others and
commanding us to love and serve others as
well.
> FAITHFUL RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD
True relationship suggests that we seek to
give the other what is good. To respond to
God’s love to us by loving Him back. Loving
God means being faithful to what He
desires for us in order to be like Him.
It also means to love ourselves and others.
In being good and loving, we reflect on our
lives, the God who is all Good and the
source of all goodness. In all our actions
and decisions, we have to express the God
that we are in relationship with.
- BEING TRUE TO OUR RELATIONSHIP
WITH GOD
God is not only the ultimate source, but also
the perfect norm of goodness. It is revealed
in the Scriptures and reveals MOST FULLY
through the LOVE that Jesus has revealed
to us.
> OBSERVANCE OF THE
COMMANDMENTS
Given by God to His people Israel as a sign
of His love and for them to live their lives in
abundance and prosperity.
The Commandments remain central in
Christian morality because they clearly
express how we must love one another.
When Jesus said, “love God and love your
neighbors” the Commandments were the
exact picture of it.
… SO WHAT HAPPENED TO THIS RICH
YOUNG MAN?
Clearly, his question, “What good must I do
to gain eternal life?” implies his desire to be
truly free and happy to have a life spent on
something valuable and lasting.
How do you think these events came to
exist? What could have been the reasons
why people did these actions?
Christian faith is not and will never be
limited to pious acts and religious
practices.
“... HE WENT AWAY SAD BECAUSE HE
HAD MANY POSSESSIONS.”
Inordinate attachments limit our freedom
to follow Jesus and do God’s will.
> FOLLOWING JESUS CHRIST
To be with God and to follow His will. A kind
of life and way of living consistent to God’s
will. Vividly seen and displayed in the
person and life of Jesus Christ, His Son
Sin imprisons us and robs us of our
freedom.
SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION
Our capacity to be loving AND FORGIVING
comes from our experience of God, who
loves us unconditionally and forgives us
magnanimously. Revealed in the Scriptures
and revealed MOST FULLY through the
LOVE that Jesus has revealed to us.
SUMMARY:
- Christian morality is following Jesus Christ
in a world of light and shadows that exist
within us and in society. As disciples of
Christ, we are all called to love God by
loving one another as Jesus Christ has
loved us (John 15:12).
- Christian morality asks one of the basic
questions of faith: “What should I do?” (St.
Augustine). To this, Christ answers: “Follow
Me.”
- God is both the ultimate source and norm
of goodness. Our own decision to love and
to do what is good is our personal response
to God, who loved us first and is our perfect
norm of loving service.
- The Commandments are the simplest,
clearest, and most universal norms for
human good conduct that have come down
to us through history. The Decalogue, the
two love commandments that Christ drew
from the Old Testament, and His own
unique love commandments (John 15:12)
express how the proof and condition of true
love of God is our loving service of our
neighbor.
- Jesus Christ, the Incarnate Son of the
Father, is not only the perfect exemplar of
what it means to be a truly good and loving
person. Through the Holy Spirit, He, too,
becomes the source of our inner strength to
follow Him and grow every day in His
likeness.
- The goal of Christian morality can be
summarized thus: to respond to the call of
becoming loving persons in the fullness of
life with others in the Christian community
by following Jesus Christ, our Savior,
through His Spirit indwelling in us.
LESSON # 2
BEING HUMAN, BEING MORAL
The word BEING was repeated twice. In a
Scriptural mindset, repeating the word
connotes IMPORTANCE.
What does BEING mean?
BEING
The nature or essence of a person or
things, qualities that constitute an existent
thing, and the quality or essence of things.
That in BEING human we are not just given
a title or state of being a human; we are all
called to “be human”. There is SOMETHING
in HUMAN that needs to be expressed and
lived out.
We want to answer the questions:
● Who am I?
● What does it mean to be a human
person?
Reflecting on these questions will
help us appreciate the relationship of our
natural experience of who we are with what
Christ has revealed to us about ourselves
and understand how to act in a truly human
way.
“Man has been given a sublime
dignity, based on the intimate bond which
unites him to his Creator: in man there
shines forth a reflection of God Himself.”
-St. John Paul the Great
“A person filled with love of God and
love of neighbor reflects something of
heaven.”
-St. Marie Eugenie of Jesus
HUMAN DIGNITY
It is one of the principles of Social
Teachings of the Church.
Every man is created in the image and
likeness of God (Gn. 1:26) and redeemed
by Jesus Christ and therefore every human
being is worthy to be respected and
invaluable.
Every human being, regardless of race,
language, sex, age, religion, sexual
orientation, economic or political status,
health, intelligence, achievement or any
other differential characteristic, is worthy of
respect.
It is simply being human that establishes
one’s dignity.
Together with the call to be respected,
human dignity also shows the person’s
CAPACITY TO DO, GROW and CHANGE.
“I CAN. WE CAN”.
The inherent dignity of a human being
includes a person's capacity for
SELF–RESPECT, SELF–CONTROL,
EMPOWERMENT, AUTONOMY, and
RATIONALITY.
We are endowed with CAPACITIES THAT
NEEDS TO BE EXERCISED
RESPONSIBLY.
TRUTH ABOUT HUMAN PERSONS
> HISTORICAL BEINGS
We are constantly growing through time;
physically, socially (in the way we relate),
self-awareness, maturity, and understanding
and respecting the dignity of others.
We are FREE HISTORICAL BEINGS; past
experiences and choices formed us, and
decisions of today will shape and direct the
kind of person we would become.
We are constantly called to GROW IN
CAPACITY TO LOVE. Growing in love is the
mark of our growing in the likeness of Jesus
Christ.
> EMBODIED SPIRITS
Only by freely choosing to be of loving
service to others can we grow to become
our fullest selves as embodied spirits,
conscious beings, and relational persons
who are unique yet fundamentally equal.
Man is both Body and Spirit. We use our
physiological body to perceive and interact
with the world. We experience it through our
senses and feel all the limits it bears.
We express our person through our
thoughts, feelings and actions. But persons
are more than just walking creatures made
up of muscles, ligaments, nerves, and
bones.
We are embodied spirits and are capable of
GOING BEYOND the material and senses.
We Spiritual gifts of intellect and will. We are
gifted with imagination. We have the
capacity to sense the DIVINE.
It includes:
- Capacity to imagine fictional worlds;
- Decipher the situation and setting of the
past;
- Ability to connect to what is IMMATERIAL;
- OUR INTELLECT AND WILL (these are
INTEGRAL to our BEING HUMAN)
We have to clarify the ESSENTIAL LINK of
BODY AND SPIRIT. Man is EMBODIED
SPIRIT
◦ NOT body alone
◦ NOT Spirit alone
HUMAN PERSON HAS BOTH but claims to
be the unity of body and spirit. NOTHING
WITHOUT THE OTHER.
> CONSCIOUS BEINGS
CAPACITY for SELF – REFLECTION
We are aware of ourselves in our out-going
acts (CFC688).
Aware of our THINKING, EMOTIONS,
EXPERIENCES, and MEANING OF OUR
ACTS.
We are endowed with INTELLECT and
WILL. We are more than mere objects. We
are NOT driven by external forces or
instincts. There are reasons (and we put
reasons) to the things that we do.
KINDS OF HUMAN ACTIONS
ACTS OF MAN
- instinctive or involuntary
- neither morally good or evil
HUMAN ACTS
- consciously and freely chosen acts
- subject to inquiry if good or evil
- we are called to become aware of our free
human acts and carefully discern the good
things to do
It is only through the good and proper use of
our freedom that we can become more fully
ourselves.
> RELATIONAL BEINGS
We are social beings. Alone, we are
insufficient. We become the fullest of
ourselves through our relationship with
others.
In our very creation, we have been called to
be relational.
We are beings always BY, WITH, and FOR
others.
- Born and raised by our families.
(origin)
- We become our true selves through
our interaction with others.
(influence)
- Give up our self centered tendencies
to love others (vocation)
God, our Creator, is Himself a loving
communion of Three Persons. He relates to
us as a community.
Implications:
- True moral living is never just a
private or personal concern
- Our love for God must be
inseparable with and must find its
true and explicit expression in our
love (relationship) with our families,
friends and community.
> UNIQUE, BUT FUNDAMENTALLY
EQUAL
We are all different. We are diverse in all the
levels we could think:
◦ Opinions
◦ Beliefs
◦ Traits
◦ Behaviors
◦ Physical appearance
◦ Preferences
Meaning, we are all basically equal at the
core. Fundamental equality demands a
basic respect for one another.
Jesus Christ reveals to us the fullness of
our dignity.
What does it mean to be human? Look at
Jesus Christ. IN and THROUGH Christ,
God revealed Himself fully to us. We
acquire full awareness of our dignity of the
SURPASSING worth of our humanity; the
meaning of our existence.
Jesus is our exemplar of being fully human.
He showed us that OUR COMMON
HUMAN DIGNITY IS GROUNDED IN THE
LOVE OF GOD, who sustains, redeems,
and empowers us TO LOVE and calls us to
share in His own eternal life. (CFC 685)
THE HUMAN PERSON (A CHRISTIAN
VISION)
● We are created in the image and
likeness of God
- You are created by Love, out of Love, and
for Love! Called to share in God’s infinite
knowing and loving, to be in relationship
with him, AND TO CARE FOR ALL
CREATION.
● We have been redeemed by Christ
- What makes us truly human is not our
self-centeredness and sin, but our
CAPACITY TO LOVE.
● We are empowered to love by the
Holy Spirit
- God transforms us and empowers us to
grow in love and live according to our
dignity. EVERYTHING IS GRACE. This
means that our capacity to die to our
self-centeredness and sin in order to be of
loving service to others is itself a gift from
God.
● We are destined to share in God’s
eternal life
- We all belong to God’s family and are
destined to share in the happiness and
freedom of God’s children. We are adopted
sons and daughters of God.
 ● Human beings: Equal in Dignity
- Called to share in God’s infinite knowing
and loving, to be in relationship with him,
AND TO CARE FOR ALL CREATION.
● LAUDATO SI’ (a call to care for all
creation)
◦ Connectedness - nurture connectedness
◦ Tenderness - relate tenderly
◦ Gratefulness/Gratitude - always be grateful
JESUS’ TEACHINGS - THE PARABLE OF
THE GOOD SAMARITAN
The parable illuminates our
understanding of how our authentic love of
neighbor is grounded on our Christian vision
of the human person.
> “WHO IS MY NEIGHBOR?”
(Recognizing the call behind the Parable
of the Good Samaritan)
The call is not about knowing who will
receive your help. It is about knowing HOW
TO ACT as the neighbor (a true person for
others).
A call to be an authentic lover of one’s
neighbor:
- To be of LOVING SERVICE TO OTHERS
- A person of authentic love that transcends
boundaries of race, religion, or prejudice
- A person who recognizes the DIGNITY OF
OTHERS
A True Person for Others
- Responding to the real needs of others is
to truly obey God’s law to love both others
and God.
> “GO AND DO LIKEWISE” ((This is not
only a command to be like the Good
Samaritan, but also an invitation)
- An invitation to follow Jesus
- The challenging demand of CHRIST-LIKE
LOVE:
◦ To have the same deep love and respect
for the dignity of all persons, as Jesus did.
◦ Behave and have an attitude of
gentleness, tenderness and gratefulness.
In the end, because we know that God’s
love for us is the source of our own
immeasurable worth as human persons, we
are called to view each human person –
those we know and those we do not know –
through the eyes and heart of Christ
Himself.
SUMMARY:
- Understanding our human dignity is
essential to Christian morality because all
our free moral acts and decisions are
shaped by how we answer the question,
“What does it mean to be a human person?”
- With the use of reason, we can discern the
truth that all human persons are historical,
conscious, and relational embodied spirits
who are unique though fundamentally equal
in dignity.
- Christian morality focuses on Jesus Christ
as the perfect exemplar of being human. He
reveals to us who we truly are. In and
through Him, we are able to know more
about ourselves as growing persons in
community who are created, redeemed, and
made holy every day of our lives and thus
are called to live as children of the Father,
caring for all of His creation.
- The “Parable of the Good Samaritan”
illuminates our understanding of how our
authentic love of neighbor is grounded on
our Christian vision of the human person.