CONSCIENCE

Why I Like to Learn

Do you know the importance of having a

conscience?
• Through our individual conscience, we become
aware of our deeply held moral principles, we are
motivated to act upon them, and we assess our
character, our behavior and ultimately our self
against those principles.
• Conscience is a judgment of reason whereby the human
person recognizes the moral quality of a concrete act that he
is going to perform, is in the process of performing, or has
already completed.
• Conscience is the voice of God. God is speaking to
individuals, guiding them to do the right thing in a given
situation. Conscience can be described as a moral sense of
right and wrong.
• Conscience helps us hear the voice of God; it helps us recognize the truth
about God and the truth about how we ought to live. Conscience is "a
judgment of reason" by which we determine whether an action is right or
wrong.
• Jesus told the apostles, "If you love me, you will
keep my commandments" (John 14:15). We deepen
our relationship with God by following him, and in
doing so, we become more fully ourselves.
• The concept of “conscience", as commonly used in its
moral sense, is the inherent ability of every healthy
human being to perceive what is right and what is wrong
and, on the strength of this perception, to control,
monitor, evaluate and execute their actions.
FORMATION OF
CONSCIENCE
1. Our conscience is gradually shaped through all the
many and complex factors that enter into our growth to
Christian maturity.

2. Family upbringing, basic education and catechesis

on faith, our cultural attitudes and values, and the
friends we grow up with school and community all
influence the development of conscience.
3. To form a Christian conscience, one should attend
to the Word of God and the Teachings of the Church,
pray and be responsive to the gifts of the Holy Spirit.

4. It is in living out the faith that we form our

Christian conscience.
FUNCTIONS/WORKS OF
CONSCIENCE
1. To apply objective moral norms to our particular acts

2. To judge good or evil of an act; our conscience must decide

on three essential aspect:

a. The nature or object of the act

b. The intention of the doer
c. The circumstances which affect the morality of the act
3. When the judgment of conscience must decide on three
essential aspect:

a. Antecedent – It precedes the action.

b. Concomitant – It accompanies the action as it takes
place.
c. Consequent – A judgment that follows the act.
TYPES OF CONSCIENCE
1. True conscience – It judges a good act as good and
an intrinsically evil act as wrong.

2. Erroneous conscience – It mistakenly judges

something that is really evil to be good or something
good to be evil.
Erroneous Conscience
Other people has erroneous conscience
since they doubt the existence of God
and they became ignorant of what is
right and wrong
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CONSCIENCE AND LAW

(cf. CFC 701-711, 723-728)
1. Conscience does not create law; it takes it as a guide.

2. Conscience is not an autonomous guide, it follows just

law.

3. We are exercising authentic freedom in obeying moral

laws and our consciences.
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Conscience and the Magisterium

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• Magisterium refers to the teaching authority of the
Church, formed of the Bishops. It is one of the three
sources of authority alongside scripture and tradition.
• Whose task is to interpret and preserve the truths of
the faith transmitted through Scripture and
Tradition.
• To give authentic interpretation of the Word of God,
"whether in its written form or in the form of Tradition."
THANKS GUYS MWA!