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Understanding Conscience: The Guide to Following Your Inner Voice

This assignment explores the meaning of "following your conscience" and emphasizes its significance in moral decision-making. It delves into the inadequacies of popular definitions of conscience and presents a deeper understanding encompassing awareness, discernment, and judgment. The necessity of aligning our actions with our conscience is highlighted, drawing on Scripture and Tradition. We will also analyze how our upbringing influences our perceptions of conscience and how being true to ourselves requires adherence to this moral compass.

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Understanding Conscience: The Guide to Following Your Inner Voice

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  1. Assignment: What does it mean to “follow your conscience?” And how do you know that following your conscience is the right thing to do?

  2. Conscience Being True to ourselves

  3. Chapter Objectives • Recognize that popular uses of the word “conscience” are frequently inadequate to describe all that the term involves. • Realize that a fuller understanding of conscience includes 3 dimensions

  4. Chapter Objectives • Know that Scripture and Tradition emphasize the importance of using our conscience to make informed moral decisions • To understand that our dignity as persons created by God requires us to follow our conscience

  5. Assignment: • Do Activity D on page 45 • Answer all questions in your notebooks

  6. Popular Descriptions of Conscience: An inner Voice

  7. Popular Descriptions of Conscience Our Upbringing

  8. Popular Descriptions of Conscience A feeling

  9. Conscience • Latin root: “to know” has to do with knowing, refers to an action rather than a thing • A moral decision-making ability, or action, centering on what a person has already done or ought to do.

  10. Conscience • It’s a moral decision making involving : • an awareness that there is right and wrong: • a process of discernment • and finally judgment

  11. Conscience • The voice of God the Father echoing in our hearts • At the core of who we are • Has nothing to do with what “we want to do” ; instincts and desires can muddle our conscience

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