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Diocese of Phoenix - Kino Institute

28 January 2014 - Week Four

The opposite of love is not hate but indifference.Elie Wiesel

The opposite of love is not hate but use.Blessed John Paul II

CATHOLIC MORAL RESPONSIBILITY

OPENING PRAYER

Student’s Prayer before Study

by St. Thomas Aquinas

Ineffable Creator,

Who, from the treasures of Your wisdom,

has established three hierarchies of angels,

has arrayed them in marvelous order

above the fiery heavens,

and has marshaled the regions of the universe

with such artful skill.

You are proclaimed

the true font of light and wisdom,

and the primal origin

raised high beyond all things.

Pour forth a ray of Your brightness

into the darkened places of my mind;

disperse from my soul

the twofold darkness

into which I was born:

sin and ignorance.

You make eloquent the tongues of infants.

Refine my speech

and pour forth upon my lips

the goodness of Your blessing.

Grant to me

keenness of mind,

capacity to remember,

skill in learning,

subtlety to interpret,

and eloquence in speech.

May You

guide the beginning of my work,

direct its progress,

and bring it to completion.

You Who are true God and true Man,

Who live and reign, world without end.

Amen.

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OUTLINE

6:30pm Prayer

6:40 Review - LAW

7:00 Veritatis Splendor I + II

8:00 BREAK

8:15 Veritatis Splendor III + IV

9:15 Questions?

REVIEW

What is the relationship between

the “Old Law” and the “New Law”?

What does it mean that the New Law is

“a law of love, a law of grace,

and a law of freedom” (CCC 1985)?

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Veritatis Splendor ~ “The Splendor of Truth”

Feast of the Transfiguration

6 August 1993

Significance of…

• writing & release date?

• feast?

• audience?

• why?

• purpose?

“For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine but, following their own desires and insatiable

curiosity, will accumulate teachers and will stop listening to the truth and will be diverted to myths.” 2 Tim 4:3-4

The eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had ordered them. When they saw him, they

worshiped, but they doubted. Then Jesus approached and said to them, “All power in heaven and on earth has been

given to me. Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son,

and of the holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always,

until the end of the age.” Matthew 28:16-20

A. What crisis?

B. Which traditional moral doctrines

called into question?

C. What response from Magisterium?

D. How (method) of response?

Part I: BiblicalChrist and the Answer to the Question about Morality

“From behind the order imposed by the Law there appears the face of the living

God, who searches for His creature and, having made it according to His image,

invites it to become His likeness...”Henri de Lubac

The Rich Young Man & the Christian State of Life

Good & Evil: God’s Revelation

Moral Life as “Response” to Christ’s Initiative

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Part II: DoctrinalThe Church and the Discernment of Certain Tendencies

in Present-Day Moral Theology

“…the sweetness of this revelation leads to an even deeper realization that obedience has to be more

than assent, that this assent has to be a return of love. Such love has to be a gift, the gift of

oneself…in the state of perfect freedom brought about by perfect obedience, obligation disappears,

since it was never anything but a liberating constraint for the sake of this state of freedom.”Henri de Lubac

1. Introduction

2. Freedom and Law; Authentic Freedom

3. Conscience and Truth

4. Fundamental Choice and Specific Kinds of Behavior

5. The Moral Act

Part III: PastoralMoral Good for the Life of the Church and of the World

“[The obedience and assent] reveal itself… as the attraction of Supreme Love…

as a personal vocation within the great vocation in which all share,

the creative call of Personal Love.” Henri de Lubac

1. Introduction

2. Relationship between Human Freedom and Truth

3. The Intimate and Inseparable Unity of Faith and Morality

4. Martyrdom

5. The Service of Moral Theologians

6. The Responsibility of Bishops

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Part IV

Mary, Model of the Moral LifeConclusion

“Perfect” Example of Human Freedom

DISCUSSION

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he

who does the will of my Father who is in Heaven.”

Mt 7:21

Faith isn’t just an intellectual assent, but also requires doing the Lord’s

will. In other words, “knowing” about the structure and meaning of freedom,

conscience, virtue, law, sin, mercy, etc. is not alone equivalent to holiness.

What does this mean for contemporary Catholics (like faithful

Kino students ☺☺☺☺) studying the faith?

AGERE SEQUITUR ESSEAristotle ~ Aquinas

• Relationship between ontology and morality…

• Action “follows” (springs forth from) being…

• The essence/substance (esse) of who we are indicates our types of action (agere)!

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QUESTIONS?

1. 2. The Last Session!

Commandments 1-3

CCC readings

Kreeft

3. QUIZ III on VS

4. FINAL ESSAY

You must do the right thing, for the right reason, in the right way.