This article took me back to my days of teaching and a unit that I did on “Virtue and the Formation of Conscience”.
I promise that I did a great job teaching the unit, but these are the responses that I got back on the quiz of my then 7th graders.
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What are some important virtues to acquire and why?
Hope, faith and charity are some good virtues that we should “require”.
- Jenn
Fortitude, kindness, peace, love are good virtues to acquire. They are good
because they make us become the good person I am.
- Austin
Patience, because you can tell people about God without getting frustrated.
- Brennan
One is humility, because no one is perfect and you have to know that.
- Kevin
One important virtue to acquire is patience because we need to wait a lot in
life and another virtue is fortitude so we won’t give up.
- Brendan
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What negative effects can some of today’s TV shows, movies and music have on
a conscience formation?
They say bad words and show bad images that go into our brain.
- Elizabeth
Some negative affects would be cursing, shooting and killing.
-Jenn
Some negative effects of TV shows, movies and music are that they could have
bad words and could lead that person to using them. Another is that TV just
has powerful rays that can harm the eyes.
- Joseph
Todays TV programs can have negative effects on conscience growth because
some shows today have harsh language and make bad themes look cool. Movies
have the same problem. Music today can have harsh words and talk about
things best left unsaid. Such things can give us a bad conscience.
- Austin
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What can we do to form a good conscience?
Practice doing good things and pick good idles.
- Sean
This is fantastic. Are you still teaching a class?
How about doing an adult class?
Thought you all would get a chuckle out of my post on #14.
My old 7th grade class.
I lived to tell.
I saw some of my old students this Sunday at Mass, maybe not the brightest lights “back in the day”, but they are an excellent crop of young people today. Great parish. Excellent Catholic families.
The fate of the nation has me at starts and fits. The future of our Church is in wonderful hands!