The moral act

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    Freedom and Conscience
    Man is a free, moral being, responsible for his own acts Human freedom is limited by the unique circumstances of each person's life examples: poverty, war, bad household/abuse true love is a free gift of oneself that leads to self-mastery Conscience is the practical application of the objective moral law to concrete circumstances

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    Love
    If love is taken or required it is not free the self-giving that is love is often hard it may require overcoming vices like laziness selfishness, sensuality are also vices

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    The Moral Act
    True freedom is not doing whatever you want but doing what you ought Good actions make us freer Bad moral actions make us a slave to sin Every human being faces moral decisions and is morally responsible for his/her own acts a moral act involves both deliberation and choice has moral content affects the character of the person

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    Freedom and Responsibility
    the more knowledge one possesses, the more morally responsible one is for his/her own actions there is no such thing as a freedom that is independent of responsibility the origin of moral evil is the free decision of man to reject God's moral law

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    Effects of Grace
    they enlighten us to know what is right and strengthen our will to do what is right in order to fufill God's will they help us see the truth they do not diminish freedom

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    How do we align our will with God's will?
    listen to him follow the moral and natural law use freedom properly with the help of grace

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    What is conscience?
    "We must continually seek God's grace, continually respond to the actual graces God is working within us, incling us to turn to him and do good." the reality of conscience is witnessed both in Sacred Scripture and through human experience. We have both a right and a duty to exercise our moral conscience a good conscience applies moral truth; it does not create it. conscience fails when the objective moral law is ignored or misunderstood conscience is not an infallible guide and can be ignorant or blinded

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    How conscience is formed
    practice frequent and honest self-examination, which leads to sincere repentance  frequent repetition of the Sacrament of Reconciliation when the conscience is repeatedly ignored through repeated errors it eventually becomes numb to wrongdoing and ceases to function as it should the fullness of conscience involves a clear awareness that every Christian is called by Baptism to become a saint

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    How to make a sincere repentance
    contrition the sorrow of our sins the purpose of amendment acknowledge your sins or we would just turn around and committ the same sin

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    Spiritual direction
    seek the council of a wise person involved with the church ideally a priest

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    What is a moral act?
    an action that results from deliberate choice between good and evi, or degrees of goodness involves both deliberation and choice has moral content a personal act - involve intellect and the will never leaves us exactly the same

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