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Grades 7-9 Sunday Group 4/19/26

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Due to Spring Break travel plans, there will be no in-person student sessions for the Sunday Grades 7-9 Group on Sunday, April 12th or Sunday, April 19th. Please watch the Symbolon for Teens video here https://app.formed.org/app/videos/582808?cid=748877 7 and answer the below questions. Your form will be counted for attendance.

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Living the Creed: God's Plan for Sexuality (Session 8)
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  The Catechism teaches that “sexual pleasure is morally disordered when sought for itself, isolated from its procreative and unitive purposes” (CCC 2351). Unfortunately, the Church is often portrayed as being “out of touch” when insisting that sex is for creating babies and for bonding within a sacramental marriage. And yet, in our hyper-sexualized culture, it is obvious that something has gone seriously wrong.
  
  It has been said that sex is like atomic power. When used according to God’s plan, it creates massive amounts of energy…but when used contrary to God’s plan, it destroys. What are some examples that demonstrate this point?
  
  The fact that we are created in the image and likeness of God means sex is more than a physical act. How so?
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  The Church teaches that “chastity includes an apprenticeship in self-mastery which is a training in human freedom” (CCC 2339) and “self-mastery is a long and exacting work” (CCC 2342). The Church does not hide the fact that chastity is hard work, and warns that “the alternative is clear: either man governs his passions and finds peace, or he lets himself be dominated by them and becomes unhappy” (CCC 2339).
  
  The word love is overused and trivialized today. What are some characteristics of love?
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- A marriage therapist said: “While many people are capable of having sex, only married couples are capable of making love!” How would you interpret this statement?
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- Jason Evert says: “The problem with pre-marital sex and cohabitation is not that you are going too far, but that you are not going far enough.” What did he mean by this statement?
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  The word contraception means “against conception.” It is the deliberate prevention of conception. In the 1960s, the birth control pill, an oral contraceptive, was invented and was considered by many to be a miracle for mankind. As oral contraceptives were gaining in popularity, Pope Paul VI issued an encyclical in 1968 titled Humanae Vitae (On Human Life). This reaffirmed the Catholic teaching against contraception and predicted that the promises of contraception would turn out to be false.
  
  Contraception was supposed to make marriages better, but from 1965 to 1975 the divorce rate doubled. Why do you think that is?
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- Humanae Vitae predicted that contraception would lead to an increased disregard for women’s well-being. There has been an explosion of pornography and an increase in the sexual abuse of women, and 60 percent of the poor in the United States are single women with children. How would contraception have contributed to these problems?
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- Humanae Vitae predicted that the availability of contraception would lead governments to force it upon their citizens. The one-child policy in China is one example. Another example is the United Nations’ economic aid programs to poorer countries, where they will not provide aid if these poorer countries do not implement population control programs that include contraceptives, sterilizations, and access to abortion. How do these programs violate the dignity of the human person?
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- Humanae Vitae predicted that contraception would lead to treating the human body as if it were a machine. What might be some examples of treating the human body like a machine?
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  The Catechism teaches that pornography “offends against chastity because it perverts the conjugal act, the intimate giving of spouses to each other” (CCC 2354). In addition, the Catechism teaches that “the deliberate use of the sexual faculty, for whatever reason, outside of marriage is essentially contrary to its purpose” (CCC 2352), and therefore masturbation is “an intrinsically and gravely disordered action.”
  
  Why does pornography make a man less of a man and a woman less of a woman?
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  How does the interaction between the woman caught in adultery and Jesus in John 8 point us to the Sacrament of Penance?
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Grades 7-9 Sunday Group 4/19/26

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