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Grades 7-9 Sunday Group Virtual Lesson 3/22/26

- Parish Life

Due to Spring Break travel plans, there will be no in-person student sessions for the Sunday Grades 7-9 Group on Sunday, March 22nd or Sunday, March 29th. There was a session scheduled for Sunday, March 22nd but that has been moved to a virtual lesson. Please watch the Symbolon for Teens video here https://app.formed.org/app/videos/582806?cid=748877 and answer the below questions. Your form will be counted for attendance.

*Students who normally attend Sunday, should NOT attend the session on Wednesday, March 18th because they are not on the same lesson which will lead to them doing repeat lessons. Please complete lesson by Monday, March 23rd.

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Living the Creed: A Catholic Moral Vision (Session 6)
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- Scene 1
  Dr. Sri references the fresco paintings of the cardinal virtues by Raphael inside the Vatican museums. In them we see a beautiful vision of the Catholic moral life. To be virtuous is to live a joy-filled life. The cardinal virtues are prudence, temperance, fortitude, and justice. Prudence is to know what is true and good, temperance and fortitude is to have the self-control and courage to do what is true and good, and justice is giving to others what is true and good.
  
  Prudence is depicted as a woman with two faces—one face looking back and the other face looking into a mirror. There is a cupid, Hope, behind her holding a flaming torch. If prudence is “sound judgment,” how does this scene depict this virtue?
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- Temperance, or self-control, is depicted as a lady pulling back the reins, not letting herself be enslaved by pleasure. She is guarding the cupid Faith, who is pointing at the sky with his right hand. How does this scene depict self-control?
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- Fortitude, or courage, is depicted as a lady dressed like a soldier with a lion in her lap. She demonstrates her strength by pulling down an oak tree with the cupid Charity shaking its branch. How does this scene depict courage?
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- Justice is depicted in two scenes, one showing ecclesiastical (Church) authority and the other civil authority. In each scene a book of law is being handed down from the person in authority—canon law from the Pope and civil law from the governor. How do these scenes depict the virtue of justice?
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- Scene 2
  Freedom is not simply a choice but an achievement that requires skills. For example, someone may value classical music but they will not have the freedom to play classical music if they have not acquired the skill to play an instrument. The skills needed in the moral life that brings true freedom are the virtues.
  
  Ron Garofalo is a three-time world champion powerlifter. He trains young men in the sport of powerlifting in his gym called Virtus, which is Latin for virtue. What is the relationship between strength and virtue?
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- American novelist Mark Twain said: “It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.” What is your interpretation of this quote?
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- Scene 3
  To make a good moral choice the intention must be good, the circumstances must be good, and the act itself must be good. This is why we may never perform evil to achieve a good. To make a bad moral choice is to sin. It contradicts God’s law and therefore contradicts what is good for us.
  
  Some people argue that cohabitation before marriage is a good decision. They say: “You don’t buy a car without test-driving it first.” How would you respond to that statement?
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- When husbands or wives say something that hurts their spouse, they need to apologize and reconcile. However, if husbands or wives commit adultery, more than an apology is required to heal the relationship. How does this example show the difference between mortal and venial sin?
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- The Church calls us to perform corporal works of mercy: feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, clothe the naked, shelter the homeless, visit the sick, visit the imprisoned, and bury the dead. The Church also calls us to spiritual works of mercy: admonish the sinner, instruct the ignorant, counsel the doubtful, comfort the sorrowful, bear wrongs patiently, forgive all injuries, and pray for the living and the dead. Mercy understood in this sense is having compassion for others and, if possible, alleviating their burdens.
  
  Why is helping someone to form their conscience in the truth a spiritual work of mercy?
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- Scene 4
  Charles Dickens begins his novel David Copperfield with the sentence: “Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.” St. Paul, however, makes it sound that it is impossible to be the hero of your own life. He writes to the Romans: “For I delight in the law of God, in my inmost self, but I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin which dwells in my members” (Romans 7:22-23).
  
  How does the Good News of Jesus Christ reconcile these two statements?
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Grades 7-9 Sunday Group Virtual Lesson 3/22/26

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