Thursday, May 25, 2017
Youcat commented through CCC – Question n. 295 – Part I.
(Youcat
answer) Conscience is the inner voice in a man that moves him to do good under
any circumstances and to avoid evil by all means. At the same time it is the
ability to distinguish the one from the other. In the conscience God speaks to
man.
A deepening through CCC
(CCC 1776) "Deep
within his conscience man discovers a law which he has not laid upon himself
but which he must obey. Its voice, ever calling him to love and to do what is
good and to avoid evil, sounds in his heart at the right moment.... For man has
in his heart a law inscribed by God.... His conscience is man's most secret
core and his sanctuary. There he is alone with God whose voice echoes in his
depths" (GS 16). (CCC 1786) Faced with a
moral choice, conscience can make either a right judgment in accordance with
reason and the divine law or, on the contrary, an erroneous judgment that
departs from them.
Reflecting and meditating
(Youcat comment) Conscience is compared with an inner voice
in which God manifests himself in a man. God is the one who becomes apparent in
the conscience. When we say, “I cannot reconcile that with my conscience”, this
means for a Christian, “I cannot do that in the sight of my Creator!” Many
people have gone to jail or been executed because they were true to their
conscience.
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 1777) Moral conscience (Cf. Rom 2:14-16), present at the
heart of the person, enjoins him at the appropriate moment to do good and to
avoid evil. It also judges particular choices, approving those that are good
and denouncing those that are evil (Cf. Rom 1:32). It bears witness to the
authority of truth in reference to the supreme Good to which the human person
is drawn, and it welcomes the commandments. When he listens to his conscience,
the prudent man can hear God speaking.
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