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REVIEWER IN CLE
(1st Mastery Test)
LIVING TOWARD CHRISTIAN MORALITY
- Simply means following Christ
- Refers to our journey of living the faith amidst a world
of lights & shadows
- Answers one of life’s most important questions:
 What good must I do to gain eternal life?
Sacred Scriptures & Church Traditions – primary references of
Christian Morality and in doing good
CHRISTIAN MORAL LIFE
- Centered on the Gospel
- Growing in faith through love of others & prayers
- Process of becoming the person who we truly are
 Jesus serves as our model to follow on what
we would do to others (John 13:15)
MORALITY – discerning between what is right & what is wrong
CHRISTIAN MORALITY AS KEEPING THE COMMANDMENTS
- We must keep the commandments to gain eternal life
DECALOGUE : THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
 Law of God to gain eternal life
 Concrete expression of the relationship
between God and the Israelites
 Truly love God and our neighbors in all that
we do
 Very foundation of the freedom and
happiness we are yearning for
TWO GREATEST COMMANDMENTS:
 You shall love the Lord your God with all
your heart and with all your soul and with
all your mind
 You shall love your neighbor as yourself
The parable which tells us how we should
love our neighbors:
The Parable of the Good Samaritan
CHRISTIAN MORALITY THROUGH FOLLOWING CHRIST
- Jesus said, “Come and follow me” Mt. 19:21
The parable which tells us how to gain eternal life:
The Parable of the Rich Young Man
o Jesus said, “If you want to be perfect, go,
sell your possessions and give to the
poor, and you will have treasure
in heaven. Then come, follow me.”
- Detachment from everything that hinders us from
following Him.
CELEBRATING OUR HUMAN DIGNITY
- Humans are the only ones with dignity. We understand
the process of growing as an opportunity to become a
better person and live a fuller life.
Characteristics of a Human Person
 We are Historical Beings – we grow & develop in
discernible stages
 We are Embodied Spirits – we have bodily needs like
food, water, and rest, as well as spiritual needs like
companionship, sense of mission, education and the
ability to go beyond our bodily limitations for love
because of or spiritual faculties of intellect and will.
 We are Rational/Conscious Beings – God has created
us with intellect and free will so we can discern His
empowering actions in our everyday moral lives.
 We are Relational Beings – Our Christian faith affirms
our relational nature because God, our source, is
Himself a family, a communion of loving persons.
Christ commands us, “Love one another as I have loved
you”.
 We are Unique though fundamentally equal – In all
measurable ways, we are different yet fundamentally
equal at the core because of our common human
dignity. Therefore, we have the obligation to treat all
persons with genuine respect.
JESUS CHRIST REVEALS THE FULLNESS OF HUMAN DIGNITY
TRIUNE: We need to turn to Scriptures and to Church
teachings to more deeply appreciate our dignity as human
persons created, redeemed, and sanctified by the Triune God.
FOUR REVEALED TRUTHS ABOUT OUR HUMAN DIGNITY
1.) We have been created in the image and likeness of God.
2.) We have been redeemed by Christ.
3.) We are empowered to love by the Holy Spirit.
4.) We are destined to share in God’s eternal life.
THE PASCHAL MYSTERY – the event in Jesus’ life where he
showed that we have dignity and that we are important. This
further sanctified our human dignity.
HUMAN FREEDOM
- Something we experience as persons
- It is our capacity to choose, in our individual choices,
and in the person we become through our choices.
- We, as persons endowed with intellect and free will,
can discern our freedom through critical analysis of our
individual and social contexts.
- Being truly free means growing in our capacity to act
responsibly.
- Freedom is a gift from God that enables us to own and
give meaning to our own existence.
- Our freedom is always relational
- Our freedom is our responsibility because we are the
ones who decide what we do.
- Freedom is not the right to do as we please, but rather
to do what is right.
FREEDOM IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
- The most important experience of freedom in the life
of the Israelites was their exodus from slavery and
suffering in Egypt to a new life of freedom and dignity
as God’s people.
- They experienced freedom when they have crossed
the red sea
- The Ten Commandments summarizes and expresses
our most basic duties and rights.
 First Three – concretely express how we
should love and worship God.
 Four to Ten – express how we should love our
neighbor.
- God’s commandments express what we should do to
be truly free: worship God and always respect the life,
marriage, property, and honor all persons. It prohibits
acts that can destroy our freedom: idolatry, violence,
murder, adultery, theft, lies.
- Authentic Freedom is doing what is good, not the mere
saying on doing, but the true and good that is done for
oneself or others. It simply means ‘to act as Jesus did’.
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THE TEN COMMANDMENTS:

1.) “I am the Lord thy God, you shall not have no gods before
Me.”
2.) “You shall not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.”
3.) “Remember to keep the Sabbath Day holy.”
4.) “Honor your father and mother.”
5.) “You shall not kill.”
6.) “You shall not commit adultery.”
7.) “You shall not steal.”
8.) “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor”
9.) “You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife”
10.) “You shall not covet your neighbor’s goods”

FREEDOM IN THE NEW TESTAMENT

- Jesus Christ brought freedom from conditions, attitude
and acts that hinder us from following Him to give us
the freedom for growing in His likeness.
FREEDOM FROM: refers to everything that opposes our true
self-becoming with others
- conditions, attitudes, acts that hinder us from doing
good and following Jesus
FREEDOM FOR: is growing as full persons and children of God,
sharing in the life of Christ, our liberator, through His Spirit. A
freedom found in “authentic love”
- freedom to become like Jesus, to grow in His likeness
(goodness)

As Christ’s disciples, we are called to strive to free ourselves

from all threats by discerning and choosing what is truly good
amidst all temptations and asking God for the grace to
overcome our built-in weaknesses through prayer, the
celebration of the Sacraments and good companions.

 If a person consistently chooses to do what is morally

good, he/she becomes a good person who is
authentically free and loving, while when he/she
chooses to do what is evil, he/she becomes an evil
person, who is unfree and self-centered.