Good and Evil

• Conscience- human reason making moral decisions.The knowledge we have of what is right and wrong the God-given compulsion within all human beings to do what is right and wrong
• Evil - the absence of good and the impulse to seek our own desires at all at te expense of good
• Free will- the decision making part of a persons mind is called the will.A person is able to chose apart from right and wrong without being controlled my other forces
• incartation-made fless.How god the son becomes fully human in the person of Jesus christ.Fully human and fully divine
• Privation-the loss or absence of a quality or something that is normally present.Evil is a privation of good
• Suffering -pain or loss which harms human beings.E.moral evil and natural evil
• Natural Law-The moral laws of right and wrong which are universal.
• goodness-the quality of being like God: seeking the well-being of others selflessly
• Popular

  Show devotion to God outside of church
• Forms of worship

  • Group prayer
  • Pilgrimage
  • Praying the Rosary
• The Rosary

  • A form of devotion that is very important to Catholics
  • A collection of prayers that have to be said in a set order, with some of the prayers being repeated many times
  • Catholics use a set of rosary beads to count off each prayer
  • Can take around 20 minutes or more to say the full Rosary
• When the Rosary is prayed

  • Daily at home
  • Before or after Mass at church
  • More frequently during October (month of the Rosary) and May (month of Mary)
• The Rosary remembers key events in the life of Jesus

  Mary was present at many of these events and so the Rosary is a prayer that celebrates their relationship
• The Rosary

  Venerates Mary and provides Catholics with an opportunity to ask Mary to intercede for them and communicate their prayers to Jesus
• Mysteries of the Rosary

  • Joyful Mysteries (Monday and Saturday)
  • Sorrowful Mysteries (Tuesday and Friday)
  • Glorious Mysteries (Wednesday and Sunday)
  • Luminous Mysteries (Thursday)
• The Sorrowful Mysteries

  • Focus on the final events in Jesus' life as described in the Bible
  • Remind Catholics of all that Jesus went through for the sake of humanity
  • Show that God humbled himself by becoming man, suffering substantially and dying on the cross to save humans from their sins and give them eternal life after death
• Praying the Sorrowful Mysteries

  Allows Catholics to reflect on and give thanks for all that God has done for them, and can bring them comfort and hope when they are suffering themselves
• Rosary beads

  Mean Catholics do not have to focus all their attention on where they are in the Rosary, freeing them to reflect more deeply on the Mysteries