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**THEOLOGY REVIEWER** - **Lesson 1: LCUP's Vision, Mission, and Core Values** **Vision** \- the ability to see. \- the image or insight of how something could or should be in the future. \- an imagined idea or a goal toward which one aspires (C. Levert). **Vision Statement of LCUP:** [Moved...

**THEOLOGY REVIEWER** - **Lesson 1: LCUP's Vision, Mission, and Core Values** **Vision** \- the ability to see. \- the image or insight of how something could or should be in the future. \- an imagined idea or a goal toward which one aspires (C. Levert). **Vision Statement of LCUP:** [Moved by the Spirit of the Risen Christ] \- the school embodies the characteristics of the Risen Christ [La Consolacion University Philippines, envisions itself to become a catalyst for the wholistic transformational development] \- catalyst - tagapagsimula \- wholistic - whole aspect of personal life \- transformational development - the school is aiming for students to change for the better. [of Catholic *Augustinian Marian* graduates rooted in gospel values.] \- *Marian Devotion* - practicing and living in our lives the virtues of the Blessed Virgin Mary. **Augustinian and Marian in Spirit** - Values of Wisdom and Compassion - sustained by a faith - possessed the characteristics of Catholicity - transformed disciples of Jesus **Mission** \- a task or job that needs to be done **Mission Statement of LCUP:** To achieve the above vision, LCUP commits itself to generate and make available to its Augustinian Marian students, programs and services that will make them: - exhibit academic technical competence in their respective areas of discipline in the local and international environment; - demonstrate their knowledge, critical thinking and creativity by exploring the various avenues of learning and searching for truth; - manifest their willingness to serve specially the marginalized sector of our society; - demonstrate productivity in various areas of learning as responsible citizens of the society; and - live the Gospel values in the varied aspects of their personal and professional lives **Core Values of LCUP:** **3 Main Core Values** 1. **Unitas** - Unity - "One mind and One heart" 2. **Caritas** - Love/Charity 3. **Veritas** - Truth **Other Core Values**: - **Community Orientedness** - fostering a spirit of friendship, unity and interdependence (depending on someone) based on mutual trust and respect. - **Charity** - love is a concrete action, the hand to help each other. true love must be sensitive - **Compassion** - Love of God manifested in one's life/action. Mercy in action. We put ourselves in other people's situations. - **Missionary Spirit** - living a life that touches others. a life witnessing the examples and teachings of Christ. putting faith in action. - **Courage** - fostering the ability to freely express truth, bravely speaking the truth in a prudent - **Interiority** - inner-directed relationship (relationship with the self) - **Humility** - we strive to accept our reality and sacredness in us and of others, allowing us to recognize and appreciate our strengths and limitations. - **Lesson 2: Foundations of Christian Morality** - Man created in the image of God - **"Imago Dei"** **What is Morality?** \- principle concerning the distinction between good and evil. \- a particular system of values and principles of conduct **Christian Morality** \- [living moral lives in the light of Christian Faith.] \- the faith lived in the daily circumstances of life. \- it focuses on man's response to God who created him out of love. \- The Christian moral life is one that seeks to cultivate and practice virtue. "A virtue is a habitual and firm disposition to do good. It allows the person not only to perform good acts, but to give the best of himself" -CCC 1803. **Building Blocks of Christian Morality** - **Building Block No. 1: Created in the Image of God *(Imago Dei)*** What does it mean to be created in the image of God? \- So, God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female, He created them. (Genesis 1:27) \- In creating man, [God blessed the man with Intellect in Will]. **Intellect** \- we can distinguish good from bad \- Spiritual Power of cognition; knowing reality in non-material way. \- It is possessed by human beings, disembodied souls, and spirits both angelic and demonic. **Will** \- we can freely choose to follow God's law of love \- Freedom is the power, rooted in reason and will, to act or not to act, to do this or that, and so to perform deliberate actions on one\'s own responsibility. CCC 1731 \- man can use his or her will for or against God, to disobey him. **Due to the Original Sin** \- our minds suffer from a certain darkness \- our will is weakened making it difficult for us to choose what is right and good. - **Building Block No. 2: Men are created for the Beautitude or Happiness** Why did God create man? \- vocation of beatitude \- beatitudes confront us with decisive choices concerning earthly goods; they purify our hearts in order to teach us to love God above all things. CCC 1728\ - the key to happiness is following the law of love as spelled out in the Ten Commandments, the beatitudes and the teachings of the Church. **8 Beatitudes of Jesus**  **Eudaimonia** \- for Aristotle, a good life will be one lived in accordance with reason, which entails cultivating one\'s virtues. **Difference between Happiness and Eudaimonia:** \- *Happiness* is often associated with pleasantness or contentment in everyday discourse. \- *Eudaimonia* is about living well, which emphasizes living rationally rather than pleasantly. - **Building Block No. 3: Responsible Use of Freedom** \- freedom is not the freedom to do what we want, but to do as we ought as creatures of God. \- the more we follow God's path, the freer we become. \- freedom makes man responsible for his acts to the extent that they are voluntary. CCC 1734 \- freedom is diminished or nullified due to ignorance, fear, or other psychological factors. - **Lesson 3: Building Blocks 4 and 5** - **Building Block No. 4: Three Elements of a Moral Act** \- **Freedom** - makes man a moral subject \- **Human Acts** - acts that arr54rgf5e freely chosen 1. **The Act** \- the object chosen \- act of the will 2. **Intention** \- purpose pursued in the action - **Good Intention** - can never make an intrinsically evil act good. - **Bad Intention** - it can turn a good deed into an evil one. 3. **Circumstances** \- contribute to increasing or diminishing the moral goodness or evil of human acts. - **Building Blocks No. 5: Formation of Conscience** \- **Conscience** - a judgement of reason whereby the human person recognizes the moral quality of a concrete act that he is going to perform, is in the process of performing, or has already completed. (C1778) - **8 Types of Conscience** 1. **True or Correct** \- acts in accordance with the word of God ex. The Ten Commandments 2. **Erroneous** \- contrary to God's word and the teachings of the Church ex. Divorce 3. **Bad** \- it has no regard for objective truth ex. Live in, Murder 4. **Weak** \- may know what is right but has not the courage or spiritual power to do what is right ex. Witnessing violation 5. **Scrupulous** \- one thinks that it is sinning when in fact it is not 6. **Lax** \- insensitive ex. Racist 7. **Rebellious** \- shows little or no respect for Church teaching ex. Abortion, Pre-marital sex 8. **Formed** \- one that has sought to inform and educate itself about a particular moral issue - **Lesson 4: Building Block 6: Reality of Sin and God's Mercy** - **Building Block No. 6: Reality of Sin and God's Mercy** - **Sin** \- It is our failure to live the Great Commandment to love God, others and self. \- It includes breaking God's laws by doing what is wrong, or unrighteous, in God's sight. (1 John 3:4; 5: 17) \- Separating us from God - **Mortal Sin** \- It destroys charity in the heart of man\... it turns us away from God. (CCC 1855). **A mortal sin requires three conditions:** 1. **Grave matter**: e.g., murder, adultery, rape, torture 2. **Full knowledge**: we clearly know that our action is gravefully sinful. 3. **Full consent of the will**: we freely and under duress choose to do evil. - **Venial Sin** \- Venial sin wounds but does not destroy our relationship with God. "All wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin that is not deadly" \- It is important to bear in mind that venial sins can easily lead to mortal sin unless they are held in check. - **The 7 Capital Sins** 1. **Pride** \- It is an excessive love of self or the desire to be better or more important than others. 2. **Greed** \- an excessive pursuit of material goods 3. **Envy** \- the intense desire to have an item that someone else possesses. 4. **Wrath** \- a strong anger and hate towards another person 5. **Sloth** \- an excessive laziness or the failure to act and utilize one's talents 6. **Lust** \- an intense desire, usually for sexual pleasure, but also for money, power or fame. 7. **Gluttony** \- an excessive and ongoing eating of food or drink. - **Social Sin** \- Social sin resides within a group or a community of people. It exists within any structure in society that oppresses human beings, violates human dignity, stifles freedom and/or imposes great inequity. - **God's Mercy** \- "Where sin increased, grace abounded all the more" (Rom 5:18) \- To receive God's mercy we must first sincerely repent of sin. - **Lesson 5: Building Block No. 7: Cardinal and Theological Virtues** - **Building Block No. 7: Cardinal and Theological Virtues** - **Virtue** \- a habitual and firm disposition to do the good. It allows the person not only to perform good acts, but to give the best of himself. The virtuous person tends toward the good with all his sensory and spiritual powers; he pursues the good and chooses it in concrete actions. - **Types of Virtues** 1. **Human Virtue** \- are firm attitudes, stable dispositions, habitual perfections of intellect and will that govern our actions, order our passions, and guide our conduct according to reason and faith. - **Cardinal Virtue** \- the term "cardinal" comes from the Latin word cardo meaning hinge. \- All human virtues are related to or hinged to one of the cardinal virtues. The four cardinal virtues are [prudence, justice, fortitude and temperance.] 1. **Prudence** - the virtue that disposes practical reason to discern our true good in every circumstance and to choose the right means of achieving it. - [Natural Virtue of Prudence] - [Supernatural Virtue of Prudence] 2. **Justice** - the moral virtue that consists in the constant and firm will to give their due to God and neighbor. 3. **Fortitude** - the moral virtue that ensures firmness in difficulties and constancy in the pursuit of the good. 4. **Temperance** - the moral virtue that moderates the attraction of pleasures and provides balance in the use of created goods. 2. **Theological Virtue** \- are the foundation of Christian moral activity; they animate it and give it its special character. \- They inform and give life to all the moral virtues. They are infused by God into the souls of the faithful to make them capable of acting as his children and of meriting eternal life. 1. **Faith** - the theological virtue by which we believe in God and believe all that he has said and revealed to us, and that Holy Church proposes for our belief, because he is truth itself. \- The gift of faith remains in one who has not sinned against it. 2. **Hope** - the theological virtue by which we desire the kingdom of heaven and eternal life as our happiness, placing our trust in Christ\'s promises and relying not on our own strength, but on the help of the grace of the Holy Spirit. 3. **Love** - Charity is the theological virtue by which we love God above all things for his own sake, and our neighbor as ourselves for the love of God. 4. **The Gifts and Fruit of the Holy Spirit** - The seven gifts of the Holy Spirit are [wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, and fear of the Lord.] \- They complete and perfect the virtues of those who receive them.