Theology III Final

Secular Definition of Morality

• Choices of right and wrong are decided based on what would fulfill one’s own desire first

Catholic Definition of Morality

• Decisions are made based off of Catholic teaching but also self-experience

Definition of the Common Good

• We ensure the common good by making sure that all person's’ basic needs are met

SMART Goals

• S = Specific, helps you have an exact idea of what you want

• M = Measurable, set clear benchmarks/steps, allows you to track your progress/process

• A = Attainable = Will you be able to reasonably achieve this goal? Is it possible?

• R = Relevant, relates to your life currently (in the present)

• T = Timely, When’s the end date? Set checkpoints and endpoints

Non moral

• The choice you made has no reflection on morals

  • Drinking milk in the morning

Amoral

• Lacking concern for morals, they just do not care or don’t know

  • Bumping into someone without apologizing

    • Baby stealing candy

Immoral

• Goes against accepted values

Moral Dilemma

• Exists when all choices and obligations do not allow for moral outcomes

Legality Morality

• Laws may be used to pinpoint or require behavior based on society’s collective judgement of whether it is moral

Natural law

• Morals that can be understood through reason

• “We hold these truths to be self evident”

• Everyone has a natural sense that ‘good is to be done and evil to be avoided’

Human Law

• Everyday rules that govern our lives

Legality Morality

• ‘Wet Paint - Don’t Touch’

• General rules we create

Natural Moral Law

• An expression of God’s love does not change over time. Regardless of culture or religion, common principles bind us together.

Golden Rule

• Trust others as you would want to be treated

• Common rule without religions

Old Law

• Divine Law revealed in the OT summarized in the 10 Commandments

Decalogue

• The Ten Commandments

• Ten Words

New Law

• Fulfillment and completion of the Old Law through the life and teaching of Jesus

• Law of Love

Definition of Ego

• Your own self worth or perception

• Id - instincts (Steal food when hungry)

• Ego - Reality (Want to steal food, don’t wanna be judged)

• Superego - Morality (Want to steal food, don’t wanna be judged)

Defense Mechanisms

• To protect the ego from feeling painful emotions like shame, guilt, or anxiety

Projection

• A person shifts the blame and his/her personality for his/her actions or thoughts to another person

• Bill blames the instructor for a bad grade when he didn’t study

Regression

• Engaging in behavior characteristic of an earlier stage of development

Denial

• Ignoring or refusing to believe/accept an unpleasant reality; thus blocking external events from awareness

Displacement

• Redirection of an impulse (usually aggression) onto a powerless substitute target

• Taking out your anger with your parent on your sister

Eyewitnesses

• They were either eye witnesses, as in the case of John and Matthew, or close associates of eye witnesses. Mark was a disciple of peter and Luke was a companion of Paul.

Hypostatic Union

• 100% man, 100% divine

Mary’s parents

• Old in age

• Devote themselves to rigorous prayer and fasting

• St. Anne and Joachim

Temple Virgin

• Sewing and creating vestments

• Vow of chastity

• Weaving the veil of the temple

• Washing of the priests’ vestments

• Liturgical prayer

• Preparing liturgical linen

• At 14, they can get married

The Ultimate Gift

• Gift of money - card declines

• Gift of learning - making books/fence

• Gift of problems - lost house/car

• Gift of family - Emily and Alexia

• Gift of laughter - Salud scene at Ecaudor

• Gift of dreams - help others fulfill dreams

• Gift of giving - helping Alexia with rent

• Gift of gratitude - praying rent

• Gift of a day - horseback riding day

• Gift of love - “Love you, son”

Pride

• The latin term for Pride - superbia

• The proud person thinks he or she is above the normal demands of human living

• Dismisses divine assistance from God

Envy

• A sad and unhealthy mindset where you tell God he made a mistake in how He distributed blessings and gifts in the world

• Like Jason

Wrath

• Comes from a good place, lesser deadly sin, intention matters

Sloth

• Very misunderstood and only got the term “lazy” about 500 years ago

• Originally - being so busy that one didn’t make time for what is really important

Avarice

• Fancy word for Greed

• Disordered use of material goods

Gluttony

• Eating too much, improper time, too eagerly, too expensively

Lust

• Desiring and thinking about your neighbor’s wife in an lustful way

• Satisfying your own desires, short-term, fades quickly

Lax Conscience

• You see no sin where there actually is sin

• “Relaxed”

• Moral judgment is dulled or weakened

Erroneous Conscience

• Judges someone incorrectly, formed incorrectly, didn’t know it was bad

• “Error”

• -Isms - sexism, racism, etc.

Informed Conscience

• One that has been educated or chooses to educate oneself before making a choice

Delicate Conscience

• Using the Bible for answers

Scrupulous Conscience

• A person who sees wrong where there is none

• Excessive worry and anxiety about morality, often leading to an inability to distinguish between moral and venial sin

Callous Conscience

• Lack of empathy, compassion, and concern for others and destined to wrondoing

Desensitized Conscience

• We are desensitized to immoral things around us

• So used to sinning we’re not realizing it’s bad

Empathy

• The ability to understand and share feelings with another person

Sympathy v. Empathy

• Sympathy - feeling concern for someone

• Empathy - putting yourself in someone else’s shoes

Science of Empathy

• Empathy - thinking & feeling

• Cognitive - thinking

• Affective - feeling

Gold Key

• power of the Pope reaches Heaven

Key handle

• the handles of the keys at the base symbolize the power in the hands of the pope

Red Cord

• the 2 keys tied together with a chord, indicating the linking between the two aspects of the pope’s power

Tiara of 3 crowns

• Priest, prophet, kingShie

Shield

• Blue shield - dignity

JP II

• Flag has an “M” - devotion to Mary

• Flag has a cross - for Jesus

Pope Francis

• Motto - abbreviated Bible verse about Jesus’ virtue to Matthew

  • We must look with mercy

• IHS - society of Jesus

• Star - Mary

• Grapes - Joseph

Papal Conclave

• Conclave - “with keys” or “lockable room”

• Literally locked in from the outside world, don’t leave until next Pope is chosen (in a building)

• Lock themselves out from the world to elect the Pope God wants, not the Pope the world wants

• Takes place inside the Sistene Chapel

Pope is the Vicar of Christ

• acts as Christ’s human representative on Earth

• is a sign of the Church’s unity and its beliefs

Conclave

• 1st - Enter the Sistene Chapel

• 2nd - Celebrate Mass

• 3rd - Rules are explained

  • oath of secrecy

  • ballot

  • cannot vote for themself

Scrutineers

• 3 random Cardinals are chosen to count the ballots

• they read the names out loud and puncture the ballots

Infirmarii

• 3 random Cardinals can bring ballots to Cardinals too sick to join

Revisors

• 3 Random Cardinals count the work of the Scrutineers

• If they counted wrong, votes are burned and they have to recountRu

Rules

• 2/3 + 1 vote

• 1 vote made at the end of day one

• 4 votes made the next day (2 morning, 2 afternoon)

• Continue until you get a new pope

• Cardinals under 80 vote

• Any man over 35 can be picked as pope