Formation of Moral Conscience based on Natural Moral Law

​Christian Living

Verse of the day

​Reminders

• IRF Sheet

• Activity 3

• Assessment 1

Multiple Choice

What makes us “like God”?

• Freedom

• Human Physical Features

• Ability to Walk

• Ability to Create New Things

Formation of Moral Conscience

based on Natural Moral Law

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​LEARNING TARGET

Describe the characteristics of a well-formed Christian conscience.​

​LEARNING COMPETENCY

Objectives

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​1. I can identify the expressions of Moral Law.

2. I can explain the effects of precepts of Natural Moral Law as presented by St. Thomas Aquinas.

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moral conscience

Open Ended

What is law?

The law is one basis of how we assess whether something is good or bad, acceptable or not. In this activity we will find out the different expressions of moral law, which is the set of norms that influence morality.

​Divine Law	Church/Sharia Law​	Civil Law​
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​Divine Law	Church/Sharia Law​	Civil Law​
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​Did your answers align correctly?

process questions

Open Ended

1. Can you see any similarities between the different expressions of Moral Law? How about the differences?

​St. Thomas Aquinas wrote on Natural Moral Law “The first principle of the natural law is ‘good is to be done and pursued, and evil avoided."​

Open Ended

2. How can the first precept of Natural Law affect your actions and decisions?

​Letter of St. Paul to the Romans 2: 13-14

 For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God’s sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous. (Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law.

Open Ended

Questions

Poll

I can identify the expressions of Moral Law.

• Yes

• No

Poll

I can explain the effects of precepts of Natural Moral Law as presented by St. Thomas Aquinas.

• Yes

• No

Multiple Choice

What is the First Precept of Natural Law?

• Natural law is knowable by reasoning

• Good is to be done and evil avoided

• Natural law is intrinsic

Activity 6: Conscience Metaphor – Frayer Model

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​Instruction

​1. Analyze the quotes below which describe conscience in different metaphors.

2. Give a unique definition and description of conscience.

3. Do this by completing the Frayer Model below.

4. Draw and complete the Frayer Model in your Big Notebooks.

5. Formulate your own metaphorical description of conscience. You can relate it to your Frayer Model.

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