MOdule-WEEK 5 - Grade 9 RELIGION QTR-2...

Module # 5 Grade 9 RELIGION
2nd Qtr (Week 5)
A. Topic: Quarter 2: Unit 2 Understanding Basic Moral Principles

Chapter 4 Exercising Christian Conscience
B. Objectives:
Morals: Our conscience is the function of our reason that judges or discerns the moral goodness or evilness of our
acts. The act of conscience is almost always accompanied by the feeling that we must do what is good and avoid what
is evil, Our conscience is both subjective and objective. We are subject judging-our conscience is ours and no one
else’s –but we judge our concrete acts using objective moral norms.
Doctrine: Our conscience is a gift from God, who created us with intellect and free will. Besides this natural capacity,
we are empowered by Christ’s Spirit of love to develop a truly graced Christian conscience that enables us to judge
our concrete moral act in view of the teachings and life of Jesus Christ, strengthening us in doing what is good.
Worship: Our Christian conscience is nourished by personal prayer and sacramental celebration. Through personal
and liturgical prayer, we are also inspired, graced, and strengthened to truly love God and others.
C. Competencies:
A. Critique and correct some common misconceptions about conscience.
B. Discuss the nature of human conscience and how conscience actually operates.
C. Reflect on how we can educate and courageously follow our conscience.
DAY 1
INTRODUCTION:
Following Christ in true freedom entails the duty to form and follow our Christian conscience. In the last chapter, we
learned that God calls us to become truly free and fulfilled by doing morally good acts, with Christ as our perfect
exemplar and, through the Holy Spirit, our source of inner strength to do the good. We now ask ourselves: How do
we judge the goodness or evilness of our moral acts? What enables us to discern if our acts make us more human,
more truly free? What should we do to grow in this capacity and discernment and judgment? Our questions point to
God’s gift of human conscience.
Conscience Morally Obliges Us

All person have a conscience. We all have the human capacity to use our reason:
1. To discern and judge the moral goodness or evil of a particular act.

2. With the feeling of being morally obliged to do what is good and avoid what is evil.
2 dimension of Human Conscience

1. Subjective dimension of Human conscience
2. Objective of Human Conscience
Subjective dimension of Human Conscience

-> A person's norm of judging moral good or evil, It describe that an individual's conscience simply his or hers only
and no one else.
-> Only through our interaction with others do we understand the fundamental Human Values And objective norms
that guide our conscience in making moral judgments.
Objective Dimension of Human Conscience

-> Our conception is fundamental by the universal values and norms we learn from others
Values, Moral Laws & Human Conscience

-> As Embodied Persons We have many Basic Needs, Because of this Things We have the right to own things and to
protected from those who want to unjustly take our possessions.
The Seventh Commandment commands us not to steal but it is our conscience that judges whether a specific moral
act is stealing or not. Because of our Reason's ability to judge moral act we can discern that keeping the wallet is a
form of stealing and a morally evil act.
 Conscience is an aspect of our human reason that direct us to do what is good so we can live in true freedom,
God Gift of conscience rather than Enslaving us to external laws, Frees and Empowers us to apply universal
norms creativity, intelligent and responsibly to specific moral situation.
 Through our Conscience we have the capacity and duty to search for discover and judge what is good by
interpreting and creatively applying moral laws, which upholds basic human values.
Following And Forming Our Conscience

*Follow your conscience
*Form your conscience
Follow your Conscience

"in the depths of our conscience we detect A law which We did not make but which we must obey .. for there is in
our hearts a law written by God" (Gaudium et Spes 16)
-> It describe not about any man made law. Rather it refers to the God-given "Law" Built into our human nature or
reason through which we are persons-in-community and that we are morally obliged to always do the good and avoid
evil.
" When The Gentiles Who do not Have the law nature observe the prescription of the law, they are a law for
themselves even though they do not have the law. They show the demands of the law are written in their hearts,
while their conscience also bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even defend them on the day
when..God will judge people's hidden works through Christ Jesus" -Rom 2:14-16
St. Paul highlighted the importance of recognizing and following this inner law.
*we realized that our capacity to discern what should be done and our decision to do it we not the result of a mere
whim rather, the experience of our conscience is possible because of our natural human capacities of intellect and
free will exercised within social context. God endowed us with the capacity to discern, in the best light and given the
limitations of our reason, freedom, and all other faculties/. When we reject the call of our conscience, we sin.
Form Your Conscience

-> It states that our conscience is not "automatic" formed.
How does conscience formed?
-> Our Conscience is gradually develops and is influenced by our family, barkada, religious practices, catechesis, and
even media
-> It is our Moral responsibility as human persons to develop a correct conscience, one that accurately judge moral
goodness or evil according to what objectively good or evil.
*This dual obligation of subjective correctness, of the following and forming our conscience, arises from our nature as
persons of reasons and responsible freedom
*Sometimes a Person's conscience may be mistakenly judges something objectively evil to be good or good to be evil.
RELIGION 9
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2 Qtr Week 5
Name_____________________________________________ Yr and Section __________________
ACTIVITY # 1
Conscience Case Studies
Case 1: The Wrong Bill
You and your friends have just dined in an expensive restaurant. When you inspect the bill, you notice that
the waiter forgot to charge your table one main entrée you ordered that cost P250.00 Your friend Matthew tells all of
you to keep quiet about the mistake. What will you do?
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Case 2: Taking Care of a Sick Parent
You are left to care for your bedridden mother one Sunday. Around six o’clock in the evening, your other
family members call you to tell you that they might come home a bit late. 7pm mass in your parish, but it seems that
you might not be able to make it because you need to take care of your mom. What will you do?
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ACTIVITY # 2
Conscience in Sacred Scripture
There are many people in Sacred Scripture who struggled with their conscience. Find the passages given below and
write it at the back of the answer sheet.
1. Mt 8:5-13
2. Lk 7:1-10
3. Jn 4:46-53
Enrichment
Choose the letter of the correct answer.
1. To make things right with God, we must
a. confess our sins to Him.
b. go to church and do good things.
2. If we want to have a clear conscience we must
a. make things right with those we have offended.
b. not be concerned if we have offended someone.
3. The best way to apologize is
a. to ask someone else to tell the person you offended that you are sorry.
b. to go to the person you offended and speak to him or her alone
4. To apologize correctly, you should
a. tell the person you are sorry, but it wasn’t really your fault.
b. say what you did wrong, not blame anyone else, ask the person to forgive you and wait for his answer.
5. If you stole from someone, you should
a. ask for forgiveness and return what you stole.
b. just ask the person to forgive you.
Answer the question in two to three sentences.

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Module # 5 Grade 9 RELIGION

2nd Qtr (Week 5)

A. Topic: Quarter 2: Unit 2 Understanding Basic Moral Principles

Conscience Morally Obliges Us

1. To discern and judge the moral goodness or evil of a particular act.

2 dimension of Human Conscience

Subjective dimension of Human Conscience

Objective Dimension of Human Conscience

Values, Moral Laws & Human Conscience

Following And Forming Our Conscience

Follow your Conscience

Form Your Conscience

Name___________________________ Yr and Section

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