UNIVERSITY OF SAINT LOUIS
Tuguegarao City
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION, ARTS and SCIENCES
Department of Philosophy and Religious Instructions
Second Semester
A.Y. 2021-2022
CORRESPONDENCE LEARNING MODULE
CFED 1023 - Christian Morality in Our Times
Prepared by:
IRENE BAUTISTA
THELMA BARICAUA
NICHOLE MAE LOZADA
ARISTOTLE MIGUEL MAGGAY
RAY OBISPO
WILSON TEMPORAL
CHARISSA ZALUN
Reviewed by:
WILSON J. TEMPORAL, LPT, MST
DPRI Department Head
Recommended by:
VENUS I. GUYOS, Ph.D.
Academic Dean
Approved by:
EMMANUEL JAMES PATTAGUAN, Ph.D.
Vice President for Academic
School of Education, Arts and Sciences
Teacher Education Department
Curriculum 2021-2022
CORRESPONDENCE LEARNING MODULE
CFED 1023 (Christian Morality in Our Time)
GENERAL INTRODUCTION:
Congratulations for making it to the second semester. Keep the vigor going as we brace another
daring semester!
You are enrolled in the Correspondence Learning Modality. Before we go further, let me ask a
question.
Are you ready to continue the mission and embark on a new challenging yet exciting
journey?
If so, be inspired to carry out the timeless zeal of a true CICM Missionary as we revisit the
chronicles behind our CICM Pers. Looking forward to a meaningful teaching and learning experience
in spite the challenge of our times. May the Good Lord be with us in all our midst! Stay safe, Louisian
Missionaries!
Get Involved! USL expects you to do the following:
• Let your parents pick up your module on the first day of the week.
• Send back your accomplished lessons/learning tasks as your parent will pick up the next.
• Contact me through messenger for any query that you want to make about your lessons or procedures in
school.
• Comply with all requirements (written outputs, projects/performance tasks examinations and the like.)
(For LMS)
• Learning materials like handouts, PowerPoint, scanned books, photos or videos and worksheets will be
uploaded in the Neo-LMS. You are expected to read the lessons before working on the activities or
quizzes. • You are expected to interact by asking questions or sharing insights through the Discussion
Forum. That is also my way of following up on your progress and of helping you with your difficulties.
• In each lesson, you will be given a worksheet or activity to complete. It is important therefore, that you
read well the materials given before working on any activity.
• Synchronous quiz will be given every week. Low MB usage will be utilized to ensure easy access. Failure
to submit on time requires you to provide written explanation. Allowing you to take another exam is within
the discretion of your instructor. You will be notified of the schedule for quizzes
Remember:
Expect to do varied assessments or activities that will be given. At the outset, I am strictly
warning you against plagiarism especially for essay type activities. Plagscan is used to verify
authenticity of your work. Any plagiarized material will be automatically given zero. (This includes
copy paste from internet and from your classmates)
Academic Intellectual Property Rights: Materials posted over NEO-LMS are the properties of USL
and the Facilitators. Students are not allowed to share it to any third-party individuals not part of the
class without any permission from the owners.
I hope you find this flexible approach helpful. Under God’s grace, let’s continue to learn amidst
this pandemic. This is just a challenge, but not a hindrance for us to hone ourselves at its best.
Again, stay safe!
Course Outline
TOPIC INTRODUCTION
● Basic Assumptions on Christian Morality
● Human Person as
✔ A Moral Agent
✔ A Creation of God
✔ An Image and Likeness of God
✔ A Social Being
✔ A Steward
Basic Moral Concepts and Norms
• Human Acts and Acts of Man
• The Determinants of Morality (Acts, purpose, and Circumstance)
• The Five Impediments to Human Acts
• The Eight Basic kinds of Conscience
• Eternal Law
• Natural Law
• Positive Law
Guides to Moral decisions
The Ten Commandments
Christ’s Teachings of the Commandments
The Church’s Social Teaching
Life and Dignity of the Human Person
Common Good
Call to Family, Community, and Participation
Rights and Responsibilities
Option for the Poor and Vulnerable
The Dignity of Work and the Rights of Workers
Solidarity
Care for God’s Creation
Subsidiary
Universal Destination of Goods
Person-centered Morality
MIDTERMS
CHRISTIAN MORALITY: PERSONAL AND FAMILY ISSUES AND CHURCH’S RESPONSES
● ON HUMAN DIGNITY
Children are Gifts (cloning, surrogacy, artificial insemination)
Science and Technology (cybersex (pornography), cyber bullying )
Pre-Marital Sex/Artificial Contraception(in passing)
Death (Abortion, suicide and euthanasia)
● ON FAMILY
Marriage (Joy of Love)
- role of Christian family
- responsible parenthood/family planning
Care for the elderly
Divorce/ Extra Marital Affairs
Family Gaps
- generation gap
- absentee parents
FINALS
CHRISTIAN MORALITY: SOCIAL AND ECOLOGICAL ISSUES AND CHURCH’S RESPONSES
ON SOCIETY
• Corruption
• Unjust labor Practices (unjust dismissal, stockholding mindset)
• Consumerism (materialism/commodification)
• Responsible Citizenship
• Religious diversity
ON ENVIRONMENT/ ECOLOGY (Philippine environmental situationer) /calamities)
• Pollution
• Mining Industry
• Massive Industrialization
• Reforestation
• Waste management
Grading System
50% (Class Standing) and 50% (Major Exam). The breakdown of the percentage for class standing
will be posted accordingly.
This Week’s Time Table: (January 12-15, 2022)
For this week, the following shall be your guide for the different lessons and tasks that you
need to accomplish. Oops! Be patient, read them carefully before proceeding to the tasks
expected of you.
HAVE A FRUITFUL LEARNING EXPERIENCE
Date Topics Activities or Tasks
January 12-13 Orientation/Setting of Expectations Read the General Introduction part
January 14-15 CICM-Philippines School Read Lessons
Network: Vision-Mission
USL’s Vision - Mission - Core
Values
CORRESPONDENCE LEARNING MODULE
CFED 1023 (Christian Morality in our Time)
AY 2021-2022
General Introduction
Topic: Course Description
Grading System
CICM-Louisian Mission and Identity
Learning At the end of this module, you are expected to:
Outcomes:
1. Explain the core values that are embodied in the CICM-Philippines School Network
VisionMission; and
2. Identify the core values of the University and ways on how they live them as students;
LEARNING CONTENTS:
God Created all things, (world and the human persons). They were in “paradise” which means, there
was harmony, justice, peace, and joy. Despite the very good conditions of life that they were in, the first human
beings (“Adam” and “Eve”) still committed sin.
Brief Historical Background of the
Church
Sacrament: means channel, representative, visible sign of an invisible reality.
God Jesus Church
The Sacrament of God is Jesus and the Sacrament of Jesus is the Church (John 20:21,
Acts 1:8)
The Church started as a religious renewal “movement”/group in Jerusalem, Israel by no other
than Jesus Christ. Jesus grounded the Church on the foundation of the Apostles and it spread
from Jerusalem to the Roman Empire world until throughout all the earth.
The first “name” of the Church was The Way (Acts 9:2), The members of the Church were
called Christians in Antioch (Acts 11: 26). The Church was persecuted by the Roman Empire
(which was still pagan) until the Conversion of the Emperor Constantine in 313 AD which paved
the way for Christians to infiltrate Rome until Christianity was declared as the official religion of the
Roman Empire in 380 AD by Emperor Theodosius.
Way back in 45 AD, the first apostle who went to Rome and started the Church there was
no other than Peter. Later, reflecting on the mission of Jesus which He passed on to the Church,
the Church’s official “name” or title evolved into: One (John 17:21), Holy (Ephesians 1:4, 5:27, I
Peter 2:9), Catholic (Matthew 28: 18-20, Acts 1:8, Gen 12: 3, John 3: 16-17) and Apostolic
(Ephesians 2:20 )
From the Church developed the Hierarchy (Bishops, priests, and deacons – with the Pope
as the overall head for the sake of division of work and maintaining the unity of the Church while it
spreads the Kingdom of God on earth.
From the Church comes the different “kinds” of priests according to spirituality or mission
area.
a. Diocesan is a term use for priests serving their local places;
b. Monks: started in the 3rd century AD in Egypt and in Syria with a life of simplicity or asceticism.
Monks who are composed of sisters (not priests) only came out later. Example of few monks
in Cagayan who are sisters are those at the St. Claire monastery in Iguig.
c. Missionaries are group/community of priests who really want to go to serve remote places not
yet evangelize.
Examples of missionaries are the following:
c.1. The Dominicans who was founded by St. Dominic in Prouille, France in 1216. (Dominic was a
Spanish
priest).
c.2. The Augustinians which started in 1244 in Italy (group or no specific founder).
c.3. The Jesuits or called Society of Jesus who was founded in 1540 by Ignatius of Loyola, formerly a
Spanish soldier who became priest.
c.4. The CICM and other missionary groups only came out later.
The CICM was founded by a diocesan priest Theophile Verbist in 1862 in Scheut, Anderlecht,
Brussels, Belgium.
So what is a CICM? It is just one of the missionary groups which is an arm of the Church
for evangelization.
One of the many strategies for missionaries to evangelize people especially the youth
to prepare them to become also evangelizers in their own ways in the future is to establish
schools. With this, obviously, in the missionary schools and even schools established by the local
Church, the core of the curriculum is the Christian Faith Education of the young (children to
college). In a wider sense, the Christian formation of the Community who are running the school.
The CICM established schools for such purpose. Here at the University of Saint Louis, our motto
for us to always remember this is “Mission and Excellence” and among the core values of our
University’s Vision – Mission, the first is Christian Living.
CICM
Philippines School Network:
Vision-Mission
At the initiative of the Father,
Sent by the Son, Guided by the Spirit,
Inspired by Theophile Verbist our founder,
Who heard the call of the Lord
And left his country
To proclaim the Good News in China,
Enlightened by those who preceded us
And who - like our founder-
Left their familiar surroundings
To follow Jesus Christ, the Incarnate Word
By integrating themselves into a foreign culture,
And by living in solidarity with another people,
Enriched by those we serve,
Especially the poor who reveals to us
The sin of the world
And who help us discover the true meaning
Of God’s plan of love,
We CICM missionaries
Of different races and cultures
Live and work together as brothers
In order to bring the Good News of Jesus Christ Wherever
it is most needed.
We achieve our mission
When we facilitate
The encounter between Jesus Christ and the ‘nations’.
Our mission includes
Enabling people
To experience the coming of the Kingdom
-proclaimed by Jesus Christ-
In their own God-given context.
USL’s VISION,
MISSION, AND
CORE
VALUES
VISION
USL is a global learning community recognized for science and technology across all
disciplines, strong research, and responsive community engagement grounded on the CICM
mission and identity for a distinctive student experience.
MISSION
USL sustains a Catholic academic community that nurtures persons for community, church and
society anchored on CICM’s Missio et Excellentia.
EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY AND CORE VALUES
The University of Saint Louis upholds the philosophy that education is for building of self and
persons for the Church and the Society. Wisdom builds. To these ends, the following are University
of Saint Louis’s core values integral in the formation of every member of the Louisian community.
a. Christian Living. We are witnesses to the Gospel values as taught and lived by Christ thus
making
God’s love known and experienced by all.
b. Excellence. We seek and maintain uncompromising standard of quality in teaching, learning,
service, and stewardship of school resources.
c. Professional Responsibility. We are committed to efficiently and responsibly apply the learned
principles, values and skills in the chosen field of discipline, taking initiative and command
responsibility in one’s professional advancement.
d. Social Awareness and Involvement. We engage ourselves with society by listening to the
prevailing issues and concerns in the society, thereby initiating and participating in constructive
and relevant social activities for the promotion of justice, peace and integrity of creation and for
people’s wellness and development consistent with the CICM charism.
e. Innovation, Creativity and Agility. We keep ourselves relevant and responsive to the changing
needs of our stakeholders by being flexible, solution oriented, and having cutting-edge decisions
and practices.
REFERENCES:
Textbooks
Morgan, G. C. (1912). Living messages of the books of the Bible: Old and New Testments. New
York: Fleming H. Revell.
YOUCAT english: Youth cathecism of the Catholic Church. (2011). San Francisco: Ignatius Press.
Becoming a Household of God in the Old Testament (150 years of CICM in the Philippines) by
CICM Philippines
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