Intro to Theo presentation

Positive Relationships with persons

Wants us to become the best version of ourselves - Ex: friends, family, teachers, priests, God, The Holy Trinity

Negative realationshps with persons

wants us to serves their needs and desires - Ex: bullies, dictators, gangs, the devil

relationships with things

are neutral - neither positive nor negative- they are meant to be used

Therese of Lisieux

youngest doctor of the church “I will spend my heaven doing good on Earth”

Pius X

“restore all things in Christ”

st. Thomas

gave us greatest proffesion of faith “my lord and my god” he doubted the resurrection of jesus

Peter

“Lord to whom shall we go? you have the words of everlasting life” Peter anchored himself onto Christ

Mary

Humbly did what god wanted her to do

St. Augustine of hippo

“ You are what you eat”

what did jesus say?

“i am the way the truth and the life”

Gianna Molla

she chose life for her unborn child. her husband and 4 kids were present when John Paul declared her a saint.

Venerable fulton j sheen

from 1930s-1920s he was the voice of the catholic church in the United States through radio, tv, and the written word.

popularity

wanting to win everyone else’s approval, to fit in, to be accepted at any cost

what counters popularity?

humility

consumerism

society and advertising push us to seek and acquire new products “cornucopia kids”

what counters consumerism?

poverty = detachment from stuff

extreme indiviualism

sense of responsibility to others and to the community as a whole is lost: selflishness

whats justice?

giving us what is do

immediate gradifaction

expect and want our wants to be met right now

what counters immediate gradifaction?

paitence = endurance without complaint, loss of temper or irritation

sexual intermissiveness

lonlieness and longing will go away if we find sexual satfisfaction

what counters sexual intermissveness?

chasity

what is chasity?

virtue that moderates the desire for sexual pleasure according to the principles of faith and right reason.

what is hedonism

pleasure is the ultimate goal and aim of life: it’s motto is “if it feels good, do it!”

what counters hedonism?

temperance

what is temperance

minimalism

seeking to put forward the minimum effort to receive the maximum reward: “what’s the least i can do?”

what virtue counters minimalism?

dilligence

what is dilligence?

carefulness and persistent effort for work

moral relativism

what is true for one is not true for everyone…. for me

what virtue counters moral relativism?

supernatural faith

what is supernatural faith?

there is absolute faith (Jesus) and there is divine standard. virtue and morality revolve around this. we either cooperate with God’s will or not. we are to love God and love ourselves with our whole being neighbors as ourselves.