Unit 5 morality

Question 1

What is morality?

Answer 1

Is principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behavior.

Question 2

What are the 3 sources of morality?

Answer 2

(1) intention, (2) moral object, (3) circumstances.

Question 3

Why should we be moral?

Answer 3

Without such rules people would not be able to live amongst other humans.

Question 4

What is sacred music?

Answer 4

Is a type of music that is performed or composed for religious use or through religious influence.

Question 5

What is Halloween?

Answer 5

Is a celebration observed in many countries on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Saints’ Day.

Question 6

What is All Saints Day?

Answer 6

is a Christian solemnity celebrated in honour of all the saints of the church, whether they are known or unknown.

Question 7

What is All Souls Day?

Answer 7

Is a day of prayer and remembrance for the faithful departed, observed by certain Christian denominations on 2 November.

Question 8

What is “canonized (saints)?

Answer 8

Is the declaration of a deceased person as an officially recognized saint, specifically, the official act of a Christian communion declaring a person worthy of public veneration and entering their name in the canon catalogue of saints, or authorized list of that communion’s recognized saints

Question 9

Why should we love?

Question 10

What are the 10 commandments?

Answer 10

You shall have no other gods before Me.

You shall not make idols.

You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain.

Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

Honor your father and your mother.

You shall not murder.

You shall not commit adultery.

You shall not steal.

You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

You shall not covet.

Question 11

What commandments are about God?

Answer 11

The first 3

Question 12

What commandments are about your neighbor?

Answer 12

The last 7

Question 13

What is the Decalogue? What is its purpose/meaning?

Answer 13

The Ten Commandments, a basic set of rules that must be obeyed.

Question 14

What are some examples of sins?

Answer 14

Sloth, plagiarism, Gluttony, Lust, Greed,
Pride, etc.

Question 15

What is conscience?

Answer 15

an inner feeling or voice viewed as acting as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of one’s behavior.

Question 16

What is freedom?

Answer 16

the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restrain

Question 17

What is free will?

Answer 17

the power of acting without the constraint of necessity or fate; the ability to act at one’s own discretion.

Question 18

What is responsibility?

Answer 18

the state or fact of having a duty to deal with something or of having control over someone.

Question 19

What is the Great Commandment? What is its purpose/meaning?

Answer 19

is a name used in the New Testament to describe the first of two commandments cited by Jesus, love for God and love for our neighbor

Question 20

What are the 8 Beatitudes?

Answer 20

Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are the meek: for they shall possess the land.
Blessed are they who mourn: for they shall be comforted.
Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after justice: for they shall have their fill.
Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
Blessed are the clean of heart: for they shall see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
Blessed are they that suffer persecution for justice’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Question 21

Who is St. Martin de Porres? What is he known for?

Answer 21

was a Peruvian lay brother of the Dominican Order who was beatified, multiplying food to help feed the monks and the poor

Question 22

Who is St. Charles Borromeo? What is he known for?

Answer 22

was the Archbishop of Milan from 1564 to 1584 and a cardinal of the Catholic Church.

Question 23

What is grace?

Answer 23

simple elegance or refinement of movement.

Question 24

What is sin?

Answer 24

an immoral act considered to be a transgression against divine law

Question 25

What is temptation?

Answer 25

the desire to do something, especially something wrong or unwise.

Question 26

What are mortal and venial sins?

Answer 26

Mortal sins are grave offenses that sever our friendship with God and, consequently, cause a loss of sanctifying grace. Anyone dying in a state of mortal sin would suffer eternal separation from God in Hell. Venial sins are lesser offenses that injure but do not destroy one’s relationship with God.

Question 27

What is original sin?

Answer 27

the tendency to sin innate in all human beings, held to be inherited from Adam in consequence of the Fall.

Question 28

What is virtue?

Answer 28

behavior showing high moral standards.

Question 29

What is vice?

Answer 29

immoral or wicked behavior.

Question 29

What are the three theological virtues?

Answer 29

Faith, Hope, and Charity

Question 30

What is character?

Answer 30

the way someone thinks, feels, and behaves

Question 31

How do character and virtues work together?

Answer 31

Growing in the virtues, especially prudence (knowing what to seek and what to avoid) forms good character.

Question 32

What are the four cardinal virtues?

Answer 32

They are prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance.