Christian Morality with Introduction to

Catholic Social Teachings

Main Reference: Living Like Jesus
by Fr. Lode Wostyn, CICM
 Course Outline
• Towards Understanding Christian Morality
• Relating with One’s Body, Nature, and Cosmos
• Relating with Other Persons
• Relating with Community, Society, Institutions,
and Social Structures
• Relating with Culture and History
• Relating with Thinking and Acting
• Relating with the Absolute
• Human Dignity
• Freedom
• Conscience
• Sense of Sin
• Purpose of Human Existence
• Member of the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB)
• Asst. Sec. of the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO)
• Deputy Exe. Dir. of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA)
What is Freedom?
 Criteria for What Conditions What Conditions
(things, experiences, (things, experiences,
Freedom values) should be values) should be
ABSENT so that we PRESENT so that we
can be truly free? can be truly free?

1. 1.
2. 2.
As Individuals 3. 3.
4. 4.
5. 5.

1. 1.
2. 2.
As a 3. 3.
Community 4. 4.
5. 5.
“Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.”
(2 Cor 3:17)
 Freedom
– is something we experience as persons – in our
capacity to choose, in our individual choices, and in the
persons we become because of our choices.
 “There are set before you fire and water; to
whichever you choose, stretch forth your hand.
Before man are life and death, whichever he
chooses shall be given him.”
(Sir. 15:14-17)
Bukas Palad Music Ministry
 “If you
remain in my
word, you
will know the
truth, and
the truth will
set you free.”
(Jn. 8: 31-32)
Authentic exercise of TRUE FREEDOM
is not “doing anything I want”
but doing the good.
“Lord by your cross and resurrection, you have set us free.
You are the savior of the world.”
- Memorial Acclamation, Celebration of the Holy Eucharist