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Making Moral Choices
Using Grace and Conscience
Grace
The free and undeserved gift from God
God's gift to help us prepare for salvation
It enables our freedom and perfects it
Sanctifying Grace
Sanctifying Grace
Supernatural gift from God by which our sins are forgiven and restores our communion with God
Received at baptism
Sacramental Grace
Gifts that are receiving through the 7 sacraments
Baptism
Communion
Reconciliation
Confirmation
Religious Life
Married Life
Anointing of the Sick
Actual/Habitual Grace
Actual Grace
God's interventions and support for us in the everyday moments of our lives.
Special Graces
Special Graces
Gifts intended for the common good of the Church:
Wisdom
Understanding
Right Judgment
Courage
Knowledge
Reverence
Wonder and Awe
What is it?
Conscience
It is not something that we possess
It is something we do
"the relationship between man's freedom and God's law is most deeply lived out in the 'heart' of the person, in his moral conscience."
-Pope John Paul II
Conscience and Natural Law
How do we use our Conscience?
Conscience bears witness to natural law...do good and avoid evil.
Involves utilizing reason in order to respond to correct moral behavior.
NL makes known the objective and demands of the moral good while the conscience is the application of this law.
3 Dimensions of the Conscience
Dimensions of Conscience
Synderesis: basic capacity to understand value
Moral Science: the process of discovering the good to be done or the evil to be avoided
Judgment: specific determination of that good in a situation
Synderesis
Synderesis
- Describes our innate knowledge of universal moral principles
- to understand moral truth
- Through Synderesis we always choose what we PERCEIVE to be good and avoid what we PERCEIVE to be evil
- Human Perceptions: we never choose what can be evil for us, we only choose what we understand to be good.
- Humanity always seeks the "good"
Moral Science
- "Formation of conscience"
- School, Culture, Politics
- Parents, Families, Friends
- Must draw on various sources of moral knowledge to form what is good and what is bad.
- "Conscience has rights because it has duties"
- Catholics have an obligation to follow their conscience, equally they have an obligation to follow it correctly.
Moral Science
Judgment
- Making decision on how to act
- Knowing what to do can be easy, making the judgment to do it is not as easy.
- Concerns the past, present, and future situations.
- Conscience does not command from its own authority, but from the authority of God.