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• Capital sins

  Tendencies to sin due to original sin, also known as seven deadly sins
• The seven deadly sins were first compiled by Pope Gregory I around the year 600
• Capital sins


  Dispositions toward sin and separation from God, affect individual sinners and social groups/institutions
• Seven capital sins


  • Pride
  • Lust
  • Wrath or Anger
  • Gluttony
  • Envy
  • Greed/Covetousness/Avarice
  • Sloth
• Pride


  Exalting oneself beyond what is due and true
• Jeremiah 9:23-24: '"Let not the mighty man boast of his might… but let him who boasts of this, that he understands and knows Me"'
• Lust


  Disordered desire for, or inordinate enjoyment of, sexual pleasure
• 2 Timothy 2:22: '"Flee also youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love [and] peace."'
• Wrath or Anger


  Destructive aggressiveness
• Romans 12:19: '"Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, 'Vengeance is mine, I will repay' says the Lord'"'
• Gluttony


  Excessive indulges in food or drink
• 1 Corinthians 10:31: '"Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God"'
• Envy


  Begrudging others' talents success, and wishing them evil
• Proverbs 14:30: '"A sound heart is life to the body, but envy is rottenness to the bones"'
• Greed/Covetousness/Avarice


  Desiring what belongs to others, leading to dishonesty, stealing, and injustice
• Hebrews 13:5: '"Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, 'I will never leave you nor forsake you'"'
• Sloth


  Laziness and escape from exerting due effort
• Proverbs 6:6: '"Go to the ant, you sluggard! Consider her ways and be wise"'
• Additional sins mentioned by St. Paul in Galatians 5:19-21


  • Immorality
  • Impurity
  • Sensuality
  • Idolatry
  • Sorcery
  • Enmities
  • Strife
  • Jealousy
  • Outbursts of anger
  • Disputes
  • Dissensions
  • Factions
  • Envying
  • Drunkenness
  • Carousing
• The Church's mission in regard to the moral lives of her members


  • To help form Christian moral character
  • To carry on and witness to Christian moral tradition
  • To serve as the community of Christian moral deliberation
• The church's role in the formation of moral consciousness or character of her members


  • Provides different symbols, images, and stories to help her members how to think, evaluate, judge, and decide in accordance to Christian moral norms
• The Church's moral tradition


  Helps members gain a sense of who they are as Filipino Catholics
• The Church's role as a community of moral deliberation

  • Provides directives/guidelines and the moral reasoning on many moral issues
  • Supports the moral catechetical programs in school, parish, or community
• St. Paul, in his letter to the Ephesians: 'And he gave some as apostles, others as prophets, others as prophets, other as evangelists, other as pastors and teachers, to equip the holy ones of the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ'
• The members of the church work together, each according to their ministry, to build the whole Church as Body of Christ