CLE exam

• Parents


  Persons who have been there for us since our birth
• Care


  To empathize with the needs of others and seek their well-being
• Jesus went across the Sea of Galilee [of Tiberias], a large crowd followed because they had seen Jesus performing miracles on the sick
• Jesus feeding the 5000


  1. Jesus asked Philip where they could buy food to test him

  2. Andrew said a boy had 5 loaves of bread and 2 fish

  3. Jesus took the loaves and fish, gave thanks and distributed them

  4. The people saw the miracles and believed Jesus was the Prophet
• We are called to be stewards of human life
• CFC 1032: 'We are stewards of life who must respect and care for our own lives and the lives of others. Hence, it is not simply a question of not killing but protecting, promoting, and enhancing the quality of life.'
• Family


  The seedbed where we first learn and imbibe the values and virtues to ourselves
• Ways to understand family


  • Covenant relationship
  • Domestic church
  • Foundation for civil society
• Family as covenant relationship

  Lives in love and mirrors the love of God to His people
• Family as domestic church


  First through the family by the grace of the Holy Spirit received in Baptism that we receive the gift of faith and live our identity as adopted sons and daughters of God
• Family as foundation for civil society


  The first and vital cell of society
• Children should love, respect and obey their parents
• Respect


  Recognizing creation as God's handiwork, a reflection of His goodness, greatness and so meant to be used with care
• Parable of the rich fool

  1. A man requested Jesus to divide his brother's property

  2. Jesus told the man who gave him the right to judge or divide the property

  3. Jesus told a parable about a rich man who had land that bore crops

  4. The rich man planned to tear down his barns and build bigger ones to store all his goods

  5. God said "You fool! This very night you will have to give up your life; then who will get all these things you have kept for yourself?"

  6. Jesus concluded this is how it is with those who pile riches for themselves but are not rich in God's sight
• Characteristics of God's creation


  • Real (not an illusion or product of imagination)
  • Intelligible (created for purpose and meaning)
  • Good (each creature possesses its own goodness and perfection)
• We are the crown and key to God's creation
• To subdue the earth


  To care for, nurture, and transform it according to God's purpose
• People tend to abuse the environment and destroy living creatures because of inordinate desire for progress and greed
• Humility


  The acceptance of one's own frailties and need for God's grace
• Lot's escape from Sodom


  1. Angels told Lot to take his wife and two daughters and flee

  2. Lot hesitated but the Lord's compassion led them to safety outside the city

  3. They were told to flee for their lives and not look back

  4. Lot requested to escape to a nearby town, and the Lord allowed it
• Sin


  Acting or failing to act, or a power or force that leads us into evil
• Effects of sin


  • Refuse to follow conscience's call toward the good
  • Reject God, our Creator and Lord, and our true selves
  • Break God's covenant with us
  • Refuse God's love
• Venial sin


  A sin that can be forgiven
• Mortal sin


  A sin which leads to spiritual death, loses the promise of eternal life, excludes us from the Kingdom of God
• Occasions of sin

  • Persons
  • Places
  • Things
• To combat sin, we need to remain in the state of grace and develop virtues