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• Christian moral life


  It's about the Gospel, it's about growing in love and holiness
• Living the message of the Gospel


  It's the commitment in the thought, word, and action to the ongoing process of freeing oneself from the enslaving sin and becoming a true disciple of God
• Christian moral life


  • Involves being sincere and mature in following Christ
  • Authentic - being truly the person God created him/her
  • Liberating - freedom from sin through Christ
• Human Person


  The key to a moral life
• Incarnation


  The son of God assumed a human nature; Jesus becoming human; the World made flesh
• Human Person


  • Open and Rational
• Full selves


  Positive development of social, physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual aspects of a person
• The person's nature as open and relational can be traced back in the Genesis 2:18, when God said that it's not good for man to be alone
• Being BY, being WITH, and being FOR


  Speak the truth that a person is a product of the past, continues to grow and develop in the present, and lives not only for himself but for other people in love and service
• Persons


  • Endowed with intellect and will
  • Having self-awareness through knowing and free willing becomes the basis for moral life
  • Knowledge and freedom impute in a person's responsibility and accountability
• Will


  Capacity to choose
• Intellect


  Capacity to know
• Discern


  The act or process of determining the right decision/action
• Person


  Embodied spirits, they have a body and soul, the body and soul as one make up the human person
• Manichaeism - major religions founded by the Iranian prophet Mani which believes that the body is a source of evil
• St. Paul: 'Body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who's in you, whom you have received from God… So, Glorify God in your body (1 Corinthians 6: 19-20)'
• To embody


  To intimately give or connect the body to (the spirit)
• To dignify


  To make worthy
• History


  Speaks of the past, it tells and gives you the reason how to be present came to be
• Pilgrim


  A person who journeys to a sacred place for religious reasons; Christians in a journey toward the Kingdom of God
• Historical


  Pertaining to the past, being subject to time (past, present and future)
• Persons


  • Unique yet fundamentally equal, as unique individuals, people differ in many ways: physically, emotionally, intellectually, and morally
• Unique


  Being different, possessing a different distinct quality, attribute or characteristic
• Rational Soul


  According to Aristotle, a soul capable of reason, or simply referring to the human beings different from that of plants and animals
• Morality


  Is concerned with human acts
• Human act


  An act that comes from deliberate and free exercise of Freedom
• Deliberation


  It means that person has knowledge or awareness of the act. It can be expressed in verbal or non-verbal means
• Freedom


  It means that the person has control over an act, whether to pursue it or not
• Voluntariness


  It means that the person who's free and aware of the act wills or desires an act to happen
• For Christians, the ultimate norm of morality is the person of Jesus Christ
• Constituents


  Refers to that which makes or comprises of, from the verb "to constitute"
• Modifiers of human acts


  • Ignorance
  • Passions
  • Fear
  • Violence
  • Habit
• Ignorance


  The lack or absence of knowledge that ought to be present, also called privative knowledge
• Passions


  Refer to those bodily appetites or tendencies, like love, hatred, grief, horror, hope, despair, courage, fear, or anger
• Fear


  Refers to a feeling or reaction to danger or threat
• Violence


  Is an external force applied by a person to compel another to perform an act against his/her will
• Habit


  Refers to acts developed out of repetition and which facilitates the performance of an act in a certain manner
• Appetite


  Refers to the desires of the tendencies of the body
• Culpability


  Worthy of blame or sanction
• Invincible


  Can't be overcome