Conscience

Conscience

1. What is it?

   • sacred scriptures and human experience
   • our duty to exercise our moral conscience
     • a good conscience applies to moral truth
   • it is not an infallible guide and can be ignorant or blinded

2. how is it formed?

   • practice frequent and honest self-examination
     • 3 steps to sincere repentance
   • sacrament of reconciliation
     • we must acknowledge our sins, intending to eliminate them from out lives. Otherwise there is no point because we would just turn around and commit the same sin
   • numb to wrong doing and ceases to function as it should
     • called by baptism to become a saint