CONSCIENCE

An inner feeling or voice viewed as acting as a guide to the

rightness or wrongness of ones behavior.
Judgement of reason by which the human person
recognizes the moral quality of a concrete act (CCC 1796).
Inner voice summoning us to love the good & the evil.
Our most secret core and sanctuary where we encounter
God; our heart. (CCC 1776)
THREE LEVELS OF CONSCIENCE
1. INSTINCTIVE LEVEL
Dominated by fear of punishment & desire for
approval or reward.
This is normal for children.
2. MORAL/PHILOSOPHICAL LEVEL
Operates on the ethical level and not just on what is
commanded.
Has awareness of the inner good or evil of a specific
act.
3. CHRISTIAN LEVEL
Places moral striving as a personal call to holiness &
wholeness.
KINDS OF CONSCIENCE
1.