Transcript What is Sin?

WHAT IS SIN?
WHAT IS SIN?
• It is a decision we make which goes against
the truth that is God
• A deliberate refusal or failure to pay
attention to the rules and guidelines set by
the Church
– example: Ten Commandments, The Beatitudes
• It weakens our love for God, ourselves and
others
•
Sin is deciding to be less loving than
we could be
•
Ask yourself these questions to
decide if you have sinned:
1. Does what I have done go against God’s
Commandments and the teaching of Christ?
2. Does what I have done weaken my love for
God, my relationship with other people or my
personal growth?
3. Did I know what I was doing was wrong?
4. Am I embarrassed to tell people what I have
done?
FREEDOM
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According to Catholic tradition freedom, is
freedom for:
1. doing good, for loving
2. following Christ

The Catholic understanding of freedom is
different from the cultural mindset, which
understands freedom only as freedom from:
1. Rules
2. Constraints
3. Direction
4. Guidance
5. Moral imperatives
ATTITUDE
•
When you develop good attitudes towards
different situations, it will be easier to handle
various problems
•
These attitudes can be called virtues
•
Virtues are the best attitudes to adopt
because they are likely to help you make the
right decision
•
Virtues are necessary when you are seeking
to have good relationships with others
VIRTUES
• A quality of character or intellect through which an
individual is enabled to live a good life
Enhance
Friendships
Developed
through
education, prayer
and patience
Attitudes
and habits
Help control
emotions
VIRTUES
Avoid bad
decisions
Make
good
choices
Theological Virtues
Gifts from God
• Faith
• Hope
• Love
(NT – Paul)
Cardinal Virtues
• Identify specific ways to love
• “Cardo” Latin upon which all other moral virtues hinge
• 4 Cardinal Virtues
1. Prudence: respect for learning, culture, common sense
2. Justice: fairness, accepting consequences, accepting the
rights of others, honouring commitments
3. Temperance: abstinence, moderation, ability to say no
4. Fortitude: courage, strength to overcome difficulties
Moral Virtues
Guide us in relationship with others
• Honesty
• Respect for others
• Compassion: empathy
• Respect for Creation: planet, RRR
• Peacemaking
• Respect for self/life: alcohol/drug abuse,
abortion, discrimination, euthanasia
Vice
• A bad habit, an inner readiness to
accomplish moral evil
• Opposite of virtue
Humility
• A lack of
false pride
• Not trying
to be
something
you are not
HUMILITY
PRIDE/VANITY
• Is considered the original and most serious of the seven
deadly sins as it is the ultimate source from which the
other sins arise.
• It is identified as a desire to be more important or
attractive than others, failing to acknowledge the good
work of others, and excessive love of self (especially
holding self out of proper position toward God).
LIBERALITY/MERCY
• Means
an unlimited loving
kindness toward all others.
• Putting others first
• Forgiveness
•a
sin of excess.
GREED
• Greed (as seen by the church) is applied to a very
excessive or rapacious desire and pursuit of wealth,
status and power
Chastity
• Control of both
our physical and
emotional sexual
urges.
• abstinence –
sex belongs in a
lifelong,
committed
relationship.
LUST
•Usually thought of as excessive thoughts or
desires of a sexual nature
• desiring something that is material
(something that someone else has)
• The state of endurance under
difficult circumstances - persevering
in the face of delay or being
provoked without acting on
annoyance/anger in a negative way
• exhibiting forbearance when under
strain, especially when faced with
longer-term difficulties.
PATIENCE
ANGER/WRATH
• Uncontrolled
feelings of hatred
and anger.
•Anger, in its purest
form, presents with
self destructiveness
and violence
• Feelings of anger
can manifest in
different ways,
including impatience
and revenge
TEMPERANCE, ABSTINENCE, SELFCONTROL
• the control over
excess
• no virtue can be
sustained without the
ability to control
oneself
GLUTTONY
• Over-indulgence
and
over-consumption of
anything to the point of
waste.
• In the Christianity it is
considered a sin
because of the
excessive desire for
food, or its withholding
from the needy.
• Not just an emotion
• It is a call to action
to do what is good
for others.
• Acting in a way that
demonstrates
genuine concern
and respect for
others.
LOVE
- Those who commit
the sin of envy resent
that another person
has something they
perceive themselves
as lacking, and wish
the other person to be
deprived of it.
FORTITUDE/COURAGE
• standing up when no one else does
• zealous and careful nature in one's actions and work, shown by
a good work ethic, budgeting of one's time, monitoring one's own
activities to guard against laziness and putting forth full
concentration in one's work
SLOTH
• failure to utilize
one's talents and
gifts because of
laziness and
indifference
Seven Deadly Vices
Virtues
Pride, vanity
Humility
Greed, avarice,
covetousness
Liberality, mercy
Lust
Chastity, continence
Anger
Patience, meekness
Gluttony
Temperance, abstinence,
self-control
Envy
Love of God, love of
neighbour, love of enemy
Sloth
Fortitude, courage