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DE LA SALLE SANTIAGO ZOBEL SCHOOL

HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT


CHRISTIAN LIVING
LEARNING MODULE - 3


SOCIAL TEACHINGS AND THE
SINFUL SOCIAL STRUCTURES






Submitted by:
TEACHERS: Asisclo Pablo Uyson
& Charles Mioza
YEAR: Fourth Year
SY 2010 2011 / TERM: I

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CONTENT STANDARD: (to be established by CBCP-ECCE)
PERFORMANCE STANDARD: (to be established by CBCP-ECCE REQUIREMENTS)
CONTENT: This module provides students with the fundamentals and basic knowledge
about social sins and sinful social structures that will help them become more aware and
dynamic in their plan of action for self transformation and society as a whole. Students
come up and offer concrete solutions through multi-media presentation in view of
addressing the various social sins and other sinful social structures of our society. Finally,
students consider ways they and others might create a better society through reflection
and action guided by the social teachings of the Church.

STAGE 1: ESTABLISHING DESIRED RESULTS
BIG IDEA/ENDURING UNDERSTANDING (EU)
Social sin describes human-made structures when they offend human dignity by causing people to
suffer oppression, exploitation or marginalization. Becoming aware of structural evils, we should
not be paralyzed by the guilt of self-condemnation. Rather be moved to conversion, examine
existing regulations and practices, and reform those that offend human dignity.
Possible misunderstanding or misconceptions students may have about the unit topic:
1. That it is nothing more than a violation of human relationships
2. That an action is sinful only if:
a. It is frowned upon by society
b. It violates their own conscience
c. It is harmful to someone else
3. This leads many to misunderstanding how the problem of sin can
be corrected
a. E.g., some believe that correcting sin involves nothing more
than making things right with other people
b. With this misconception, they think they are forgiven of all
past actions if they simply change their behaviour
4. Social sins will only affect other people and not myself and my family
5. Sinful social structures can be solved only by my own personal effort

ESSENTIAL QUESTION(S):
What is the importance and implications of knowing and understanding social sins
and other sinful social structures?
How can one respond to the challenges of minimizing if not eradicating these social
sins and various social sinful structures?
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What will be the possible consequences if I responsibly carry out my tasks in view of
avoiding to commit these social sins and remind others as well not to fall into theses
said trap of sinfulness?
TRANSFER GOAL(S):
Conversion from social sin involves, at one level, changing our own lifestyle in ways that
will help reform society. An occasion to minimize the spread of social sin, is e.g. curb our use of
exclusive and insensitive language to minimize sexism. We can influence others' attitudes and
promote respect and dignity of others through the ways we talk to and about one another.
LGP Integration
LGP: 1. Challenge learners realize their full potential. Students will be able to realize
that the challenge of following Christ in the path to holiness is to take serious efforts of
avoiding support that which promotes the integrity, dignity and welfare of every person.
2. Bring Christian perspectives to bear on human understanding skills and values of
the learners. Knowledge of the social sins and sinful social structures will help them
become aware of their essential role in nation building and the transformation of society.
3. Ensure that the learners translate knowledge into something useful in actual
practice for the betterment of society and the Church. Be able to apply the principles
and implications of avoiding these social sins and other sinful social structures in their day-
to-day lives.
4. Prepare the learners to participate in the world of work, family, community,
nation and the church. The knowledge of these social sins and other sinful social
structures are helpful source in view of the carrying out of the mission of humanity
towards the betterment of everyone.














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STAGE 2: DETERMINING VALID EVIDENCE/ASSESSMENT

PRODUCT OR PERFORMANCE SHOWING EVIDENCE OF UNDERSTANDING
TERM 1 MINOR PROJECT4:
De la Salle Zobel School
Ayala Alabang Village, Muntinlupa City


Name: ________________________________ Sr. / Sec. ______ Date: ________________

DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE GRAPHIC OUTLINE
(Project)

Personal perspective on: ________________________________________________________
( example of a sinful social structure)
Role: ____________________________________________
(state whose side are you on, e.g. minimum wage earner government employee)






Food / Clothing Wife asking for increase
Education support for children Children asking for more food / clothing
Medicine Ailing mother at home
Housing Rent has increased
Others Looks for a better life in the future

Read and React














Needs Concerns
Attach a news clipping of a GOCC with
its head receiving multiple bonuses
Attach: Type your 300 words essay
/reaction
Text Statements
Your reactions
Consolidate: Group Reaction / Solution
SUMMARY POSITION STATEMENT
(Your paper / letter to the editor or lawmaker regarding the issue)
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1. Brainstorming, Analysis, Synthesis and Presentation in view of the NEW SEVEN
SOCIAL SINS ACCORDING TO VATICAN

a. GOAL: Discuss through brainstorming and come up a group POSITION
PAPER.
b. ROLE: Students will gather into seven groups to be part of (Researchers,
encoders/powerpoint maker, reporters/presenters, writers/collators)
c. AUDIENCE: 4
th
Year HS Students
d. SITUATION: You need to be analytical and imaginative as you create and
make your powerpoint presentation in view of your assigned topic.
e. PERFORMANCE: Organizing the planning, research, and consolidation of
group solution to the pressing social problem/condition to be done by
each group during CL class
2. Some students will act/serve as panelist/s

Standard: Rubric (pls. see attached copy)

RELATED FACET(S) OF UNDERSTANDING:
a. Explain: Discuss the importance of knowing and understanding the meaning
and reality of the social sins and various sinful social structures.
b. Interpret: Be able to communicate to others what message should be
remembered in view of the lessons on social sins and the sinful social
structures
c. Application: Share how knowing and understanding social sin and the sinful social
structures can be of helped in their daily life
d. Perspective: See how people from different social structures of life could work
together in unity through their knowledge about the sinful social
structures and social sins.
e. Empathy: The students will be able to see themselves in view of the dangers and
consequences that may come to their way if they continually commit
these social sins.
f. Self-understanding: The students will be able to point out what else they need to do so
that they could make full use of their knowledge in avoiding these social sins in their daily
life.
ASSESSMENT TOOLS
PRE-TEST
POST TEST
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STAGE 3: LEARNING PLAN FLOW
I. OBJECTIVES
Number of Teaching Days: 9 meetings
Teaching
Day
By the end of the unit, the students will be
able to:
ASSESSMENT
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3-4
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II. Subject Matter
A. Topic/Subtopic/s
a. Social Sins and Sinful Social Structures
B. Materials:
a. Textbook
b. Clippings
c. Internet URLs
d. Task Sheets
e. Powerpoints
C. Resources/ References /Websites:
a. Christian Morality
b. Morality and You by Cristina Astorga, Ph.D
c. Catechism of the Catholic Church
d. CBCP blogs
e. PCP2
f. Second Vatican Council
g. http://www.thesocialagenda.org/article1.htm

III. Statement of Knowledge
Prior Knowledge:
New Knowledge:

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IV. PROCEDURE:
I. INTRODUCTION:
Motivation to elicit the prior knowledge:
Eliciting of the prior knowledge through the following activities/questions to be
asked by the teacher to the students. Students will get their journal notebooks
to answer the said questions.
Activities/Questions to elicit the prior knowledge:

DAY 1
Preliminary routine:
Opening Prayer;
Greetings and reminders.

Module Title: GROWING AGAINST SINFUL SOCIAL STRUCTURES
Do not let sin rule your mortal body, and make you obey its lusts; no more shall you offer the
members of your body to sin as weapons for evil. Rather, offer yourselves to God as men who
have come back from the dead to life, and your bodies to God as weapons for justiceRom.
6:12-13.
Introduction: God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in
him (1 Jn 4:16). These words from the First Letter of John express with remarkable clarity
the heart of the Christian faith: the Christian image of God and the resulting image of
mankind and its destiny (Intro. Deus Caritas Est). However, our tendency to succumb to
temptation because of our pride and selfishness aggravated by the sinful structures around
us fail us to live the call to be faithful to Gods love. To combat the dark forces of evil, we
need to reflect more deeply on Gods everlasting and merciful love. Sin is a reality that we
must accept. St. John says: If we say, we are without sin, we deceive ourselves and the
truth is not in us. If we acknowledge our sins He is faithful and just and will forgive our sins
and cleans us from every wrongdoing (NAB 1 Jn. 1:8-9).
Activity#1: Case Analysis (This article will be flashed in the multi-media screen)

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A CASE OF HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCATES



















Teacher begins by saying: Today, we will discover the importance of knowing the
fundamentals of social sins and other sinful social structures in order for us to
manage our lives as Christs disciples.

ACTIVITIES:
Seatwork#1A. Answer the following questions in a 1 whole pad paper:
1. Did the men who massacred the people commit sin? Why or why not?
2. Did the NPA rebels they were chasing commit a sin?
3. What usually causes widespread and violent conflicts among people? How can
conflict be minimized?
4. What could you do for the survivors?



Shy and timid, young Marissa cannot remember how she lost her right hand. All she has is a picture
of her taken in February 1987she was only six thenwith her right hand bandaged. She is one of
the survivors of the infamous Lupao massacre in Nueva Ecija.
According to the survivors, men in soldiers uniform (later identified as soldiers of the 14
th
infantry
battalion) ordered her family and neighbours to line up in the middle of a field in the morning of
February 10, 1987. Then, the so-called soldiers, that they had lost track of the New Peoples Army
(NPA) rebels they were chasing, opened fire. The soldiers had lost two casualties and they
reportedly vented their ire on the hapless barrio folks, who happened to be living in the path of
alleged retreating rebels. After the massacre, the soldiers burned their bodies. Seventeen barrio
folks, mostly children, were killed.
Twenty three years later, the victims and survivors of one of the worst human rights cases in the
Phillipines still thirst for justice. For lack of evidence, the twenty three soldiers were acquitted. The
lots promised by the government to the victims as compensation has reportedly remained a promise.
When asked about the massacre, Marissa prefers not to talk. The memories are simply too painful to
recall. (Based on news report, Cueto Donna, PDI , February 7, 1997)

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1B. Make a list of actions which you think destroy positive relationships. Tell why
they should be removed.
ACTION REASON
1._________________________________ __________________________________
2._________________________________ ___________________________________
1C. Make a list of attitudes common to Filipino society that should be removed. Tell
why they should be removed.
ATTITUDE REASON
3._______________________________ __________________________________________
4._______________________________ __________________________________________
1D. List some rampant sins or evil happenings around your community and give your
suggestions on how to avoid those.
SINS/EVILS IN SOCIETY REASON
5._______________________________ ____________________________________
6._______________________________ ____________________________________
Some evils of society have become so ingrained in our community life that they
have hardened into institutions that seem difficult to break down
Transition statement: After reading the case story and doing the activities in view of the
said case analysis, you have now more or less situated yourselves to our third learning
module which is all about the Social Sins and Sinful Social Structures. Our aim then in
general with this module is to find ways on how to address and combat these social sins
and sinful social structures that destroy us as persons in particular and our society in
general. Indeed with God, hope springs eternal, thus let us not get tired of fighting these
social sinsLets now move further in realizing this goal by understanding and doing the
next task.

Activity#2:
DRAWING OUT LESSONS ON SOCIAL SINS IN VIEW OF THE PRODIGAL SON
The teacher will call a student to read aloud the parable of the prodigal son before
the students will do the next activity.
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The Prodigal Son - Story Summary: Luke 15:11-32
The story of the Prodigal Son, also known as the Parable of the Lost Son, follows the
parables of the Lost Sheep and the Lost Coin. Jesus is responding to the Pharisees'
complaint: "This man welcomes sinners and eats with them."
Jesus tells the story of a man who has two sons. The younger son asks his father to give him
his portion of the family estate as an early inheritance. Once received, the son promptly
sets off on a long journey to a distant land and begins to waste his fortune on wild living.
When the money runs out, a severe famine hits the country and the son finds himself in
dire circumstances. He takes a job feeding pigs. He is so destitute that he even longs to eat
the food assigned to the pigs.
The young man finally comes to his senses, remembering his father. In humility, he
recognizes his foolishness, decides to return to his father and ask for forgiveness and
mercy. The father who had been watching and waiting, receives his son back with open
arms of compassion. He is overjoyed by the return of his lost son! Immediately the father
turns to his servants and asks them to prepare a giant feast in celebration.
Meanwhile, the older son is not one bit happy when he comes in from working the fields
and discovers a party going on to celebrate his younger brother's return. The father tries to
dissuade the older brother from his jealous rage explaining, "You are always with me, and
everything I have is yours."

Points of Interest from the Story:
Typically, a son would receive his inheritance at the time of his father's death. The fact
that the younger brother instigated the early division of the family estate showed a
rebellious and proud disregard for his father's authority, not to mention a selfish and
immature attitude.
Pigs were unclean animals. Jews were not even allowed to touch pigs. When the son took
a job feeding pigs, even longing for their food to fill his belly, it reveals that he had fallen as
low as he could possibly go. This son represents a person living in rebellion to God.
Sometimes we have to hit rock-bottom before we come to our senses and recognize our sin.
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The father is a picture of the Heavenly Father. God waits patiently, with loving
compassion to restore us when we return to him with humble hearts. He offers us
everything in his kingdom, restoring full relationship with joyful celebration. He doesn't
even dwell on our past waywardness.
Reading from the beginning of chapter 15, we see that the older son is clearly a picture of
the pharisees. In their self-righteousness, they have forgotten to rejoice when a sinner
returns to God. Bitterness and resentment keeps the older son from forgiving his younger
brother. It blinds him to the treasure he freely enjoys through constant relationship with
the father.
Home work: Write a 1 page essay in view of the story of the Prodigal Son.
Questions for Reflection:
Who are you in this story? Are you a prodigal, a pharisee or a servant? Are you the
rebellious son, lost and far from God? Are you the self-righteous pharisee, no longer
capable of rejoicing when a sinner returns to God? Maybe you've hit rock-bottom, come to
your senses and decided to run to God's open arms of compassion and mercy? Or are you
one of the servants in the household, rejoicing with the father when a lost son finds his way
home?
DAY 2
Preliminary routine:
Opening Prayer;
Greetings and reminders.
Instructions to the activity#1

Submission of assignment: Reflection Essay in view of the Prodigal Son

Activity: BRAINSTORMING AND SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS/ DISCUSSION
Group Activity (7 groups of 5 members)

Transition Statement/Instructions:
The teacher provides pictures pasted in a bond paper about the new seven social
sins according to Vatican without telling the students that these are actually the new
seven social sins.
Tell the students to brainstorm, give insights, debate on the particular given topic.
Choose a leader as a facilitator, 1 secretary to take down notes and a reporter to
present the output in class after 20 minutes of sharing.

The new seven social sins according to Vatican are:
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1. ``Bioethical' violations such as birth control
2. ``Morally dubious'' experiments such as stem cell research
3. Drug abuse
4. Polluting the environment
5. Contributing to widening divide between rich and poor
6. Excessive wealth
7. Creating poverty

In other words: these are the new seven social sins.
1) politics without principle
2) wealth without work
3) commerce without morality
4) pleasure without out a conscience
5) education without discipline
6) science without humanity
7) worship without sacrifice

Presentation of outputs by group. Question and answer. Summary and Closing
activity by the teacher

Homework: In a crosswise, ask the students to research and summarize the 7 new
social sins. Explain briefly each social sin.


DAY 3
Preliminary routine:
Opening Prayer;
Greetings and reminders.
Instructions to the activity#1

Activity: INTERACTION WITH THE REFERENCE MATERIAL

Introduction and instructions: The teacher asks the students to bring out their
respective handouts. Highlight the key points and write their side notes in the said
handouts. The teacher after 15 minutes will call some students in random to go in front
and discuss a particular given keypoint/s or topic/s from the said handout.

DE LA SALLE SANTIAGO ZOBEL SCHOOL
Christian Living 4
Seniors Handout #1
SOCIAL SINS
AND SINFUL SOCIAL STRUCTURES

Introduction:
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God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him (1 Jn 4:16).
These words from the First Letter of John express with remarkable clarity the heart of the
Christian faith: the Christian image of God and the resulting image of mankind and its
destiny (Intro. Deus Caritas Est). However, our tendency to succumb to temptation because
of our pride and selfishness aggravated by the sinful structures around us fail us to live the
call to be faithful to Gods love. To combat the dark forces of evil, we need to reflect more
deeply on Gods everlasting and merciful love. Sin is a reality that we must accept. St. John
says: If we say, we are without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we
acknowledge our sins He is faithful and just and will forgive our sins and cleans us from
every wrongdoing (NAB 1 Jn. 1:8-9).


Fundamental Option
As a person goes through life he/she commits mostly good or mostly evil acts.
This leads to a pattern of action and belief about what is good and what is evil.
We call this pattern of action ones Fundamental Option.
Option means choice and the choice is between good and evil.
The Fundamental Option is a basic attitude about life that sets a pattern.
A person who has chosen to be generally good can change and make a choice toward
evil, or a generally evil person can reform and chose to be good.
Such choices would change a persons fundamental option.
Changing ones F.O. is a major life change which would have an impact on how that
person will live the rest of their life.
Changing ones F.O. is called conversion when one goes from evil to good, and
mortal sin when one goes from good to evil.


The Reality and Meaning of Sin

St. Paul warns the Colossians not to be lured by the seductive and hollow talk for this will
lead them to sin. Today, do deceivers still exist with their persuasive arguments? If we
look around us, we see signs and billboards luring us to commit sin; radio and TV deluge us
with enticing commercials, many of which to indulge in a sinful activities. Worse even,
when friends and acquaintances encourage us to pursue sinful whims. Indeed we live in a
world that encourages sinful self-indulgence with little regard for the consequences to self
and to others. Often however, we make excuses for them and do not admit that these are
sinful.

Definition of sin:
CCC 1849 defines sin as:
an offense against reason, truth, and right conscience
a failure in genuine love for God and neighbor caused by a perverse attachment to
certain goods
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an utterance, a deed, or a desire contrary to the external law
Simply put, sin is offense against God caused by a false love of self. Our willfulness
and pride makes us go against Gods will.
When we commit sin, we turn away from God who is all good. By alienating
ourselves from God, we alienate ourselves from other people and our own selves.
We are not true to our nature as an image of God.
Sin, therefore, is an act of rejecting the love of God, self and neighbor, either by
omission or commission. In refusing God and wishing to make gods of ourselves, we
deceive and destroy others and ourselves we become alienated from the truth of
our being which is the root of other forms of alienation(UC#3048)















Catechism for Filipino Catholics (CFC) 766:

CFC par. 773, Sin can have different dimensions.
It can be described as a:
SPIRAL: In a spiral manner, sin enslaves us in a
contagious, pathological habit of vice that acts
like a virus, infecting social attitudes and
structures such as family, social groups and the
like.

SICKNESS: a person who commits a sin and or
under the state of sin is considered to be sick,
that needs to be healed with forgiveness from
God as the medicine.

ADDICTION: A process over which we become
powerless as it becomes progressively more
compulsive and obsessive. Sin as addiction
leads to a pattern of ever deeper deception of

SPIRAL

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self and others, ending in the inevitable
disintegration of all our major personal and
social relationship.

Some Basics About Sin and Sinful Social Structures
Good is whatever truly helps promotes or defends human life dignity and/or
relationships.
Evil is whatever truly harms, degrades or attacks human life dignity and/or
relationships.


WHAT IS SOCIAL SIN? Sinful acts which affect other people are called social sins. Social
sins stem from self-centeredness. A person who is self-centered rejects personal
responsibility. He or she is unwilling to take the risks of sharing talents or doing the good
that is called for in a relationship. He or she does not do what ought to be done to grow in
lovehe or she fails to respond to God and others. Like Cain, the self-centered person
asks, Am I my brothers keeper? (Gen.4:9).

A social sin can refer to one or all of the following (cf. CFC 775):
1. The sins power to affect others be reason of human solidarity.
2. Sins that directly attack human rights and basic freedoms, human dignity, justice
and the common good.
3. Sins infecting relationships between various human communities, such as class
struggle or obstinate confrontation between nations.
4. Situations of sin and sinful structures that are consequences of sinful choices and
acts, like patterns of racial discrimination and economic systems of exploitation.

EXAMPLE OF SOCIAL SINS:
prostitution, white slavery, graft and corruption
unending conflict in Mindanao due to injustice and mass killings perpetrated
by dictators anxious to hold on to power and authority;
exploitation of the poor and the deprived by some wealthy nations, rich land
owners, businessmen, and industrial giants;
non-payment of taxes or cheating on taxes; use and push of prohibited drugs,
destruction of forests and degradation of natural resources for profit, and
many others

Vatican II recognizes the existence of social sins when it says: men are often
diverted from doing good and spurred toward evil by the social circumstances in
which they live disturbances (which) at a deeper level flow from mans pride and
selfishness, which contaminate even the social sphere. (GS 25). Thus, besides
personal sins, located within the individual (such as thoughts and desires of lust and
jealousy) and interpersonal sins located in relationships (like gossip and adultery),
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there are also societal sins located in social structures, situations and groups which
oppress persons, violate their human dignity, stifle freedom and foster inequality.









SINFUL SOCIAL STRUCTURES

PCP II tells us: Sin externalizes itself in human interaction. When patterns of human
interactions become habitual, a social structure develops. When the habitual patterns of
human interactions are infected by sinselfishness, injustice, pride, greed, hatredthen
we have sinful social structures.

Factors that influence:
Secularism. Secularism is a view of life that excludes God from human thinking and living.
A statement titled Secularism and given out by the bishops of the United states on
November 14, 1947, says that secularism is at the root of the worlds travail today (Catholic
Encyclopedia). Vatican II says, nowadays it seems a matter of course to reject God and
religion as incompatible with scientific progress and a new kind of humanism. In many
places, it is not only in philosophical terms that such trends are expressed, but there are
signs of them in literature, art, the humanities, the interpretation of civil law, all which is
very disturbing to many people (GS#7)

Because of secularism, many of us are caught up in the theories of some behaviorist
psychologies that identify sin with morbid guilt feelings or with mere transgression of legal
norms.

Proliferation by Mass Media. The proliferation of newspapers, magazines , radio and TV
has made information more accessible. Thus, examples of bribery and corruption and
cheating and lying in family and in personal relationships are readily available. Violence
has become a common theme in many television serials and in movies. The examples are
so many that many of us often end up rationalizing our own misdeeds with the idea that
everybody is doing it, anyway, or I had no way out, I had to do it.

Weakening of the Christian sense of sin In the past, some people had an exaggerated
attitude toward sin, where they saw sin everywhere and everything that was done. Today,
many people have replaced that exaggerated attitude of the past with an opposite
exaggeration where sin is not recognized at all because my conscience tells me it is not a
sin. This is an example of an unhealthy respect for a twisted conscience which excludes
the duty of telling the truth. The loss of a sense of sin has helped to increase cases of
A social sin is shared by many people
in varying degrees of moral blame.





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facism, sexism, misuse of the worlds goods, murder, rape cheating and failure to help the
hungry.

Consumerism Today we are bombarded with advertisements that prod us to buy goods
that will give us convenience or that will give us a feeling of class. Ever on the lookout for
things that will make our life more pleasant and easy, or for goods, the ownership of which
will put us in the same class as people who are constantly in the news, we give in to the
temptations dangled before us even if we really have no need for them. Worse, some of us
dont also have the legal resources for them so we enter a life of cheating, stealing, and graft
just as to acquire these things.
The evil of consumerism may also be seen when we become enslaved by our possessions
and obsessed with getting more. Thus, we become blind to the poverty and unjust
exploitation of others and close ourselves to our spiritual needs.

Pope John Paul II says: All of us experience firsthand the sad effects of this blind submission
to pure consumerism. In the first place a crass materialism, and at the same time, a radical
dissatisfaction because one quickly learns---unless one is shielded from the flood of
publicity and ceaseless and tempting offers of products---that the more one possesses, the
more one wants, while deeper aspirations remain unsatisfied and perhaps even stifled
(SRS#28)

Imbalances in the World today The advent of industrialization and high technology has
created a wide gap between affluent and under developed nations. While the latter
struggles to survive, some affluent nations tries to take advantage of them by exploiting
their resources, both human and natural, thus giving rise to tension between the nations
concerned. On the family level, tensions arise from economics and social pressures, from
conflicts between generations, and from a new social relationships between sexes.

On the personal level, there often arises an imbalance between outlooks of living. The
individual is torn between a modern way of thinking and a conservative one, between
concern for practicality and demand of the moral conscience.

These pressures, tensions and awareness of inequalities give rise to
distrust, animosity, conflicts and war. (GS#8)


The new seven social sins according to Vatican are:
1. ``Bioethical' violations such as birth control
2. ``Morally dubious'' experiments such as stem cell research
3. Drug abuse
4. Polluting the environment
5. Contributing to widening divide between rich and poor
6. Excessive wealth
7. Creating poverty

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In other words: these are the new seven social sins.
1) politics without principle
2) wealth without work
3) commerce without morality
4) pleasure without out a conscience
5) education without discipline
6) science without humanity
7) worship without sacrifice


PCP II#82 explains further: We can see the terrible effects of sin and sinful structures
in:
The many uncared for and malnourished children in our unjust society
The wretchedness of the jobless and homeless
The pervasiveness of graft and corruption
The lack of peace and order
The horrors of war
Sin shows itself in suffering, in the myriads suffering faces that demonstrate the
degradation of the human person, and human society, and in the destruction of our
environment that lays bare the evil shortsightedness of human greed.
Social structures are sinful when they violate and oppress human dignity, promote
individual selfishness, limit or prevent human development and growth, and treat
people, not as persons, but as mere objects, not as individuals, but as members of a
group. The effect of sinful social structures is suffering.

Jesus and the Forgiveness of Sin

The Forgiveness of Sins.
The power to forgive and heal sins, Jesus has left with the Apostles and their
successors through the sacrament of forgiveness. Receive the Holy Spirit. If you
forgive peoples sins, they are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not
forgiven (J n. 22: 22- 23).


Through the Sacrament of Reconciliation we seek healing for our sins, we are called
to conversion, a complete turning away from sins. How do we show our conversion?
CCC 1435 says: Conversion is accomplished in daily life by gestures of reconciliation,
concern for the poor, the exercise and defense of justice and right; by the admission
of faults to ones brethren, fraternal correction, revision of life, examination of
conscience, spiritual direction, acceptance of suffering, endurance of persecution for
the sake of righteousness. Taking up ones cross each day and following Jesus is the
surest way of penance.


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How can we combat the evils lurking in our society? Find out what St. Paul advises.

The Apostle Paul wrote the following letter to the Colossians while he was in prison: so let
no one deceive you with persuasive arguments. Although I am far from you, my spirit is
with you and I rejoice in recalling how well-disciplined and how firm you are in the faith of
Christ. If you have accepted Christ Jesus as Lord, let him be your doctrine. Be rooted and
built up in Him; let faith be your principle, as you were taught, and your thanksgiving
overflowing. See that no one deceives you with philosophy or any hollow discourse.(Col.
2:4-8)


After the students submitted the Task Sheet#1, the teacher will project on screen the
Lesson Proper through Powerpoint presentation in view of the Church Social Teachings.












GROWING AGAINST SOCIAL SINS AND SINFUL SOCIAL STRUCTURES
: Lesson Proper

FUNDAMENTALS
OF SIN
Sin is understood in relation to freedom
and Conscience. As the violation of
conscience, it rejects the good or value
that the person is obliged to do. Sin has
real consequences on others for it violates
the fundamental human values of
interpersonal and social relations.

SIN
Church Teaching: CFC , par. 773
Sin can have different dimensions. It can be
described as a:
SPIRAL
As spiral that enslave us in a contagious,
pathological habit of vice that acts like a
virus, infecting social attitudes and
structures such as family, social groups
and the like.

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SIN
Church Teaching: CFC , par. 773
Sin can have different dimensions. It can be
described as a:
SPIRAL
As spiral that enslave us in a contagious,
pathological habit of vice that acts like a
virus, infecting social attitudes and
structures such as family, social groups
and the like.

SIN
SICKNESS
a person who commits a sin and or
under the state of sin is considered
to be sick, that needs to be
healed with forgiveness from God as
the medicine.

SIN
ADDICTION
A process over which we become
powerless as it becomes progressively
more compulsive and obsessive. Sin as
addiction leads to a pattern of ever
deeper deception of self and others,
ending in the inevitable disintegration of
all our major personal and social
relationship.
SIN
Catechism for Filipino Catholic 1806
Mortal Sins
sins which lead to death, the loss of true
or eternal life. They are mortal because
they kill and destroy the over all LOVE
pattern of our relationship with God, our
fundamental core freedom as related to
God. By such sins, a person freely
rejects God, and his law of love.

SIN
Catechism for Filipino Catholic 1806
Venial Sins venia meaning pardon or
forgiveness.
Venial sins are excusable sins which do
not involve the persons fundamental
freedom nor lead to spiritual death. Venial
sins harm our relationship with God and
others by undermining the fervor of our life
of charity, and gradually lead to mortal
sins.

BASICS OF SIN
Good is whatever truly helps
promotes or defends human life
dignity and/or relationships.
Evil is whatever truly harms,
degrades or attacks human life
dignity and/or relationships.


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Fundamental Option
As a person goes through life
he/she commits mostly good
or mostly evil acts.
This leads to a pattern of
action and belief about
what is good and what is evil.

Fundamental Option
We call this pattern of action
ones Fundamental Option.
Option means choice
and the choice is between
good and evil.


Fundamental Option
A person who has chosen to
be generally good can
change and make a choice
toward evil, or a generally
evil person can reform and
chose to be good.

Fundamental Option
Such choices would change
a persons fundamental
option.
Changing ones F.O. is a
major life change which
would have an impact on
how that person will live the
rest of their life.


Fundamental Option
Changing ones F.O. is
called conversion when
one goes from evil to
good, and mortal sin
when one goes from good
to evil.

What is SIN?
Sin is the willing refusal of God, his
ways and/or his laws.
All sins have three components
that make them sins.
Real evil done.
Prior knowledge of the evil.
Free choice to commit the evil.


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Real Evil Done
Sin is not theoretical, but actual.
There has to be real harm done
to:
Another person or persons,
Oneself, or
Ones relationship with God.
No harm, no foul.

Prior knowledge of the evil.
Sin is about what a person is
personally responsible for. If
a person does not
understand that a thing is
harmful or could not foresee
the harmful effect, then s/he
is not responsible or not fully
responsible.


Prior knowledge of the evil.
In order for a person to be
responsible for an evil
action, they have to know
that the act is evil before
they do it.

Prior knowledge of the evil.
If a person chooses a course
of action that has two
effects, one good and one
evil, this is allowable if the
good far outweighs the evil
and the evil effect is not
intended, only tolerated.
This is called the principle of
double effect.


Free choiceto commit
the evil.
When a person chooses an
action knowing that real
harm will be done, and s/he
chooses the action because
it will be harmful, the person
has chosen an act that is
against God and his ways
and laws.

Free choiceto commit
the evil.
For a person to make a free
choice, two things must be
present:
real options to choose from
adequate freedom from
outside pressures


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Real Options
Real Options mean that there
has to be more than one way a
person could reasonably decide
to take.
If a person has no choice
then s/he is not exercising
freedom but is being forced by
the situation.

Adequate Freedom from Outside
Pressures
Every situation my have some
outside pressure steering a
person toward one choice or
another.


Adequate Freedom from
Outside Pressures
If force, fear, immaturity, mental
or emotional impairment,
hardships to self or loved ones,
or other coercive factors insist
that a person take a particular
course of action, the persons
freedom has been taken away
and s/he is not responsible.

Mortal Sinvs. Venial Sin
Mortal sin is an action which
constitutes a negative or evil
fundamental option.
Three things must be present in
order for a sin to be mortal:
Grave matter,
Prior knowledge of the serious
evil,
A full commitment of the will.


Mortal Sinvs. Venial Sin
Grave matter is the traditional
term for serious evil.
Little things dont separate us
from God, so the evil involved in
a mortal sin has to be significant
- it has to be really bad.

Mortal Sinvs. Venial Sin
Grave matter is the traditional
term for serious evil.
Little things dont separate us
from God, so the evil involved in
a mortal sin has to be significant
- it has to be really bad.


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Mortal Sinvs. Venial Sin
Prior knowledge of the serious
evil. This criteria repeats the
second condition for any sin. The
person has to know that what
they are about to do is seriously
evil.

Mortal Sinvs. Venial Sin
A full commitment of the will.
This is the traditional term for a
the person knowing the serious
evil involved and choosing the
action because it will cause
serious harm to oneself, others,
and ones relationship with God.

Mortal Sinvs. Venial Sin
As if the person says, I know
this is very bad, and thats
exactly what I want.
A choice like this rejects God and
his authority over the person. In
short, the person thumbs their
nose at God.

Mortal Sinvs. Venial Sin
If any one of the three
conditions are not met, the sin
is not mortal.


Mortal Sinvs. Venial Sin
People do not commit mortal sins
very often because it is rare that
a person truly knows how evil
what s/he is about to do, or s/he
does not fully intent the evil
outcome.
When all three conditions are not
met, this is called a venial sin.

Serious Sin
Traditionally, mortal sins are
thought of as the big sins and
venial as the little sins.
In recent years moral scholars
have proposed a third category
of sin, serious sins.


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Serious Sin
Serious Sins refer to any sin
that involves grave matter, but
does not involve either the prior
knowledge of or the choice for
the evil, or both.

Serious Sin
Serious Sins refer to any sin
that involves grave matter, but
does not involve either the prior
knowledge of or the choice for
the evil, or both.

Serious Sin
Serious sins should be given
great attention because they do
involve great evil and may very
easily lead to greater
responsibility or even mortal sin
if one continues to commit these
seriously wrong actions.

All Sins Are Worth
Our Attention
Even if our sins are all venial, they
should be treated seriously and we
should do our best to conquer them
because;
God is calling us to be perfect
as he is perfect. There is no
prize for good enough.



DAY 4
Preliminary routine:
Opening Prayer;
Greetings and reminders.

Continuation of the Lesson Proper
FORMAL GRADED RECITATION (Individual)
Homework: Gospel Reflection Number 5
DAY 5
Preliminary routine:
Opening Prayer:
Greetings and reminders
LONG TEST 2
PROCESSING ACTIVITY: (Individual output)
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1. In a crosswise paper, write a REFLECTION on what you think are the implications and
challenges of these social sins and sinful social structures of our society in relation to the
lessons we had before in module 2, Church Social teachings.
2. Among the various social sins, which for you is the most harmful and why? Explain.
Answer/Do the Task sheet#1
DE LA SALLE SANTIAGO-ZOBEL SCHOOL
CHRISTIAN LIVING HIGH SCHOOL
SENIORS, SY 2010 - 2011
C.N. SCORE
NAME: _________________________SR. ______DATE: _______________
Task Sheet#1
PROCESSING QUESTIONS:
1.What do you think are the reason why people commit social sins and why do social
sinful structures happen in society.
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2. How can mass media become a sinful social structure? Explain
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3. Explain the relationship between the upsurge of cellphone snatching, cyber bullying
and pornography, facebooks social network abuses and the like to the sinful social
structure called consumerism.
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4. Explain why secularism or excluding God from our thinking and living leads us to
commit sin.
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CAPSULIZATION/SUMMARY:
DAY 6
Preliminary routine:
Opening Prayer:
Greetings and reminders
Activity#2: Presentation of Term 1 group Major Project
-Discussion of the rubric
-Presentation of the guidelines and the set of panelists
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Homework: Required reading
Instruction: Read, comprehend and write a 1 page reflection/critical analysis of the
article in view of social sin and sinful social structures:

Understanding Social Sin Today
http://www.americancatholic.org/Newsletters/CU/ac0197.asp
by Richard M. Gula, S.S.
"Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. It has been six weeks since my last confession. I lost my
patience three times; I lied twice; I missed Mass once; I had impure thoughts twice and I
gossiped about my neighbor four times."
Sound familiar? The above confession reflects an understanding of the moral life and sin
that prevailed among Roman Catholics for centuries. But in the last half of this century,
many changes have been occurring in the way we think about morality and sin. These
changes have resulted in part from new ways of understanding what it means to be
human. They also come from rediscovering old ideas that the Bible and Jesus taught
about how we ought to relate to God and to one another.
Sin as crime
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There was a time when Catholics thought that living morally was mostly a matter of
obeying the lawthe divine law or the commandments of God, the ecclesial (Church)
laws or the natural laws expressed in the moral teaching of the Church. "It's in the Bible"
or "The Church says so" were often our most important reasons for being moral.
Sin was like a crime, a transgression of the law. It was akin to breaking the speed limit on
the highway. The law is what made an action sinful. Where there was no clear-cut law
(no speed limit), there was no question of sin (go as fast as you want).
Catholic theology has since come to realize that the legal model for understanding the
moral life and sin is deficient. For one thing, the demands of being a faithful follower of
Jesus, of living according to the vision and values of the gospel, stretch us farther than
what can be prescribed by law.
But no one is trying to do away with laws. We know that laws will always be necessary
to help us live together well. Just as our city streets would be chaos without traffic laws,
so our living together would be a moral chaos without laws like those about telling the
truth, respecting property and protecting life.
But laws cannot possibly cover all the decisions that we have to make. The legal model of
the moral life too easily makes moral living a matter of repeating the same old behaviors
even though weand our worldhave changed. The legal model also tends to focus too
much on the actions that we do as being sinful or not. Did I miss Mass? Did I cheat on an
exam or on my taxes? Did I disobey my parents?
Laws by themselves don't address the important realities of the heart, such as our
attitudes (Are we kind or hostile?), intentions (Do we strive to be helpful or self-
serving?) and ways of seeing things (Do we look through the eyes of faith? Are we
optimistic or pessimistic?). Jesus reminds us that what comes from the heart is what
makes one sinful. Sinful actions are like the tip of an iceberg being held above the surface
by a wayward heart (see Is 29:13; Mk 7:21; Mt 23:25-26; Lk 6:45).
The legal model also tends to make the moral life too centered on one's self. Sin affects
me and my salvation. Saving my soul through obedience is the guiding moral principle
according to this model. This leaves out, however, the all-important relational
dimensions of sin and conversion. As St. Paul teaches, no one lives for oneself (Rom
14:7). As the Body of Christ, we suffer together and rejoice together (1 Cor 12:26-27).
Because we share a common world, we are part of a network of relationships that joins
each of us in responsibility to others and to all of creation. We all know that we violate
the ecological balance of nature when we put toxins into our air and water or throw
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hamburger foil wrappers out the car window. We violate our moral ecology when we
create discord, dissension, fear, mistrust and alienation in the web of life's relationships.
Sin's new look
A new look at the moral life has been informed by the biblical renewal in the Church and
by some philosophical shifts within the Church and society.
For example, the biblical renewal has given us covenant, heart and conversionnot
lawas our primary moral concepts. Responsibility has replaced obligation as the
primary characteristic of the moral life. Shifts in philosophy have emphasized the dignity
of persons and the value of sharing life in society. Together these shifts in theology and
philosophy support a relational model of the moral life. The relational model emphasizes
personal responsibility for protecting the bonds of peace and justice that sustain human
relationships.
What might a contemporary confession sound like that reflects the relational model of
the moral life?
"Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. It has been six weeks since my last confession. I am a
husband, a father of three teenage children, and I hold an executive position in a large
computer firm.
"Over the past month I have allowed love to grow cold at home and in my work. At home, I
have been inattentive to my wife and children as I allowed my new projects at work to
consume most of my time and attention. I have spent more time at work and little time
with the family. At work, I have selfishly neglected to disclose some data which my
colleagues needed for a new project. I wanted to gain the glory. I have also failed to support
a female colleague who was clearly being sexually harassed and I failed to confront those
who were doing the harassing.
"I think a good penance for me, Father, would be to take the family on a picnic this week
and to make a special effort to affirm my junior colleagues for the great work they have
been doing."
This penitent senses how he is affecting the quality of life and love in his primary
relationships. He also knows what he can do to show conversion. His confession reflects
contemporary theology's emphasis on responsibility to others over the traditional
overemphasis on what is allowed or forbidden by law. Rather than focusing just on
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committing sinful acts, it shows that sin is also an omission, a failure to do what ought to
be done.
Far from doing away with sin, contemporary theology admits that sin is very much with
us and touches us more deeply than we realize. Greed, violence, corruption, poverty,
hunger, sexism and oppression are too prevalent to ignore.
Sin is just as basic a term in our Christian vocabulary today as it has been in the past. Its
root sense means to be disconnected from God through the failure to love. In sin, we
simply don't bother about anyone outside ourselves. Sin is first a matter of a selfish
hearta refusal to carebefore it shows itself in actions. Because loving God and loving
our neighbor are all tied together, sin will always be expressed in and through our
relationships.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church affirms that, just as the least of our acts done in
charity has some benefit for all, so every sin causes some harm. The Catechism quotes
Scripture to make this point: "None of us lives for oneself, and none of us dies for
oneself" (Rom 14:7); "If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is
honored, all rejoice together. Now you are the body of Christ and individually members
of it" (1 Cor 12:26-27); "Charity does not insist on its own way" (1 Cor 13:5; see 10:24).
In this solidarity with all people, says the Catechism, "living or dead, which is founded on
the communion of saints, the least of our acts done in charity redounds to the profit of
all. Every sin harms this communion" (#953).
One of the most obvious changes in a contemporary approach to sin is the emphasis
given to how sin affects the quality of life and love in our relationships. Sin is any action
or omission that hinders, violates or breaks right relationships which support human well-
being. For example, if I spread gossip or fail to correct a false rumor about a co-worker, I
am not only failing in my relationship to that person, but also impairing the quality of life
in the workplace.
My favorite example of how this relational vision of sin and the moral life influenced
another's behavior came from my five-year-old niece, Julia. She listened to a
conversation I was having with her eight-year-old sister about what she was being
taught in her preparation for first Penance. The lesson on sin was filled with stories of
relationships and the difference between loving and unloving choices. The next day,
when Julia came home from kindergarten, I asked her how her day was. She said, "I had a
good day." When I asked her what made it good, she said, "I had an opportunity to make
a loving choice. Kenny forgot to bring a snack today, so I gave him one of my pretzels."
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Julia learned quite well that right moral living begins with caring for one another: paying
attention to another's needs and acting in a way that enhances another's well-being. Sin,
by contrast, turns in and sets oneself against another. Self-serving interests destroy the
bonds of peace and justice that ought to sustain us.
Closing Prayer

DAY 7-8
Preliminary routine:
Opening Prayer:
Greetings and reminders
APPLICATION AND SYNTHESIS
Group Presentation of the 7 New Social Sins from the Vatican
The teacher will ask someone to make a recap in view of the previous activities
regarding social sins and sinful social structures.
The teacher now will call each family/group to do the powerpoint presentation of
the social sins
Flow of the powerpoint output:
o Introduction
o Analysis of the particular Social Sin
o Solutions (Collective suggested solutions to address the problems)
o Synthesis and Evaluation
o Summary and Conclusion
The teacher will assign 4 panelists to serve as jury and to ask questions and
clarifications to the reporters.
Part II.
REPORTING OF THE PROGRESS OF THE PROJECT
FORMAL GRADED RECITATION

Assignment: PREPARE FOR QUIZ#2

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DAY 9
Preliminary routine:
Opening Prayer:
Greetings and reminders

VALUING:
OBEDIENCE TO
AUTHORITY


Quiz#2

MODULE CLOSURE ACTIVITY:
Task Sheet#2

DELA SALLE SANTIAGO-ZOBEL SCHOOL
CHRISTIAN LIVING SENIORS
TERM 1

INSIGHT-REFLECTION-CHALLENGE AND COMMENTARY SHEET(IRCC)
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LESSON/TOPIC
Name:_____________________________________Senior_______Date: ___________
My Insights on the Lesson/Topic.
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My Reflection on the Lesson/Topic:
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The Challenge of the Lesson
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Comments:
A. Lesson Procedure/Activity/ies:
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B. Teacher

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CLOSING PRAYER:
Prayer For the people in society
afflicted with various sinful social
structures
Ever living God, whose will it is that all should come to you through your Son Jesus Christ:
Inspire our witness to him, that all may know the power of his forgiveness and the hope of
his resurrection; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for
ever. Amen.