[THEO] TOPIC 1 & 2

• Positive experiences tell us that these are closest to what it means to be human
• Negative experiences means that this is not what life is all about and what it means to be truly fully alive. It is the face of protest
• St. Irenaeus of Lyon said that the glory of God is the human person fully alive
• For Jesus of Nazareth, the deeper truth about humanity is the experience of Kingdom
• The Kingdom of God as the horizon against which life is to be lived out
• best evidence for reality of God’s Kingdom is Jesus’ own life
• St. Vincent de Paul said that to

  live out the values of the kingdom, we need to conform our lives to

  Jesus
• It is easy to be born as human being but difficult to be a human person
• Everyday is the whole of doing, thinking, and feeling in

  our daily live and recurring routine
• Virtue is a good habit “mabuting gawi”
• Virtuous person is one who possesses good habits and practices these in a consistent way
• Virtues as good habits says a lot about the character or kind of person one is
• Virtues are demonstrated in ordinary events of life
• Vices is the opposite of virtues
• Virtues also useful when we

  deal with big questions and issues
• Our being upright persons is not only measured by our responses to big issues
• human actions tell who we are and what kind of person we want to be
• Virtues are not heavenly sent or in-born
• when virtues are acquired and polished by constant practice, they form character of a person
• habits are behavior practice ingrained in a person that is often done spontaneously because it has been fashioned as integrally part of the person already
• questions central in formation of

  virtue:

  • what kind of person do i want to be
  • where i am now or what is my character
  • what habits or practices should i develop
• the fundamental question in our lives is what kind of person should i be
• conscience is the inner voice within us or voice of God
• we try to understand person wholistically or holistically instead of focusing on isolated actions
• a common thread in the community is the desire to be good
• repeated actions exhibit goodness of a person
• discipleship is having an intimate relationship with Jesus and to follow His ways
• being a virtuous person means having a set of related virtues
• kabaitan is related virtue of sympathy
• display virtue of compassion or pagmamalasakit
• community continuously instills and encourage the living of good habits
• Jesus is a virtuous person par excellence who embodied and expressed the virtues that are associated with kingdom of God
• St. Paul is an individual who offered hope, faith, love or charity as gifts of grace from God
• St Thomas of Aquinas (1225-1274) is the great theologian of 13the century
• St. Thomas Aquinas identified four different virtues

  • Prudence
  • Justice
  • Temperance
  • Courage
• the formation of virtues or good habits is a lifelong process