CST Principles & Sacraments

CST Principles

Alex's Reflections

Concern for the poor: This means actively seeking to understand their struggles, listening to their stories and treating them with dignity and respect. Viewing the poor through the lens of Christ's love inspires genuine care and a desire to alleviate their suffering.

Sacraments

Workers Rights: Work is a purely human act, it is a form of continuing participation in God’s creation. Work is a moral duty, a path to grow in virtues and personal responsibility.

CST PRINCIPLES

Solidarity - having the mindset to not give up since there are other people suffering like me, I'm not alone.

Care for God's Creation - I always pick up after my trash and other belongings.

Concern for the poor - Most of the time I'll spare some money for people who are struggling in the streets.

Human dignity - All people are seen in the image of God, regardless of what they've done.

Family, Community, Participation - Going out for walks in the neighborhood, playing sports in the community center

Workers rights - For days we get to work, I try my hardest to do the best job I can.

SACRAMENTS

Baptism - I was baptized at a very young age, still devote my life to The Holy Spirit

Eucharist - Going to the Cathedral every Sunday to see the bread and wine

Anointing of the Sick - I have a better understanding of how it works since my grandfather had passed away

Confirmation - Further sanctifies and secures my devotion to The Holy Spirit

Reconciliation - Going to confession, personally praying to God for all the sins I commit.

Holy Orders - Spending more time with family, church, and talking to priests/bishops about their experiences

Marriage - Living according to virtues so I can be the best possible husband/father I can be towads my wife and children

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Anointing of the sick: Meant to lead the sick person to healing of the soul, but also of the body if such is God’s will.

Marriage; becomes the representation of God’s love (life giving love) to humanity

Men and a woman that forgive, seek one another, and continually commit to each other

Holy Orders: Holy Orders are Bishops, Deacons, and Priests who marry the Catholic Church. They become spiritual Fathers guiding those who are lost to the Truth, the Good, Natural Law, and Virtues through love

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Kamila's Reflections

CST Principles

CST Principles

& Sacraments

Human Dignity &

Family Community Participation

Human Dignity:

Life and dignity of the Human Person.

I have never existed in history, there is currently no one like me, and there will never be one like me in history. We are made in the image and likeness of God. We seek goodness truth beauty and justice. We have a conscience and are capable of rationalizing

Family Community Participation:

What laws and policies systems our country have that uplift or undermine marriage, family, and or capacity of individuals to grow in community.

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Sacraments

CST Principles

Confirmation & Reconciliation

Catholic Social Teachings that we need to live by

Reconciliation:

Christ mercy, forgiveness, healing and grace that extends to us when we confess. It provides faith love and hope to overcome our disorders desires vices and mortal sins.

Confirmation:

It roots us more deeply in a relationship with God: it unites us more firmly to Christ. It increases the gifts of the Holy Spirit in us. It renders our bond with the Church more perfect. It gives us a special strength of the Holy Spirit to spread and defend the faith by word and action as true witnesses of christ (the truth) to confess the name of christ boldly and never to be ashamed of the cross.

Fatima's Reflections

- Solidarity: Everyone suffers, including you

- Care for God's creation: We are called to protect people and the planet, living our faith in relationship with all of God's creation.

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-- The way I live out caring for the poor is by praying for them, handing out burgers that we had by my area.

--For workers Rights: we work here at CRD for the chance of our tuitions being paid for us.

--For Annoining of the sick: the comfort I feel in the fact that my priest gave her communion and was in her presence in her last days.

--Marriage: practices virtues, in my life i've also been practicing virtues like patience and courage towards myself and others.

--Holy Orders: I've participated more in church lately and feeling the peace of reading God's word & recieving communion.

-- Solidarity: Living in Wrath and Laziness leading me to unhappy moments in life.

--Care for God's creation: Picking up trash from the floor, ground to resepect the earth/property.

--Confirmation: Growing a relationip with God; trying to focus more during mass, to feel his calling/presence more.

--Reconciliation: Going to confession to feel more at ease being able to recieve God's forgiveness.

--Human Dignity: Learning to treat everyone equally without judgement despite backgrounds; as well as foriving and moving forward.

--Family Community & Partcipation: Becoming more extroverted, getting out of my comfort zone to participate in more of the greater good for my family and loved ones.

--Baptism: Having my life be sactified be The Holy Spirit.

--The Eucharist: Receiving Jesus Christ on Sundays; being able to be in his presence.

Sacraments

- Baptism: cleansing the soul, sacrament marked by ritual use of water and admitting the recipient to the Catholic community.

- The Eucharist: It is celebrated by Christians around the world as a memorial of the death and resurrection of Jesus

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