Vocabulary
Conscience
A practical judgment of reason that helps a person decide the goodness or sinfulness of an action or attitude.
Two key principles involving conscience
1) You must form your conscience
2) You must follow your conscience
Our conscience is a___where a person is able to recognize the amount of good in their actions.
Judgement
The decision of our conscience are...
Implicit
Oscar Romero was born
In Ciudad Barrios, El Salvador
Vice
A bad habit, such as laziness, that inclines us to choose the evil rather than the good.
Three moral rules that must never be violated
1)Never do evil so good will come of it.
2)Whatever you what other to do to you do to them.
3)Love your neighbor as yourself.
Our conscience is three things:
Awareness of God's call to be. Awareness of God's call to know and do the good, that is, to love. A practical judgement of the intellect.
SEER
Study, Elect, Execute, Review.
Oscar Romero's birth date
August 15, 1917
Martyr
A witness ready to suffer and even die for truth and virtue; martyrdom is the ultimate act of fortitude.
Prayer's role in making moral actions...
God will guidance and strengthen us to choose morally and wisely.
"Conscience is a walkie-talkie set by which God speaks to us."
TorF
False
A person in tune with the truth, a prophet
A seer
He spoke out n defense of
The poor and voiceless.
Fortitude
The moral virtue that ensures firmness in difficulties and constancy in the pursuit of the good.
Four wrongs about conscience
Conscience as superego, Conscience as gut instinct, Conscience as Jiminy Cricket, Conscience as myth.
We are to be loving people, searching for moral truth, and doing good in our lives.
The personal nature of conscience
Two ways a person's conscience can be wrong
1) A person can make an honest mistake
2)The person may made very little effort to discover the truth.
Oscar died in
March 24, 1980.
B O N U S !
Discernment
A decision-making process that attends to the implications and consequences of an action or choice.
B O N U S!
Greek term for repentance
Metanola
B O N U S!
"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience"
To Kill a Mockingbird
B O N U S!
Martin Luther King, Jr. said:
"Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?'
B O N U S
Mexican martyr canonized in 2016
Jose Sanchez del Rio (Joselito)