THEOLOGICAL VIRTUES Hope Faith Charity 1252020 CCC 1813
- Slides: 100
THEOLOGICAL VIRTUES Hope Faith Charity 12/5/2020 CCC 1813 1
12/5/2020 2
Faith Is theological virtue by which we believe in God and believe all that he said and revealed to us. By faith “man freely commits his entire self to God. ” 12/5/2020 CCC 1814 3
Faith The believer seeks to know God and do God’s will. “Living faith” work (s) through charity. The gift of faith remains in one who has not sinned against it. 12/5/2020 CCC 1814 - 1815 4
Faith apart from works is dead (James 2: 2)”: when it is deprived of hope and love, faith does not fully unite the believer to Christ and does not make him/her a living member of his body. 12/5/2020 CCC 1813 - 1816 5
Faith The disciple of Christ must not only keep the faith and live on it, but also profess it, confidently bear witness to it and spread it. 12/5/2020 CCC 1816 6
12/5/2020 CCC 2087 - 2089 7
SIN AGAINST FAITH Voluntary doubt about the faith disregards or refuses to hold true what God has revealed and the Church proposes for belief. 12/5/2020 CCC 2088 8
SIN AGAINST FAITH Involuntary doubt refers to the hesitation in believing, difficulty in overcoming objections connected with faith or also aroused by its obscurity. If deliberately cultivated doubt can lead to spiritual blindness. 12/5/2020 CCC 2088 (157) 9
SIN AGAINST FAITH Incredulity (disbelief) is the neglect of revealed truth or the willful refusal to assent (agree) to it. 12/5/2020 CCC 2089 10
SIN AGAINST FAITH Heresy is the obstinate (stubborn) postbaptismal denial of some truth which must be believed with divine and catholic faith. . 12/5/2020 CCC 2089 11
SIN AGAINST FAITH Apostasy is the total repudiation of the Christian faith 12/5/2020 CCC 2029 (162, 817) 12
SIN AGAINST FAITH Schism Is the refusal of submission of the Roman Pontiff or of communion with the members of the Church subject to him 12/5/2020 13
12/5/2020 CCC 1817 - 1819; 2091 - 2092 14
Hope Is theological virtue by which we desire the kingdom of heaven and eternal life as our happiness, placing our trust in Christ’s promises. 12/5/2020 CCC 1817 -1821 15
12/5/2020 16
WAY OF SINNING AGAINST Hope Despair, man ceases to hope for his/her personal salvation from God, for help in attaining it or the forgiveness of his/her sins. 12/5/2020 CCC 2091 17
WAY OF SINNING AGAINST Hope Presumption (1 st kind) Man presumes upon his own capacities, hoping to be able to save himself without help from God 12/5/2020 CCC 2092 18
WAYS OF SINNING AGAINST Hope Presumption (2 nd kind) He presumes upon God’s almighty power or his mercy (hoping to obtain his forgiveness without conversion and glory without merit) 12/5/2020 CCC 2092 19
12/5/2020 20
Charity Is theological virtue by which we love God above all things for his own sake, and our neighbor as ourselves for the love of God Jesus made charity the new commandment. 12/5/2020 CCC 1822 -1826 21
12/5/2020 22
WAY OF SINNING AGAINST Charity/Love 1. Indifference – neglects or refuses to reflect on divine charity; it fails to consider its prevenient (expectant) goodness and denies its power 12/5/2020 CCC 2094 23
WAY OF SINNING AGAINST Charity/Love 2. Ingratitude – fails or refuses to acknowledge divine charity and to return him love for love 12/5/2020 CCC 2094 24
WAY OF SINNING AGAINST Charity/Love 3. Spiritual sloth (laziness) goes so far as to refuse the joy that comes from God and to be repelled by divine goodness. 12/5/2020 CCC 9024 25
WAY OF SINNING AGAINST Charity/Love 4. Hatred of God – comes from pride. It is contrary to love of God, whose goodness it denies, and whom it presumes to curse as the one who forbids sins and inflicts punishments. 12/5/2020 CCC 2094 26
TEN COMMANDMENTS GOD’ LAWS OF LOVE 12/5/2020 27
FIRST COMMANDMENT “You Shall Worship The Lord Your God and Him Only Shall You Serve” 12/5/2020 28
CHAPTER ONE YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND 12/5/2020 29
Faith Charity 12/5/2020 Hope Prayer 30
12/5/2020 31
Prayer is the raising of one’s mind and heart to God or the requesting of good things from God 12/5/2020 CCC 2590 32
PRAYER COMMANDS Worship of GOD Reverence for Holy Things 12/5/2020 33
PRAYER COMMANDS Not to Neglect our Faith We are not to be indifferent to God 12/5/2020 34
12/5/2020 35
SINS AGAINST 1 ST COMMANDMENT Superstition Is the deviation of religious feeling and of the practices this feeling imposes. It can even affect the worship we offer the true God 12/5/2020 CCC 2111 36
SINS AGAINST 1 ST COMMANDMENT IDOLATRY Not only refers to false pagan worship. It remains a constant temptation to faith. Idolatry consists in divinizing what is not God. 12/5/2020 CCC 2113 37
SINS AGAINST 1 ST COMMANDMENT Divination Placing our trust for the future in things such as horoscopes, astrology, palm reading, omens and using clairvoyants rather than God’s providence 12/5/2020 CCC 2115 38
SINS AGAINST 1 ST COMMANDMENT Divination All forms of divination are to be rejected: Horoscopes Astrology Palm reading Interpretation of omens, and lots Clairvoyance 12/5/2020 Recourse to mediums CCC 2116 39
SINS AGAINST 1 ST COMMANDMENT Magic & Sorcery One attempts to tame occult powers, so as to place them at one’s service and have a supernatural power over others 12/5/2020 CCC 2117 40
SINS AGAINST 1 ST COMMANDMENT Spiritualism Often implies divination or magical practices. 12/5/2020 CCC 2117 41
SINS AGAINST 1 ST COMMANDMENT Irreligion God’s first commandment condemns the main sins of irreligion: tempting God, in words or deeds, sacrilege, and simony. 12/5/2020 CCC 2118 42
SINS AGAINST 1 ST COMMANDMENT Tempting God Consist in putting his goodness and almighty power to the test by word or deed. 12/5/2020 43
SINS AGAINST 1 ST COMMANDMENT Sacrilege Consists in profaning or treating unworthily the sacraments, liturgical actions, as well as persons, things, or places consecrated to God. 12/5/2020 CCC 2120 44
SINS AGAINST 1 ST COMMANDMENT Sacrilege Is a grave sin especially when committed against the Eucharist, for in this sacrament the true Body and Blood of Christ is made substantially present for us. 12/5/2020 CCC 2120 45
FORBIDS Simony I Is defined as the buying or selling of spiritual things. 12/5/2020 CCC 2121 46
FORBIDS Atheism The denial in theory and/or practice that God exists. Atheism is a sin against the virtue of religion required by the first commandment of the law. 12/5/2020 CCC 2123 47
FORBIDS Apostasy The total repudiation of the Christian faith. 12/5/2020 CCC 2089 48
SECOND COMMANDMENT You Shall Not Take The Name Of The Lord Your God In Vain. 12/5/2020 49
COMMANDS Reverence In Speaking about God Holy things 12/5/2020 Keeping Vows 50
FORBIDS Blasphemy False Oaths Cursing Perjury Swearing in God’s Name when something goes wrong 12/5/2020 51
FORBIDS False Oaths which misuse God's name, show lack of respect for the Lord. This also forbids magical use of the divine name. 12/5/2020 CCC 2149 52
FORBIDS Speaking Disrespectfully Of Holy Things False Oaths And Breaking Of Vows. 12/5/2020 53
THIRD COMMANDMENT Remember To Keep Holy The Sabbath Day 12/5/2020 2168 - 2188 54
COMMANDS We must go to Church on Sundays and holy days. Catholics must participate in the Eucharistic Liturgy 12/5/2020 55
FORBIDS We should abstain from all unnecessary work Missing church (Mass) through one’s fault 12/5/2020 56
Catholics over the age of reason who deliberately choose not to attend Mass on a Sunday or Holy Day commit a mortal sin. If one is sick or it is impossible to attend Mass, one is excused 12/5/2020 57
FOURTH COMMANDMENT Honor Your Father And Mother 12/5/2020 58
COMMANDS Love Respect Children obey their parents in all things except sin. 12/5/2020 59
COMMANDS Help their parents in their old age or if they are sick/helpless Pray for them Children must obey others in authority while under their care 12/5/2020 60
COMMANDS Parents obligations to children Parents must care for the spiritual and temporal welfare of their children 12/5/2020 61
COMMANDS Parents must teach their children Christian virtues by word and example. Parents must teach their children about God and the Gospels 12/5/2020 62
FORBIDS Hatred of parents and superiors Disrespect, disobedience of parents and those in authority while under their care 12/5/2020 63
FIFTH COMMANDMENT You shall not kill 12/5/2020 64
COMMANDS Safeguarding one’s health and life Safeguarding the bodily welfare of others 12/5/2020 65
COMMANDS Controlling our anger Unjust killing Suicide 12/5/2020 66
FORBIDS Abortion Euthanasia Artificial Contraception Sterilization 12/5/2020 67
FORBIDS Seeking revenge and holding grudges Leading others into sin by our bad example (scandal) 12/5/2020 68
FORBIDS Sterilization Fighting Endangering one’s life or limb or that of others 12/5/2020 69
SIXTH COMMANDMENT Thou shall not commit adultery 12/5/2020 70
COMMANDS Respect of our sexual identity We are to practice the virtue of chastity 12/5/2020 71
FORBIDS Adultery Marital infidelity, or sexual relations between two partners, at least one of whom is married to another party. 12/5/2020 CCC 2380; CF 1650 72
FORBIDS Fornication Sexual intercourse between an unmarried man and unmarried women. 12/5/2020 73
FORBIDS Masturbation The deliberate stimulation of the genital organs in order to derive sexual pleasure 12/5/2020 74
FORBIDS Contraception The use of mechanical, chemical, or medical Procedures to prevent conception from taking Place as a result of sexual intercourse; Contraception offends against the openness to Procreation required of marriage and also the Inner truth of conjugal love. 12/5/2020 75
FORBIDS Artificial Insemination Test-tube babies Surrogate motherhood 12/5/2020 Homosexual Acts 76
FORBIDS Pornography Prostitution Rape Incest Polygamy 12/5/2020 77
DOES NOT FORBID Couples to regulate births through Natural Family Planning 12/5/2020 78
Natural Family Planning Differs from contraception because couples do nothing to interfere with their fertility. Where as those who use contraception do interfere with conception 12/5/2020 79
SEVENTH COMMANDMENT Thou Shall Not Steal 12/5/2020 80
COMMANDS That the goods of creation are for all people in common All have the right to own private property We respect another’s property 12/5/2020 81
COMMANDS Reparation for property we steal We must respect everything that God has created 12/5/2020 82
FORBIDS Stealing Fraud Deliberately damaging another’s property Not paying one’s just debts or obligations 12/5/2020 83
FORBIDS Failure to fulfill a promise/contract Not returning found or borrowed property Not giving a just days work to an employer 12/5/2020 84
FORBIDS Failure to pay a just wage for work Not helping the poor or those in need 12/5/2020 85
FORBIDS Excessive Gambling Reducing people to slaves for mere profit 12/5/2020 86
EIGHTH COMMANDMENT Thou Shall Not Bear False Witness Against Thy Neighbor 12/5/2020 87
COMMANDS That we speak the truth That we keep secrets we have promised to keep 12/5/2020 88
FORBIDS Lying Perjury Judging other’s without sufficient evidence Gossiping about other’s 12/5/2020 89
FORBIDS Lying to destroy another’s reputation Praising sinful acts of another Self praise to the point lying 12/5/2020 90
NINTH COMMANDMENT Thou Shall Not Covet Thy Neighbors Wife 12/5/2020 91
COMMANDS To be pure of heart Not to take pleasure in impure thoughts or desires 12/5/2020 92
COMMANDS That we dress and act in modesty 12/5/2020 93
FORBIDS Immodesty Speaking or dressing in suggestive manner that can lead others to sin 12/5/2020 94
TENTH COMMANDMENT Thou Shall Not Covet Thy Neighbors Goods 12/5/2020 95
COMMANDS That we put God above all earthly goods We not be envious of another’s goods 12/5/2020 96
FORBIDS An immoderate desire to acquire the goods of another Wishing harm on another person because of our envy 12/5/2020 97
WAY OF SINNING AGAINST Hope Despair is contrary to God’s goodness, to his justice – for the Lord is faithful to his promises and to his mercy 12/5/2020 CCC 2091 98
WAY OF SINNING AGAINST Charity/Love 3. Lukewarmness – is hesitation or negligence in responding to divine love’; it can imply refusal to give oneself over to the prompting of charity 12/5/2020 CCC 2094 99
SINS AGAINST 1 ST COMMANDMENT Idolatry The divinizing what is not God Honoring or revering a creature in place of God 12/5/2020 CCC 2113 100
