Readings Guide and Key Points Week6 part 2:

Counsels of Perfection

Poverty, Chastity, Obedience

Vows as virtues for all Christian persons

Poverty: Detachment from things

Material goods need to be put at the service of life and love

Life should be centered around and measured by who we are, not what we have

Chastity: Do I treat people as subjects or objects?

Developing a chastity formed by love

Obedience: responsible use of our social freedom

One’s will is not to be identified as God’s will

The search for God’s will is a cooperative venture

Obedience is a call to dialogue and participation

Conscience: Doing the truth

Three Dimensions – capacity, process, judgement

Capacity – aka antecedent conscience

Process – actual conscience

Judgment – command conscience ( the truth that is to be done)

Conscience Formation

Review moral development and its influence on the development of conscience

Moral insights, moral passions, moral skills

O’Connell “communities are the bearers and transmitters of moral values and ethical vision”