Values Education - Grade 9 In His goodness, God created us free human persons, set

LECTURE – 2nd Quarter apart from the rest of creation, yet charged with
responsibility over it. Because we are made in the image of
PARTS OF THE ROSARY God, who freely choose to share His goodness with us, we are
called to “DO THE GOOD.”

WHAT IS FREEDOM?
• Being truly free means growing in our capacity to act
RESPONSIBLY.
– Following the commandments of God.

AM I FREE?
• There are some, however, who want to make their
human freedom ABSOLUTE, while there are others,
more CYNICAL, who say that we are not free at all.
• As we grow up, we naturally gain more experience
and more responsibilities. Because of this, some
people are strongly tempted to think that their
freedom ought to be LIMITLESS. They feel that they
should be able to do whatever they want even if it
destroys the true freedom of others.

FREEDOM IN THE OLD TESTAMENT

FREEDOM AND GOD’S LAW
1. Sign of the Cross – The EXODUS (exit) of the ISRAELITES from their slavery
Apostle’s Creed and suffering in EGYPT to a new life of freedom and
2. The Lord’s Prayer dignity as God’s people.
3. 3 Hail Mary – Through His servant MOSES, God delivered the Israelites
4. Glory Be from hardship and injustice by performing SIGNS and
First Mystery WONDERS
The Lord’s Prayer • By sending PLAGUES upon Egypt (Ex 7-11)
5. 10 Hail Mary • By bringing His people safely across the RED SEA (Ex
6. Glory Be 14)
Fatima Prayer • By providing them with their basic needs as they
Second Mystery crossed the desert to reach MT. SINAI (Ex 16-17)
The Lord’s Prayer – It was on Mt. Sinai that God gave His people a lasting sign
7. 10 Hail Mary of His call for all persons to be truly free - the
8. Glory Be DECALOGUE (Ex 20:1-17; Dt 5:6-21)..
Fatima Prayer – These TEN WORDS summarize and express our most
Third Mystery basic duties and rights. They protect and promote
The Lord’s Prayer authentic freedom by commanding all persons not to
9. 10 Hail Mary worship false gods, kill, steal, lie, and commit adultery
10. Glory Be and all abuses of human freedom.
Fatima Prayer
Fourth Mystery THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OF GOD
The Lord’s Prayer 1. You shall not have other gods besides me.
11. 10 Hail Mary 2. You shall not take the name of the Lord, your God, in
12. Glory Be vain.
Fatima Prayer 3. Take care to keep holy the Sabbath day.
Fifth Mystery 4. Honor your father and your mother.
The Lord’s Prayer 5. You shall not kill.
13. 10 Hail Mary 6. You shall not commit adultery.
14. Glory Be 7. You shall not steal.
Fatima Prayer 8. You shall not bear dishonest witness against your
Hail Holy Queen neighbor.
Closing Prayer 9. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife.
Sign of the Cross
HUMAN FREEDOM
 10. You shall not desire your neighbor’s house or field… The Subjective Dimension of Human Conscience
nor anything that belongs to him - The person’s norm of judging moral good or evil.

The first THREE commandments, concretely expressing how
we should love and worship God, ground the other SEVEN,
which express how we should love our neighbor.
- By keeping God’s law, our basic rights to life,
property, honor, and marriage are protected.
The Objective Dimension of Human Conscience
- Our conscience, while intimately ours, is formed by the
universal values and norms we learn from others.
UNDERSTANDING THE TRUE VALUE OF LAW

FREEDOM IS RELATIONAL WHAT IS A JUST LAW?

• Our true freedom is always lived in the community • An ordinance or REASON.
before God. This means that because we are created • Is PROPERLY PROMULGATED.
by God as PERSONS-IN-COMMUNITY, our freedom is • Must be decreed by competent AUTHORITY.
always relational. True freedom is fostered when • For the sake of the COMMON GOOD.
people respect the freedom and dignity of each
other. NATURAL LAW
It is the universal moral law grounded on our human nature
TRUE FREEDOM IS DOING THE GOOD and knowable through human reason.
True freedom, therefore, is not our capacity to do
anything we want, but our capacity to do what we should as DIVINE LAW
person-in-community. In short, TRUE FREEDOM IS DOING THE From Sacred Scripture, we discover moral laws revealed to us
GOOD. by God.
Ex. The Ten Commandments
HUMAN CONSCIENCE
The CONSCIENCE or TINIG NG BUDHI guides us in our CHURCH LAW
moral living These are expressions of Christ’s laws of love in the particular
circumstances of Christian living.
WHAT CONSCIENCE IS NOT?
Misconception 1: CIVIL LAW
CONSCIENCE IS INDIVIDUALISTIC Human made in order to bind all citizens of a nation.
- Doing things “MY WAY” without considering the good of
others.

Misconception 2:
CONSCIENCE IS GOD’S VOICE WITHIN US
- Means sometimes our conscience can mistakenly judge
something objectively evil to be good or something
objectively good to be evil.

Misconception 3:
CONSCIENCE IS OUR FEELING OF GUILT
Ex.- “nakakakonsensya ang ginawa ko.”

Misconception 4:
MEDIA’S DEPICTION OF CONSCIENCE AS AN EXTERNAL
REALITY IS ACCURTE
Ex.- Angel and Devil on my shoulders.

CONSCIENCE MORALLY OBLIGES US

All persons have a conscience. We all have the human
capacity to use our reason
(1) to discern and judge the moral goodness or evil of a
particular act (2) with the feeling of being morally obliged to
do what is good and what is evil (CFC 723).

With this understanding of conscience, we realize that as

persons, we are called not only to judge what is morally good
but also “TO DO THE RIGHT AND LOVE GOODNESS” (Mi 6:8).