[3] Spirituality of Mercy Flashcards

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There is… a spirit of hedonism aboard today which beguiles men into thinking that life is nothing more than the quest for pleasure and satisfaction of human passions

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Mater et Magistra, 235

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Means ‘pleasure’ in Greek

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Hedonism

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The doctrine that pleasure (sensual pleasure) is the ultimate goal of life, man’s highest good & greatest happiness; Devotion to pleasure and self-gratification as a way of life; This philosophy is more often promoted through advertisements

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Hedonism

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Wants to have a pleasurable life to avoid any forms of suffering in life.

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Hedonist

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He stated “it is also necessary to reject the….total technical dominion over nature, because the natural environment is material to be manipulated at our pleasure”

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Benedict XVI, Caritas in Veritas, 48

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This invites contemporary society to a serious review of its life-style, which, in many parts of the world, is prone to ________________, regardless of their harmful consequence

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Hedonism and Consumerism

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Ideology that emphasizes the acquisition and consumption of goods and services as a primary way of life.

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Consumerism

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T/F: Reducing nature merely to a collection of contingent data ends up doing good to the environment and even encouraging activity that fails to respect human nature itself.

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FALSE

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Pope Francis stated that we have created a ___________ which is now spreading

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Throw away Culture

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Ruthlessly consumes, exploits, and discards human life and our natural resources as one of the root causes.

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Throw away Culture

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Overflowing landfills, broken relationships, forgotten people, abandoned beliefs, dilapidated dreams

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Signs of Throw away culture

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12
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What legal provision has been passed for resolving throwaway culture

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RA 9003 Ecological Solid Waste Management Act 2000

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The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense ___________.

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Pile of filth

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T/F: Our present system of discards management is management and not disposal.

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FALSE

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Also known as collect and dump system, that is not ecological.

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Hakot/Tambak

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16
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The excluded are not the “__________” but the outcast, the “____________”.

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Exploited; Leftovers

17
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To hear both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor

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Laudato Si, 49

18
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Today, however, we have to realize that a true ecological approach always becomes a ______________

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Social approach

19
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It is a spirit- filled movement of the heart that arises from our own experience of God’s mercy

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Spirituality of Mercy

20
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The spirituality of mercy lives both the ___________ and ____________ actions of mercy.

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Corporal; Spiritual

21
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T/F: As followers of Christ, mercy is indeed is our vocation.

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TRUE

22
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T/F: If we are truly faithful to God’s call to be merciful, it does not necessarily mean to include the natural world, the environment and non-human creatures.

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FALSE

23
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T/F: Living our vocation to be protectors of God’s handiwork is essential to a life of virtue; although it can be an option or a secondary aspect of our Christian experience.

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FALSE

24
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He believed that the virtue of “mercy” is the “the compassion in our hearts for another person’s misery, a compassion which drives us to do what we can to help him.

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St. Thomas Aquinas

25
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Two aspects of spirituality of mercy

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Affective mercy and effective mercy

26
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The emotion that we feel pity for those who suffer because we too are subject to such miseries which arises from our capacity for empathy

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Affective mercy

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It is something that we do, a positive action for the good of another, taking steps to relieve the miseries or meet the needs of others.

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Effective mercy

28
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In Latin, it means having a miserable heart for another person’s misery

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Misericordia

29
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Must be rooted in right reason, Effective action for the good of others

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2 additional characteristics of mercy

30
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Indicates in the direction of gratitude for an unmerited gift and unmerited grace

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Mercy

31
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Hebrew language that can be used in English which means mercy

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Chesed

32
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In Biblical and in Christian Augustinian language the ________ (cor) is the center of the human person and the seat not only of the emotions, but of conscience, determination and responsibility.

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Heart

33
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T/F: Mercy can become a mere parenthesis in the life of the Church

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FALSE

34
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Served as antidote to the double degradation brought about by the throw-away culture :

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Culture of care

35
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Laudato Si mentioned the word “care” ___ times, while “stewardship” only ____

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35 times; twice

36
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There has been a shift from duty-based ethics to a __________________

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Virtue-based ethics of care

37
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Objectification, Consumption, Maximization/squandering, Wasting/depleting, Disposal

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Throw away culture (Sawà)

38
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Contemplation, Compassion, Care, Communion

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Culture of Mercy (Awà)