"Human Persons, Free Will and Fidelity To God": Quarter 2

CLE 10
MODULE 7-8
Quarter 2
LESSON 8
“Human Persons, Free Will

and Fidelity To God”
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NAME:
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Learning Competencies
The learner should be able to:

Doctrine: explain how freedom emanates from the dignity of human
person.
Morals: Share with someone the ways by which he/she can help others
mature as moral persons living in freedom and faithfulness
to Christ.
Worship: Pray for guidance for a responsible use of freedom.
I-Pray Lord, I’m here today with open hands and an open heart, ready to
depend on You to help me through the day and all it will bring my
way. Help me be like Nehemiah, help me come to You for guidance,
strength, provision, and protection. As I face challenges, help me
remember that I am loved, help me remember that I am Your child
and Your representative to the world around me. Help me live today
in a way that brings honor to Your holy name. This I ask of You, in
the name of Your Son Jesus. Amen.
I-See What Do I See? Song Analysis: Who Am I (Casting Crowns)
Who am I, that the Lord of all the earth.

Would care to know my name
Would care to feel my heart?
Who am
I, that the bright and morning star
Would choose to light the way,
For my ever wandering heart?
Not because of who I am.
But because of what you’ve done
Not because of what I’ve done.
But because of who you are
I am a flower quickly fading,
Here today and gone tomorrow
A wave tossed in the ocean.
A vapor in the wind
Still you hear me when I’m calling
Lord, you catch me when I’m falling.
And you’ve told me who I am, I am yours
Who am I, that the eyes that see my sin.
Would look on me with love.
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And watch me rise again?
Who am I, that the voice that calmed the sea.
Would call out through the rain.
And calm the storm in me? Not because of who I am.
But because of what you’ve done because of what I’ve done.
But because of who you are I am a flower quickly fading.
A wave tossed in the ocean. A vapor in the wind.
Still you hear me when I’m calling.
Lord, you catch me when I’m falling,
And you’ve told me who I am, I am yours
Not because of who I am. But because of what you’ve done.
Not because of what I’ve done,
But because of who you are. I am a flower quickly fading.
A wave tossed in the ocean. A vapor in the wind.
Still you hear me when I’m calling
Lord, you catch me when I’m falling.
And you’ve told me who I am. I am yours. I am yours
I am yours. Whom shall I fear, whom shall I fear?
‘Cause I am yours. I am yours
I-Listen What Do I Hear?

a. What does the Bible say?
The scriptures teach us that the persons are created by God in His
image and likeness. We believe that all persons are called to be children of
God, destined for Eternal life of blessed communion with the Father, His
Son, our Risen Lord. Jesus taught us that our basic dignity as human
persons (pagkatao) depends not on any measurable worldly standard but
rather on God, who loves us unconditionally and calls us to love in return.
God’s love for all human person is the basis of our fundamental human
dignity. Our basic dignity is not something we produce, or something
conferred on us by any individual or by society. God created us with dignity
simply because he loves us. Let us be more inspired to live freely our life
with dignity in this lesson.
O Lord, our Lord,
how awesome is Your name through all the earth!
You have set Your majesty above the heavens!
Out of the mouths of babes and infants
You have drawn a defense against Your foes,
to silence enemy and avenger.
When I see your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars that You set in place—
What are humans that You are mindful of them,
mere mortals that You care for them?

You have made them a little less than a god,
crowned them with glory and honor.
You have given them rule over the works of your hands,
put all the things at their feet:
All sheep and oxen, even the beasts of the field,
the birds of the air, the fish of the sea,
and whatever swims the paths of the seas.
O Lord, our Lord, how awesome is Your name through all the earth!
b) What does the Church teach?
The church teaches us that we humans are essentially good, and this
goodness in us to be shared with others. We need to relate first and
foremost with ourselves then with human beings and even with nature, that
is, with other created beings.
God created the human person as a rational being, conferring on him
the dignity of an individual who can initiate and control his actions. God
willed that human being should be left in the hand of his own counsel so
that he might of his own accord, seek his Creator freely attain his full
perfection by cleaving to Him. Human being is rational and therefore, like
God. He is created with free will and is master over his acts.
Constituent Principles of Human Acts
 Knowledge
The will can decide for something and seek it only if it is first
known. A person cannot will without knowing what object he/she is
concerned with, without having mastered the object. Therefore,
conscious of the act, he/she performs in order to realize the aim, without
evaluating the action in its concrete nature as a desirable good or
undesirable evil. Such appraisal also includes the judgment on the moral
value of the act.
 Freedom
If a person, for some reason, is not free to choose what he/she
likes according to his/her insight and will and has to act against his/her
will, his/her action is not free and consequently not a human act. Hence, as
a second essential condition for a human act, consent of the free will is
required, which implies freedom from any external or internal compulsion.
 Voluntariness
Note that anything that is an object of the will is called “willed”
(volitum). But not anything that is willed is necessarily an effect of the will.
When what is willed is both the object and the effect of the will, we call it

voluntary (voluntarium). In short, the voluntariness of the human act is
determined by the will or the intention of the agent.
How do we know if the freedom we enjoy is authentic?
Authentic human freedom is a shared capacity with others in the community

for choosing – not anything at all – but what is the good, in order to become
our true selves
It involves both:
 freedom from whatever opposes our true self-becoming with
others in community, and
 freedom for growing as full persons before God and our fellow
human persons, in authentic love.
We experience human freedom most naturally in our free choices to act or

not to act, to do or not to do something. We accept responsibility for these
acts.
Beside our individual free acts there is the freedom of our very self-formed
gradually by our free acts.
Often called “fundamental freedom” or option, it is not primarily a psychological term,

but rather refers to our “moral being” as a human person (CCC 1720-1721).
CCC 1742 tells us that the grace of Christ is not in the slightest way a
rival of our freedom when this freedom accords with the sense of the true
and the good that God has put in the human heart. On the contrary, as
Christian experience attests especially in prayer, the more docile we are to
the promptings of grace, the more we grow in inner freedom and
confidence during trials, such as those we face in the pressures and
constraints of the outer world. By the working of grace the Holy Spirit
educates us in spiritual freedom in order to make us free collaborators in
his work in the Church and in the world.
Albiso-Ramirez, C. & Dela Vega, J. L. (Ed.). (2018). Christian living education.
Davao Association of Catholic School.
ANSWER SHEET CLE 10 Q2 – MODULE 7-8 L 8
NAME:____________________________________ SECTION: ____________________

What Can I Say And Do?
A) How should you describe a human person whose freedom emanates from his
dignity in the following aspects?

* in his behavior and action
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* in his relationship with others
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* in his prayer life
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B.Compose a prayer asking God’s guidance for a responsible use of freedom.
Your own prayer:
C. Describe human person based on the following Bible passages and write your
personal reflection
Write the Bible Passages Description of a human person Personal Reflection
Gen 1:26
1 Cor. 8:6
1 Cor 6:19
1 Jn 3:1
Is. 43:1

Answer to the questions below. Base your answers to the song above.
(Who am I)
1. What is the song all about?
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2. What line from the song is striking for you? Why?
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3. How does the song describe a human person?
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4. What does it say about the freedom of a human being?
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5. What does it say about his faithfulness to God?
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Points for reflection: (Refer to the passages above)
1. How do you react to the reading?
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2. Are you inspired by the message? Why?
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3. How do you think God would like you to feel about yourself base from the
reading?
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CLE 10

“Human Persons, Free Will

This module belongs to:

The learner should be able to:

I-See What Do I See? Song Analysis: Who Am I (Casting Crowns)

Who am I, that the Lord of all the earth.

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I-Listen What Do I Hear?

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b) What does the Church teach?

Constituent Principles of Human Acts

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How do we know if the freedom we enjoy is authentic?

Authentic human freedom is a shared capacity with others in the community

We experience human freedom most naturally in our free choices to act or

Often called “fundamental freedom” or option, it is not primarily a psychological term,

Albiso-Ramirez, C. & Dela Vega, J. L. (Ed.). (2018). Christian living education.

Davao Association of Catholic School.

ANSWER SHEET CLE 10 Q2 – MODULE 7-8 L 8

NAME:____________________________________ SECTION: ____________________

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Your own prayer:

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