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Talk about the following :. How would you define law? What is freedom? Is morality something you find freeing? Why or Why not? Do you consider following the moral teachings of the Church following a law or living in freedom? Why or Why not?. LAW:.

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  1. Talk about the following : • How would you define law? • What is freedom? • Is morality something you find freeing? Why or Why not? • Do you consider following the moral teachings of the Church following a law or living in freedom? Why or Why not?

  2. LAW: • a rule or order that it is advisable or obligatory to observe

  3. FREEDOM: • The power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint.

  4. Is morality freeing? Why or Why not?

  5. By a show of hands, who considers following the moral teachings of the Church following a law? Why?

  6. I am the LORD your God…You shall not have other gods beside me. • You shall not make for yourself an idols or a likeness of anything* in the heavens above or on the earth below or in the waters beneath the earth; you shall not bow down before them or serve them. • You shall not invoke the name of the LORD, your God, in vain. • Remember the Sabbath day—keep it holy. • Honor your father and your mother, that you may have a long life in the land the LORD your God is giving you • You shall not kill. • You shall not commit adultery. • You shall not steal. • You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. • You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, his male or female slave, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor. • Exodus 20: 2-17 NABRE

  7. LAW BASED MORALITY • Morality that solely follows a list of rules.

  8. “Owe nothing to anyone, except to love one another; for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. • The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery; you shall not kill; you shall not steal; you shall not covet,” and whatever other commandment there may be, are summed up in this saying, [namely] “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” • Love does no evil to the neighbor; hence, love is the fulfillment of the law.” ROMANS 13:8-10 NABRE

  9. “I give you a new commandment: love one another. As I have loved you, so you also should love one another.” • John 13:34 • NABRE

  10. How do you define love?

  11. Storge • Philia • Eros • Agape

  12. When Jesus says Love one another as I have loved you, what does Jesus mean by love?

  13. “Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill… • I tell you, unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter into the kingdom of heaven.” • Matthew 5: 17 & 20 NABRE

  14. Freedom Based morality • Morality that is lived out in love.

  15. SIN Commission vs. Omission

  16. At the End of the Day Clip

  17. Does Jean ValJean commit a Sin by not doing anything about Fantine Getting kicked out?

  18. Are sins only something we commit? Or is there another way to sin?

  19. Sin of Commission • --To commit an offense or violation • --something we do

  20. Sin of omission • --a failure to do something one can and ought to do

  21. The Confiteor • “I confess to almighty God, and to you, my brothers and sisters, that I have greatly sinned in my thoughts and in my words, in what I have done and in what I have failed to do…”

  22. Examples

  23. Judgment Culpability Versus Actions

  24. Culpability • --The amount that one is responsible for the sins they committed

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