Your Life in Christ Chapter 5 Worksheet.

An accurate understanding of conscience is judging something as right or wrong based on whether or not it makes us feel good or bad.

False.

Christ speaks through the Magisterium

True

Forming a good conscience not only helps one live a moral life but also to live a happy life as well.

True

Conscience uses both intellect and instinct to figure out how to live morally.

False.

Educating one’s conscience means focusing on the person and teaching of Jesus Christ while being attentive to the authoritative teaching of the Church.

True.

A well-formed conscience cannot make mistakes.

False.

Individual conscience is the final judge of what is morally right.

False

We will not be held morally culpable for erroneous moral decisions if we have done everything necessary to form our conscience.

True.

Evil consequences cannot result from the actions of someone who is not morally culpable for his or her actions.

False.

The spiritual disciplines will help us grow in the virtue of fortitude; self-denial, prayer, and service.

False

The formation of one’s conscience takes

D; A lifetime.

Two key sources of conscience formation for Catholics, in addition to reading and praying with Scripture is;

The Church’s magisterial.

Some people deny the existence of a personal conscience, posting that the idea of conscience is;

C; No more than an attempt to control people through guilt.

There are four practical tasks of conscience. Which is not one of these?

B; Promoting a sense of shame for violating conscience

Developing a spiritual discipline includes

Acquiring virtues, identifying bad habits, conquering vices.

D; ALL OF THE ABOVE.

The chapter emphasizes the need for ___ as an important step towards choosing the right course of action.

C; Prayer

What is an important part of the contrition necessary for receiving the Sacrament of Penance.

A; An examination of conscience.

A factor that can lead to an erroneous judgement of conscience is;

Ignorance of Christ and his Gospel, lack of true repentance, the bad example of other people.

D; ALL OF THE ABOVE.

One reason conscience cannot be made good without the help of faith is due to;

A; Original Sin.

____ means that no one may force us to ac t contrary to our conscience

B; The primacy of conscience.

Another word for ‘seer’

D; Prophet

A term that means to make sacrifices.

"I; Self-Denial

What feels right at the moment

E; Gut instinct

The word martyr comes from this word

A; Witness

Joining with others to apply the object norms of morality to issues that affect the common good

G; Collective conscience

The habit of laziness

B; Sloth

A word that means putting what you have decided into action

H; Execution.

Freud’s description of the subconscious

C; Supergo

“Incapable of being overcome”

F; Invincible

“Capable of being overcome.”

J; Vincible

______ is a practical judgement of reason that helps a person decide the goodness or evil of an action.

Conscience

A ____ is a bad habits that inclines you to choose evil rather than good.

Vice

A _____ is a good habit that empowers you to do good with ease.

Virtue.

The S in S E E R stands for ___ the facts

Study

The R in S E E R stands for ____ your decision

Review

____ is ignorance about the rightness or wrongness of an action in which one is morally culpable

vincible

____ is ignorance about the rightness or wrongness of an action in which one is not morally culpable.

Invincible

An ________ is an honest, prayerful assessment of how one has lived God’s covenant.

Examination of Conscience.