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    Yourlife CH5

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    The document discusses how to properly form one's conscience through learning God's moral standards, praying for strength, and making conscientious decisions that are not based on feelings, majority opinion, or instinct but rather on thorough discernment and God's law. It also addresses the importance of obeying one's properly formed conscience, avoiding erroneous judgment through invincible or vincible ignorance, and combating peer pressure through knowing one's principles and growing in virtues like fortitude.

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    The document discusses how to properly form one's conscience through learning God's moral standards, praying for strength, and making conscientious decisions that are not based on feelings, majority opinion, or instinct but rather on thorough discernment and God's law. It also addresses the importance of obeying one's properly formed conscience, avoiding erroneous judgment through invincible or vincible ignorance, and combating peer pressure through knowing one's principles and growing in virtues like fortitude.

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    The document discusses how to properly form one's conscience through learning God's moral standards, praying for strength, and making conscientious decisions that are not based on feelings, majority opinion, or instinct but rather on thorough discernment and God's law. It also addresses the importance of obeying one's properly formed conscience, avoiding erroneous judgment through invincible or vincible ignorance, and combating peer pressure through knowing one's principles and growing in virtues like fortitude.

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    The key takeaways are that conscience is a law written on our hearts by God that guides us to do good and avoid evil. It must be properly formed by learning God's standards, prayer, and examining our actions.

    Conscience is a divine law that reveals what is right and wrong and calls us to love God and our neighbor. It is formed by studying moral sources, deliberating on what we've learned, acting accordingly, and evaluating our actions through prayer.

    Conscience is not majority opinion, feelings, our superego, gut instincts, or just guilt. It comes from within and is based on God's law.

    CHAPTER 5

    Chapter 5

    Conscience
    Formation
    How do we form
    our conscience?
    1. Learn God’s standard.
    2. Pray for the strength to
    follow God’s standards.

    Conscientious Decisions
    What Conscience Why not?
    What is is NOT
    Not majority Doing what the crowd thinks is right surrenders
    conscience opinion responsibility to group and not self.
    NOT Not a feeing Feelings may be out of touch with what is right
    or wrong.
    Not superego Conscience is the forefront of who you are
    based on God’s Law, not a hidden set of rules.
    Because of this,
    I always strive Not a gut instinct A decision based on conscience is more
    to keep my thorough and accurate than a gut reaction.
    conscience clear Not Jiminy Cricket Conscience does not come outside of yourself.
    before God and
    Not Just Guilt Denial of conscience leads to death of morality.
    man.
    Acts 24:16 What is Conscience?
    NOT A FEELING NOT SUPEREGO

    CONSCIENCE

    NOT “JIMINY
    NOT A GUT INSTINCT
    CRICKET"
    What is Conscience?
    What Is Conscience?
    • Conscience is a law written on your heart by God.
    • Conscience always summons you to do good and avoid evil.
    • Conscience must be obeyed; you will be judged according to how you
    follow your conscience.
    • Conscience is the “most secret core and sanctuary” of your being,
    where you are alone with God.
    • Conscience reveals divine law that you fulfill by love of God and love
    of neighbor.

    What is Conscience?
    • Deep in your
    conscience you can
    hear God’s invitation to
    Relationship be who you are called
    with God
    to be.
    • You are created in the
    image of God.

    • There is an awareness
    Awareness of good and evil.
    of God’s call
    to Love • Love God and your
    neighbor as yourself.

    • Conscience urges you


    to do good.
    Practical • It keeps you from doing
    Judgment of evil.
    the Intellect • It guides you in actions.
    • It judges actions as
    good or evil. What is Conscience?
    SEER METHOD
    Catholics must always form and keep informing
    their conscience and obey certain conscience
    Study from the Choose the right course
    appropriate sources of action. Through
    and deliberate on what prayer you can ask God
    you have learned. to help you decide.

    Put what you have Evaluate and reflect on


    decided into action. the on the actions you
    Follow through and do already performed.
    what your conscience
    tells you to do.

    How to Form Your Conscience?


    Examination of Conscience

    An honest, prayerful assessment of


    how well you have lived God’s
    covenant of love. This examination
    leads you to accept responsibility for
    your sins and to realize your need for
    God’s merciful forgiveness.

    How to Form Your Conscience?


    Certain versus Uncertain Conscience
    • You must always follow your certain conscience.

    • If your conscience is uncertain, it is a sign you must pursue


    conscience formation further

    Note: You will not be held morally culpable if when you made the decision you
    had done everything you could to form your conscience.

    Avoiding Erroneous Judgment


    Invincible Ignorance Vincible Ignorance
    Ignorance about the Ignorance about the
    rightness or wrongness of an rightness or wrongness of
    action in which one is not an action in which one is
    morally culpable. Despite a morally culpable. This kind
    person’s reasonable effort in of ignorance is vincible—
    seeking the truth, the that is, “capable of being
    ignorance was invincible— overcome” if the person
    that is, “incapable of being had diligently sought the
    overcome.” truth.

    Avoiding Erroneous Judgment


    Individual Conscience: It is by the judgment of
    your conscience that you perceive divine law.

    Primacy of Conscience: Decisions must be free.


    You are responsible for informing your
    conscience.

    GOD’S LAW is the final Judge of what is right


    and wrong.

    Avoiding Erroneous Judgment


    Types of Peer Pressure

    Neutral
    Negative
    Positive

    Peer Pressure and Conscience


    Four Ways to Combat Peer Pressure

    Learn effective ways to


    Know your standards.
    say no.

    Peer Pressure

    Stay away from situations


    Pray.
    that might tempt you.
    Peer Pressure and Conscience
    Grow in the Virtue of Fortitude

    Self-Denial: Offer up inconveniences to God.


    Prayer: Pray daily to ask for the Lord’s support as you surrender your
    principles.
    Service: Help someone less fortunate than you.

    Peer Pressure and Conscience


    Assignment
    Think of a time
    when you had to
    combat peer
    pressure in order
    to follow your
    conscience. How
    did the virtues of
    fortitude assist
    you?

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