Unit 3- Commandments 1-4 and Cardinal Virtues

Faith

Helps us to say “yes“ to God/allows us to believe everything that God has revealed

Ways to destroy Faith

Voluntary Doubt, incredulity, Involuntary doubt, heresy, apostasy, schism

Voluntary doubt and incredulity

Ignores or refuses to believe what God has revealed or the church teaches us to believe.

Involuntary doubt

Hesitation in believing, difficulty overcoming objections, anxiety caused by obscurity--If deliberately cultivated, can lead to spiritual blindness

Heresy

The outright denial by baptized persons of some essential truth which we must believe with faith.

Apostacy

The total rejection of the Christian faith

Schism

The refusal to submit to the pope’s authority or to remain in union with members of the church

Hope

Gives us confidence that God keeps his promises and that He continues to offer us the promise of perfect love and happiness with Him in heaven.

Violations of Hope

Despair, Presumptions

Despair

Losing hope that God can save us, give us help to attain heaven, or forgive our sins—a total lack of trust in God

Presumption

Assuming we can save ourselves without God’s help

Charity

The mother of all virtues, Agape- greek word meaning selfless giving. Live it out y ovediene, prayer, sacrifice, loving those in my everyday.

Violations of Chartiy

Indifference, Ingratitude, Luke warmness, Acedia, Hatred of God

Indifference

Neglecting or refusing to acknowledge God’s goodness and power in our livesIn

Ingratitude

Failure to acknowledge God’s love and give Him love in return

Luke warmness

Hesitation or negligence in responding to God’s love—it might affect our personal relationship with God, or our lovingness toward others

Acedia

Spiritual Sloth—refuses the joy offered by God and can even be repelled by goodness

Hatred of God

The result of pride—contrary to loving God, denies His goodness, and is resentful because he forbids sins and inflicts punishment

Sins against the 1st commandment

Superstition, idolatry, irreligion, Sacrilege, Simony, Atheism, Agnosticism

Superstition

deviation of religious feeling and of the practices this feeling imposes,

Idolatry(Against 1st commandment)

False pagan worship, Constant temptation to divinize what is not God

Irreligion(Against the 1st commandment)

Tempting God in words or deeds, sacrilege and simonty

Sacrilege (Against the 1st commandment)

Profaning or treating unworthily the sacraments and other liturgical actions.

Simony (Against the 1st commandments)

Buying or selling of spiritual things.

Atheism(Against the 1st commandment)

False conception of human autonomy of refusing anny dependence of God.

Agnosticism (Against the 1st commandment)

Makes no judgment about God’s existence declaring it is impossible to prove, or even affirm or deny.