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Session 18: The Process of Making a Good Moral Choice
Good moral decisions are guided by specific steps.
Good moral decisions are guided by specific steps.
When we love unselfishly, we live as the Lord lives.
Our intellect, will, and emotions can work together to help us make good decisions and to inform and follow our conscience.
The three artifacts of the Fall are darkened intellect, weakened will, and inclination toward sin.
Learning to know and choose the good is a habit we can develop.
The family is formative to social development.
Sin is “an utterance, a deed, or a desire contrary to the eternal law” that offends God.
Our feelings are not always accurate signs of whether a choice is right or wrong.
The virtues of faith, hope, and love help us to know and be in relationship with God.
In order to live the good life we must cultivate not only the inner life of moral virtue, but the outer life by our participation in our communities, participation in the Sacraments, and instruction by those holy ones who came before us.
A well-formed conscience helps us make good decisions, in spite of how we might initially feel.
We each receive unique gifts from the Holy Spirit and can ask God for His grace to strengthen these gifts.
Baptism is necessary for salvation from sin.
The sins of adultery, fornication, masturbation, and homosexual activity offend the unitive and procreative purposes of marriage and diminish the goods of marital love.
By the development of conscience, a person is able to take responsibility for his or her choices.