ISU 76, Texas Tech 69

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ISU 76, Texas Tech 69

• Sports Report
• Poem (2)
• Drawing (2)
• Eyewitness
• interview (2)

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The Truth About Being Human
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Happiness

• All humans long for happiness.
• Our desire for happiness is infinite.
• Only an infinite source can satisfy an infinite
  desire.
• God is the ultimate goal of all of our desires.
• Everything in this world works better when it
  acts in accordance with its nature.
• To understand how humanity is happiest, you have
  to understand the nature of the human person.

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Genesis

• Very Good (131)
• Image and likeness of God (126)
• Union of a body and soul (27)
• Free will and Intellect (216)
• Social/communal (218, 24)
• Woman given to man
• Creation to man
• Hints of the Trinity
• Human Dignity the indestructible worth/value of
  every person because they are made in Gods image
  and likeness.
• Psalm 85-9

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About 10 seconds later in GenesisThe Fall

• Original Sin messes up not only the personal but
  the communal aspect of being human
• Even when we have original sin removed, actual
  sin and the effects of sin remain.
• Darkened intellect and a weakened will
• Suffering, pain, and death
• Concupiscence the tendency to sin which is not
  removed in Baptism
• Salvation history the rest of the Bible,
  throughout the OT and fulfilled in Christ in the
  NT, is the story of God seeking to restore what
  was lost and damaged in the fall and to raise it
  up to life everlasting with him.
• Grace Gods gift to strengthen us to do and be
  good.

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Jesus in the Gospels

• Three things that humans are destined to
  be/become because Christ came
• We are saved sinners
• Paschal Mystery
• We have hope and new and eternal life is offered.
• Freedom (John 8)
• If we are not saved sinners, what is our destiny?
  (1 Cor 1517)
• We are called to be compassionate as Jesus was
  compassionate.
• Compassion
• Unique response of Christians to suffering
  through
• Alternatives

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Jesus in the Gospels

• Three things that humans are destined to
  be/become because Christ came
• We are friends of the Lord.
• We can trust in his unwavering fidelity as a
  friend.
• Psalm 23
• Companion
• In return for Christs love, we are to love (1
  John 47-10). When we love we are most human. We
  love
• Our neighbor as ourselves (Mt 22)
• Our enemies (Mt 5)
• The poor/least in our midst (Mt 25)

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Review

• Truths that we learn through creation
• Very good, image and likeness, free will and
  intellect, body and soul, social, dignity
• Truths that we learn from the Fall
• Original sin, concupiscence, darkened intellect,
  weakened will, suffering, pain, death
• Truths that we learn through Jesus
• Saved sinners, compassion, friends

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Social Beings

• Being social beings means that you are called to
  be with others.
• Your social nature is absolutely vital to your
  quest for happiness.
• Society a group of persons bound together
  organically by a principle of unity that goes
  beyond each one of them. (CCC, 1880)
• No one lives alone. No one sins alone. No one is
  saved alone. B16

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Social Beings

• Since you are a social being by nature, in order
  for you to find happiness, the societies that you
  are involved with should lead you to being more
  truly and fully you.
• With a partner, make a list of the societies that
  you are a member of.
• Discuss the ways that those societies help you be
  most fully yourself. (How do they help fulfill
  your human nature?Remember all of the truths
  about being human that we have covered.)
• Are there any aspects of the various societies
  that are barriers to fulfilling your nature and
  being fully happy?

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Social Beings

• Which societies are chosen by you? Which are not?
• Is there a correlation between the societies you
  choose and the excitement you have towards them?
• Is there a correlation between the excitement you
  have towards a society and the time/resources you
  invest in that society?
• How does your involvement in societies change
  over time? Are you involved in more or less
  societies as you get older?
• How might an individual society change over time?
• What factors might be involved in discerning
  which societies to join or cut ties with?
• How do you discern what resources to put towards
  which society?

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Justice

• Definition
• Types
• 1. Commutative
• 2. Distributive
• 3. Legal
• Social Justice
• Chart on p. 14
• Examples School, family, sports team

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p. 16-20

• Common Good (definition)
• Justice and Charity (relationship)
• Social Sin (definition)
• Solution To put the world in order, we must
  first put the nation in order to put the nation
  in order, we must put the family in order to put
  the family in order, we must cultivate our
  personal life and to cultivate our personal
  life, we must first set our hearts right.
  -Confucius