Confirmation

Notes 3
How does the Holy Spirit
sanctify us
( make us holy)?

A few class notes before the

activity…
 Class Notes

The moral life of Christians is sustained by the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
These are permanent dispositions which make man docile in
following the promptings of the Holy Spirit
CCC 1830
 Moral Life
Definition: Example:
The moral life of a
Applying God’s Christian is
teachings and laws to characterized by love
the choices we make of God and love of
in our lives. neighbor.
 Dispositions
Example:
Definition:
∙ an attitude of mind especially
Her first inclination is to tell the
one that favors one
truth.
alternative over others;
He could never say an unkind
∙ a complex mental state
word.
involving beliefs and feelings
and values and a tendency to
act in certain ways
 Sustained
Definition: Example:

to support something or I knew lunch would be late

keep it going that day so I had a snack to
sustain me until then.
 Docile
Definition: Example:
∙ easily handled or The docile puppy learned
managed new tricks easily.

∙ willing to be taught or
led or supervised or
directed
What does this mean then?

The gifts of the Holy Spirit continually support a person so that

they can more easily hear the promptings of the Holy Spirit and
act on them, thereby living a life characterized by acts of virtue
and love.
 Describe the relationship between the Holy Spirit and
our conscience
Call to love the
good

Call to do the
Holy Spirit Conscience good

Avoid what is
evil
How Can we form our conscience?

1. Read Scripture and put it into practice

2. Examine our conscience
3. Receive help from the Holy Spirit
4. Get the advice of others
5. Listen to the authority of the Church
 The Virtues CCC 1803
What is the goal of a virtuous
What is a virtue?
life?
A habitual and firm disposition to do
the good. To become like God

A virtuous person tends

toward… What does this mean?
The good! Inclination to do the good,
virtuous, right, appropriate
thing
 CCC 1804
How does a person acquire a virtue?

Through effort!
Teacher Notes:
When a person acquires a virtue, he or she knows:
1. What is right
2. Has the strength of will to choose it
3. Wants what is right and good (ordered passions)
Virtue is like a muscle. You have to exercise it regularly and
build up its strength.
 CCC 1810: The Virtues and Grace
Human virtues acquired by education, by deliberate acts and by a
perseverance ever-renewed in repeated efforts are purified and
elevated by divine grace. With God's help, they forge character and give
facility in the practice of the good. The virtuous man is happy to practice
them.
Complete the virtue brace map

Education

Human Human choice: Acts

Virtue

Human choice:
Perseverance

Divine Grace
 CCC 1811
If it only requires education
and practice, why is it so hard The wounds of sin
to acquire a virtue?

What makes acquiring virtue

much easier?
The grace given by Christ. We can
access this grace through

● Prayer
● Sacraments
● cooperating with the Holy Spirit
Human
Christian

The Holy Trinity

Human
infused soul God

acts
 Faith (CCC 1814, 1816) Hope (CCC 1817, 1819) Charity (CCC 1822, 1826)

Definition: The we believe in God and believe we desire the kingdom of we love God above all
theological
virtue by in all has said and revealed to heaven and eternal life as our things for his own sake,
which… us, and that the Church happiness, placing our trust in and our neighbor
proposes for our belief, Christ’s promises and relying as ourselves for the love of
because he is truth itself. not on our own strength, but God
on the help of the grace of the
Holy Spirit

Obliges us to not only keep the Who is the model for hope? “So faith, hope, charity
faith and live on it, but also: What did they do to show the abide, these three. But the
virtue of hope? greatest of these is
1. Profess it charity.” 1 Corinthians
2. Bear witness Abraham. He trusted God to 13:13
3. Spread it keep his promises that would
be fulfilled in Isaac, even when
he was asked to sacrifice him.
 CCC 1818
Hope is related to our Hope sets our hearts on true
aspiration/desire for happiness happiness which is in heaven

Hope keeps man from

discouragement, preserves him from Happiness flows from charity
selfishness
 CCC 1820
Hope
● The is related to ourraise our hope toward
beatitudes Hopeheaven
sets our hearts on true
aspiration/desire for happiness happiness which is in heaven
● List two things that the catechism describes hope as:
Hope keeps man from
○ Anchor of the soul
discouragement, preserves him from Happiness flows from charity
○ weapon
selfishness that protects us in the struggle of salvation

● Hope is expressed and nourished through prayer, especially the Our

Father
CCC 1821
Hope
● Inis what
relatedcircumstances
to our Hope sets
should a person hopeourinhearts
God?on true
aspiration/desire for happiness
○ All circumstances happiness which is in heaven

Hope keepsdoes
● What man from
St. Teresa of Avila encourage her soul (and us) to do and
discouragement, preserves
why? (summarize him from
in your Happiness flows from charity
own words)
selfishness
She encourages us to hope even when it seems like a long time to wait,
because time really does pass quickly and the more we struggle the
more we prove our love for God.
CCC 1823
According to Jesus, how must St. Paul describes Christian
we love one another? love. Read 1 Corinthians
13:4-7 and copy it down here:
As Jesus has loved us Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or
boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not
insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;
it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the
right. Love bears all things, believes all things,
hopes all things, endures all things.
 CCC 1827

What is the form of the virtues? (What ought to

inspire all of our good choices?)

Charity

How does charity animate the moral life?

Gives the Christian spiritual freedom as a Child of

God. No longer a slave in fear of God

CCC 1828
The Gifts and Fruits of the Holy Spirit

CCC 1831

The Gifts of the Holy Spirit complete and

perfect the virtues of those who receive
them. They make the faithful docile in
readily obeying divine inspirations
 The Fruits of the Holy Spirit

CCC 1832 The Fruits of the Spirit

The fruits of the Spirit are perfections charity, joy, peace, patience, kindness,
that the Holy Spirit forms in us as the goodness, generosity, gentleness,
first fruits of eternal glory faithfulness, modesty, self-control,
chastity