LETRAN DE DAVAO, INC

Junior-High School Department

Learning Guide – CLE 10
SY 2021-2022
Week 3 & 4
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Fr. Buddy J. Cuenca CSCh

Lesson 3

THE LOCUS FOR DIALOGUE WITH GOD

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
A. Differentiate the types of norms or laws that originate from God and from
humans, and establish the need for a Christian formation of conscience.
B. Express correctly the need to be obedient to moral norms for living an
authentic life.
C. Show God one’s wilingness to ask forgiveness through sincere participation in
the Prayer Service of Penance.

INTRODUCTION ABOUT THE LESSON

Conscience is the most secret core and sanctuary of the human person. There
he or she is alone with God, whose voice echoes in his or her depths. In a wonderful
way conscience reveals that law which is fulfilled by love of God and neighbor. In fidelity
to conscience, Christians are joined with the rest of humanity in the search for truth and
for the genuine solution to the numerous problems which arise in the life of individuals
and from social relationships. Hence, the more that a correct conscience holds sway,
the more the persons and groups turn aside from blind choice and strive to be guided by
objective norms of morality.

MOTIVATING ACTIVITY
A. Watch a short video about the DEADLINE – A short film on honesty at work.
(please refer to this link: youtube.com/watch?v=80YJ4wNkGXU)
B. Do the Role-Playing Activity: Conscience at Work on page 22.
Direction: Role-play the following situation and dramatize one of the
possible outcomes resulting from the decision taken. Afterwards, write your
own conclusion to the dilemma.
1. Your bestfriend from 10 years has been courting your cousin for a couple
of years now. But you know some secrets from his past. Good-looking and
a glib-speaker, he used to cheat on his girlfriends. Your cousin is unaware
of this. Should she know it? After all since he began courting your cousin,
he has not seen any other girl. You are sure of this. Must you then
disclose the secret to your cousin? Why or why not?
2. Your classmate has asked her parents’ permission to stay overnight at
your place to finish a group project for your Social Studies class. In reality,
however, she would be going out on a date with her boyfriend. At 10:00
that evening, her mother had called you up, asking how the work was
progressing and who the other guys were in the group. What would you
tell your classmate’s mom? Would you lie and cover up for your
classmate? Why or why not?
3. You are a doctor who just lost a daughter in a vehicular accident that was
clearly due to reckless and drunken driving. Unfortunately, the man who
was responsible for your daughter’s death was allowed by the court to go
scot free due to very powerful connections. One rainy night, a patient was
rushed to the hospital because of a head-on vehicular collision. You were
the emergency physician on-duty. You were shocked on seeing that the
patient was the very same man who caused your daughter’s untimely
death. If you were the doctor, how would you react?
 4. Would you let the man die? You could do it by simply not attending to him.
But how about the Hippocratic Oath you have taken as a physician? What
would you do?

VOCABULARY
Conscience - the ultimate guide to human behavior
Synderesis - athe general sense of value found in all human beings
Syneidesis - the conscience deciding on a concrete course of action
Moral Science - the conscience in search for the truth
Dilemma - a situation in which you ahve to make a difficult choice
Norm – standards of proper or acceptable behavior
Eternal Law – the whole extent of the saving plan of God
Natural Law – the demands of creation
Positive Law – a demand of the Eternal Law and the Natural Law that has been
made explicit by God or by some human authority

LEARNING ACTIVITIES
Read pages 23-27
* Linkage
* The Dignity of the Human Conscience
* Types of Conscience
* Moral Norm

SYNTHESIS/CLOSURE
Conscience frequently errs from invincible ignorance without losing its dignity.
The same cannot be said of a human being who cares but little for the truth and
goodness, or of a conscience which by degrees grows practically sightless as a result of
habitual sin. Moral norm is the objective standard of behavior. Conscience is the
subjective standard of morality. But it is the subjective that makes the objective
obligatory.

QUIZ

A. Explain briefly the following concepts regarding conscience.

1. Conscience in the Old Testament
2. The Dignity of the Human Conscience according to Gaudium et spes
3. The Threefold views in the contemporary understanding of the human
conscience
4. Differences between the Eternal law, Natural Law, and the positive law
5. The occasions wherein the human positive law stops from being
obligatory

PURPOSIVE ASSIGNMENT/ASSESSMENT
1. In your worksheet, write your insights about today’s lesson
2. THINGS TO REMEMBER only on page 31.
- What is dilemma?
- What is conscience?
- What are the types of understanding of the human conscience according
to a contemporary approach?
- What is a norm?
- What are the different kinds of norms or laws?
- What is Eternal Law?
- What is Natural Law?
- What is Positive Law?
 Lesson 4

TRAGEDY AND HOPE IN HUMAN LIFE

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
A. Understand the nature of sin and its bad effects in their life and in the life of
others as well.
B. Internalize the importance of conversion as a means of returning back to the
Father.
C. Have a sincere examination of conscience using prayers as bases from the
Bible.

INTRODUCTION ABOUT THE LESSON

All sins offend God. Likewise, all sins hurt the sinner. Some sins, however, offend
God slightly and cause spiritual sickness to individual. Other sins, on the other hand,
offend God gravely and cause the spiritual death of the offender.

MOTIVATING ACTIVITY
A. Watch a short video about the Prodigal Son Story.
(please refer to this link: youtube.com/watch?v=6SNr5zJFngg)
B. Do the Collage-Making (Ugly Face) on page 33.
1. List down your own criteria of a beautiful person.
2. List down your own criteria of an ulgy person.

VOCABULARY
Pesha - offence
Awon – guilt
Hattah – sin
Venial Sin – offend God slightly
Mortal Sin – offend God gravely
Social Sin – the harm done by a group to the members of another group
Committed Sin – when evil is done
Omitted Sin – when good is not done
Mental Complacency or Sinful Fantasy – the imagination of doing something
wrong without actually wanting to do it
Sinful Joy – the delight at having done something evil
Sinful Regret – the sadness at not having done something bad
Sinful Desire – the determination to do something forbidden
Vainglory – the ridiculous claim to superiority
Envy – the feeling of wanting to have what someone else has
Anger – the distinctive urge to repel whatever is hostile
Avarice or Greed – the disorderly pursuit of material things
Lust – the unrestrained quest for sexual pleasure
Intemperance – lack of control or self-discipline
spiritual Sloth – lack of interest in the spiritual realm
Seduction – the deliberate effort to lead one to sin
Scandal – conduct that was performed with no intention of leading someone to
sin
Formal Cooperation – the wholehearted collaboration of the accomplice in the
commission of the sin
Material Cooperation – the heartless collaboration in the sin done
Empirical Consciousness – awareness of the what
Intellectual Consciousness – awareness of the why
Rational Consciousness – awareness of the which
Responsible Consciousness – awareness of the who
Intellectual Conversion – moving from the empirical level to the intellectual
level of consciousness
 Moral Conversion – moving from the intellectual level to the rational level
of consciousness
Religious Conversion – moving from the rational level to the responsible level
of consciousness

LEARNING ACTIVITIES
Read pages 34-40
* Linkage
* The Prodigal son
* Christian Concept of Sin
* The Degrees of Sinfulness
* Personal and Social Sins
* Commited and Omitted Sins
* External and Internal Sins
* The Capital Sins
* Responsibility for the Sins of Others
* Conversion

SYNTHESIS/CLOSURE
All sins offend God. Likewise, all sins hurt the sinner. There are no degrees of
sin, as there is no difference in the death of two corpses. Mortal sin deserves
punishment imposed by God. It is more of a punishment that the sinner has chosen
himself or herself. He or she has decided that he/she does not want God.

QUIZ
Please answer the evaluative quiz on page 43.
A. Identify the following statements. Write the answer on the space provided
before the number (1-10).
B. Describe briefly the different concepts about Conversion:
1. The four levels of Consciousness
2. Kinds of Conversion

PURPOSIVE ASSIGNMENT/ASSESSMENT
1. In your journal notebook, record your experiences and situations about the
sins or occasions of sin that challenged you as a child of God. Be specific as
you can in describing your experience. Describe too the sense of forgiveness,
how you felt about it at that time and how you feel about it now. It is easier to
let go of bad feelings once you confront them.
2. THINGS TO REMEMBER only on page 42.
- What are the differences between pesha, awon, and hattah?
- What are the degrees of sinfulness and their differences?
- What are personal and social sins?
- What are committed and omitted sins?
- What are external and internal sins?
- What are capital sins and the seven kinds?
- What is conversion and its kinds?
- What are the four levels of consciousness?