CATECHISM – 5th Sunday of Easter B

Central idea: Christ is the vine and we are his branches

Doctrine: Conscience

Practical application: Formation of conscience

A conscience that is properly formed knows both the moral teachings of Christ and his Church and understands how to apply them to concrete, real-life situations. This is an ideal, but we can approach it through a number of means:

• Learning the principles of morality, especially with the help of the Magisterium of the Church.
• Experience in making moral decisions: we can learn from our mistakes and from the better and worse decisions we see others make.
• Sincerely examining one’s conscience daily.
• Receiving the sacraments regularly, especially Penance.
• Praying, because having a personal relationship with Christ is key to imitating him.
• Receiving spiritual direction: in this way you can get good advice from an objective viewpoint.
• Avoiding what is harmful to our relationship with God because deliberate sin blinds us.

Homiletic Directory

• CCC 2746-2751: Christ’s prayer at the Last Supper
• CCC 755, 736, 755, 787, 1108, 1988, 2074: Christ is the vine, we are the branches
• CCC 953, 1822-1829: charity

The paragraphs were chosen either because they cite or allude to the specific readings, or because they treat topics found in the readings.

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SOURCE: Portland Diocese, Used with Permission