OP-Siena School System Religion Learning Plan

Dominican School of Pilar, Inc.

Binanuahan, Pilar, Sorsogon
AY: 2023- 2024
CL/VE 9

Subject Grade Level Grading Period Inclusive Dates

CL/VE Grade 9 1st 2nd 3rd 4th October 2-24, 2023

Teacher Mr. Jose Dizon S. Solomon, LPT, MACDDS

Module/Topic UNIT I: Jesus’ Gift of Freedom and Discernment
LESSON 3: Law and Conscience
Week no. /Duration Wk. 7-9 420 minutes
Instructional Materials Aflame with God’s Love Grade 9

Overview (Introduction)
 A law therefore is an external factor which helps us judge whether our
action is right or wrong.
 We apply the law based on our conscience, an internal factor, which,
when formed properly, prompts us to do the good that we are called to
do.
 While the natural law written on our hearts teaches us the general,
objective principles of the moral life, conscience applies the natural law
to particular circumstances, enabling us to choose what is good and
avoid what is evil. cf. CCC 1777
 Moral law indicates the definite direction which safeguards basic moral
values for the common good.
 Our freedom then is limited and not absolute, contrary to what some
people believe. Its boundaries or limits are the rights and welfare of
others and our own nature as human persons.
 Our freedom to do an act should be guided by our own knowledge of

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 good and evil: we freely carry out the good contained in the moral law
and freely avoid what we know as evil by means of the same law.
 Conscience is “a judgement of reason whereby the human person
recognizes the moral quality of a concrete act that he is going to
perform, is in the process of performing, or has already completed (CCC
1778).”
 The Ten Commandments need conscience to work, otherwise they just
remain words in a book.
 It is only through conscience that we decide and apply the law to the
situations in our life.

Proclamation of the Word (Gospel of the Day /Seeing God’s message in

the Scriptures)
Mk. 2:23-27

Sources (References, Bible, Vatican II Documents, CCC, CFC, Church’s

Teachings, Encyclicals, Pastoral Letters)

CCC 1777
Moral conscience,48 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.49 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.

In Quest of Truth (Passion for Truth)

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 Christian Message: Learning Targets:
The lesson is ordered to enable the students to:
Doctrine Discuss how God’s Plan of Love
Continues in the Church.
 I can discuss how God’s Plan of Love Continues
Moral: Participate in the different missionary in the Church.
activities of the Church.
 I can participate in the different missionary
activities of the Church
Worship: Entrust themselves to God’s caring  I can entrust themselves to God’s caring love as
love as they share in Jesus’ mission of they share in Jesus’ mission of building the
building the Kingdom of God through the Kingdom of God through the help of the Holy
help of the Holy Spirit. Spirit.
 I can ask for the grace to faithfully follow the
Ask for the grace to faithfully follow the moral law through a prayer.
moral law through a prayer.
Learner’s Attributes: Integration of Values:
1. Have a deeper knowledge and appreciation God-Centered -
of the Church as an instrument of God’s love
Can engage oneself in Catechesis
to all men.

Servant-Leader -
2. Realize how the Church makes us feel
God’s love at present. Demonstrate integrity and ethical behavior in exercising
authority

3. Deepen their appreciation of the

membership in the Church and its role in Subsidiarity (OP-Siena-Schools-CEAP-CL-GMRC-VE)
society.

-Truth Seeker
(Seeks God: Father, Son and Spirit and all truths thru
assiduous study, research, discipline, silence and prayer)

- Law abiding Citizens

Explore
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Opening Prayer and Invocation

Experience: (Daily Life Experience, Seeing God’s Message in my Life)

Read the story from page 10 entitled “The Love of a Father” and answer the
following questions.

Guide Questions (page 19)

1. The speaker wishes to:
 help and assist everyone in need;
 give his/her time to listen to the weary and downtrodden person;
 bring joy to someone who is lonely;
 give comfort to someone who is weary; and
 at the end of each day, he/she has helped somebody.
2. 2. He or she wants that in every end of the day, someone will change their
perspective in life and will realize that the world is a great place to live.
3. Answers may vary.
4. Answers may vary.
5. As a student, I will going to exert extra effort for the good things I am
doing to other people. Through the help of our Father and through
prayers, doing such good things will be easy and successful.

Firm-up

Exposition: (Discover God’s Word, Seeing God’s Message in Scriptures,

Seeking God’s Message in the Teaching, Integrating God’s Message in my
Life, Discussion, Explore, Valuing, Deepening, Integration, Our Response
Transfer)

Discovering God’s Word

Read the bible passage 2:23-27 and answer the following questions on page 20.

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1. The Pharisees were shocked seeing Jesus' disciples picking the heads of
grain because it is unlawful for the people to make path while picking the
heads of the grain on the sabbath.
2. Jesus showed his concern and compassion to the people of the Sabbath.
3. Answers may vary. (This explains that there are no hierarchy to the blessings
coming from God. All are equal to the eyes of God, and the blessings must
be distributed equally to everyone.)
4. Answers may vary. (Laws must be imposed wherein everyone benefits from
it. Laws should not be recognized only by the wealthy and powerful people.)

Deepen

Seeing God’s Message in the teachings of the Church

CCC 1777
Moral conscience,48 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.49 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.

Integrating God’s Message in my life

Freedom and Moral Law

The Scripture also teaches us about what true freedom is: Jesus did what Was not
acceptable to the Pharisees, but He did it. Why?
He did it because He knew it was the right thing to do. By this act, Jesus teaches
us that freedom "is not the right to say and do anything,' but to 'do the good'(cf.
CCC 1740).
"Freedom is related to moral law in the same way a lake is related to the shore
that contains it. . Just as the shore gives the lake shape and holds it within its
boundaries, so does law give shape to the exercise of our authentic freedom and
mark off its boundaries

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What is the importance of laws?

Law then is a binding rule of conduct which serves to give shape and direction to
our freedom.

What does it imply about our freedom?

Our freedom then is limited and not absolute, contrary to what some people
believe. Its boundaries or limits are the rights and welfare of others and our own
nature as human persons. If an act will harm another person or ourselves, then
we are not free to do it,

On the other hand, if an act will benefit other people and will make us better
children of God, we are free to do it. What is good or harmful to others and
ourselves is enshrined in the concrete expression of the natural moral law-the
Ten Commandments.

It becomes clear to see now how freedom and law are closely linked. So our
freedom to do an act should be guided by our own knowledge of good and evil:
we freely carry out the good contained in the moral law and freely avoid what we
know as evil by means of the same law.

Conscience

Our daily life, however, does not lie under a heap of external factors like laws
and rules. Rather, we have to actualize "what we ought to do" in accordance with
"who we are," and "view life with a sense of responsibility."

The value of moral laws lies in its application to our individual acts because the
moral laws are universal norms for fostering basic human values.

We need to actualize in our concrete individual free acts the universal norm-be
honest, do not kill, do not lie—so as to develop and practice the fundamental
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human values.

This is where conscience comes in.

Conscience is "a judgement of reason whereby the human person recognizes the
moral quality of a concrete act that he is going to perform, is in the process of
performing, or has already completed (CCC 1778)."

Conscience is our subjective moral norm, the faculty by which we "apply"

general objective moral laws to our particular free acts.

Our conscience is that by which we decide what is right and what is wrong at the
moment, and its decision is based on the moral norm or law.
For instance, when faced with the opportunity to cheat during a difficult test, the
law on honesty comes to our mind and with the help of our conscience, we judge
if cheating is in conformity with the law in honesty. Deciding the act is wrong
because it runs counter to law and not doing it is a dictate of conscience.

Conscience and moral law are inseparable. Although, in the last analysis,
conscience is the final lawgiver,

it is not a law in itself; it always refers to an objective moral norm. On the other
hand, no law applies itself to our acts. The Ten Commandments do not operate
by themselves. They need conscience to work, otherwise they just remain words
in a book.

It is only through conscience that we decide and apply the law to the situations in
our life. Hence, morality has two dimensions: the objective moral norm which is
the law and the subjective moral norm which is conscience.

Transfer
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New Evangelization (New Methods, New Ardor, New Expressions,
Creative Strategies)

Empowered by God’s Message (page 23

1. Law and conscience must both work at the same time. Law is a standard
rule in which people must comply, and conscience is the one that
neutralize the function of law based on the will and act of the people.
Law with out conscience is worthless.
2. Answers may vary.
 I will do household choirs by my own free will.
 I will not cheat just to get a high score on exam. I will help my
classmate understand the topic.
 I will obey and respect the law.
3. Recite the given prayer

Assessment (Formative, Summative Assessment, Performance Task)

Answer Assessment page 24)

A. Answer Key:
1. -------
2. law
3. conscience
4. sabbath
5. natural
6. rights
7. completed
8. basic moral values for the common good.
9. right
10. moral

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 Ad Intra ( Compassion for Humanity)

Remarks:

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Prepared: Checked & Approved:

Mr. Jose Dizon S. Solomon, LPT, MACDDS Sr. Glynda P. Abello, OP

CL/VE Teacher School Director/ Principal

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