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Your Life in Christ Chapter 5
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3 “The moral virtue
that ensures
firmness in
difficulties and
constancy in the
pursuit of the good”
(9)
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14 What feels right at
the moment (3,8)
15 The Church defines
conscience as a
“____ written by
God” (3)
16 An examination of
conscience is part
of the contrition
necessary for
celebrating this
Sacrament (7)
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10 ____ pressure is to
go along with the
beliefs and actions
of others (4)
11 “God’s law and
____ teaching set
the standard of
morality. If I act
against those, I am
not acting morally”
(6)
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7 The word Sigmund
Freud used for the
subconscious (8)
8 A word that means
putting what you
have decided into
action (9)
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17 Most of these
decisions are ____,
that is, you make
them by habit and
give them little
thought (8)
21 “Incapable of being
overcome” (10)
24 He said that he
could resist
everything except
temptation (5)
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27 A ____ person is
someone who
possesses a
properly formed
conscience. (13)
30 An ____ of
conscience is an
honest, prayerful
assessment of how
well you have lived
God’s covenant of
love (11)
31 Someone who has
suffered and died
for the truth of the
faith and of
Christian doctrine
(6)
32 Conscience is not
what the wooden
boy ____ thought it
was: a cricket
whispering to him
what to do or what
not to do (9)
33 Conscience is not
a ____ (7)
34 The word martyr
comes from a word
that means “____”
(7)
35 Another word for
“seer” (7)
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1 A ____ conscience
refers to joining
with others to apply
the objective norms
of morality to
issues that affect
the common good
(10)
2 The spiritual
practice of “____”
your daily
sufferings,
annoyances, and
work can benefit
both you and
others (8,2)
3 He described
conscience as the
place where the
leftover rules of
childhood are
carried around in
the subconscious,
he claimed (5)
4 The habit of
laziness is known
as this vice (5)
5 He said, “Everyone
has his or her own
conscience, and
there should be no
rules about how a
conscience should
function.” (9)
6 The author
explains several
____ about what
conscience is not
(14)
9 A term that means
to make sacrifices
(4,6)
25 The formation of
your conscience is
a ____ task (8)
12 A practical
judgment of reason
that helps a person
decide the
goodness or evil of
an action or
attitude (10)
26 Invincible _____
refers to the
rightness or
wrongness of an
action in which one
is not morally
culpable (9)
13 The only president
in United States
history ever to
have resigned his
office (5)
28 He speaks through
the Magisterium of
the Church (6)
15 She said, “The one
thing that doesn’t
abide by majority
rule is a person’s
conscience” (3)
18 He taught that
conscience is “a
way of obedience
to objective truth”
(6)
19 A good habit that
empowers you to
do good with ease
(6)
20 Conscience is the
“most ____ core
and sanctuary” of
your being, where
you are alone with
God (6)
22 A bad habit that
inclines you to
choose evil rather
than good (4)
23 Vincible ignorance
refers to the
rightness or
wrongness of an
action in which one
is morally ____ (8)
29 Fifteenth-century
priest who wrote
that “the testimony
of a good
conscience is the
glory of a good
person; have a
good conscience
and you shall
always have
gladness” (6)