Catechesis  Universal law – unchanging

 Natural law – law of nature of human

 It is an education in the faith of children, adults,
and young people.
 It includes teaching of Christian doctrine
imparted, generally speaking, in an organic and
systematic way.
 Catholic – follower of God and Church
Freedom
Basic Prayers
 Mysteries of the Holy Rosary
- The Joyful Mysteries – Mary
- Luminous Mysteries – Miracles
- Glorious Mysteries – Resurrection and
Coronation
- Sorrowful Mysteries – Sufferings
 3 o’clock Prayer – the hour of Great Mercy (the
death of Christ)
 Divine law – From God based on Bible.
 Human law – made by humans.
 Your conscience is trained by what you believe.
 It changes based on what your knowledge and
values change.
 Quality or state of being free (Webster
dictionary)
 Freedom from and Freedom for.
 Authentic Freedom is not “The right thing to say
and do anything,” but to “do the good.”
 Divine Image – Human dignity
 Human dignity – deserving to be respected and
valued.

Flow of Mass
1. Introductory Rites – Processional
2. Liturgy of the Word – Scriptural readings
3. Liturgy of the Eucharist – offering and
communion
4. Concluding rites – final prayer and blessing

The Human Person as an Image of God,

Bestowed with Intellect and Free Will
 Humans are superior in God’s creation.
 intellect and freewill that other creations
doesn’t have.

Image and Likeness of God

 representing God
 freewill to decide.

Adam and Eve

 Mankind’s superiority over lesser creatures

 Rationality and spirituality
 Capacity to know and worship God.
 Original Sin
- Fruit of Knowledge
- The fall of man

Intellect and Freewill

 Intellect – ability to learn and know. Power or

faculty of the mind by which one knows or
understands.
 Freewill – voluntary choice and decisions.
 Values – characteristics/pinapahalagahan.
 Virtue – laging ginagawa ang values.

Formation of Moral Conscience Based on

Natural Moral Law
 Conscience – guilt
 Moral law – standard of right and wrong