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Senior High School Department

Syllabus
Name of Teacher: Earl John S. Panagsagan Semester: First
Subject Title: Christian Morality Hours Credit/semester: 80 Hours

Core Subject Description:

This subject revolves around the Christian principle of Love. It presents an overview of basic concepts in Christian
Morality as well as more specific moral issues that students educated in the Catholic Faith should know. This implies
taking into consideration a particular act in relation with the person responsible for it and the circumstances surrounding
his/her choices. It aims to lead the students to discover or find answers to issues that call for a personal and communal
response.

Content Content Standard Performance Standard Learning Competencies

1. Man: the image of The learners will
God and our vocation understand that in man,
to beatitude true freedom is an
outstanding manifestation
of the divine image. And
manifest the beatitudes, for
it teaches us the final end
to which God calls us: the
Kingdom, the vision of
God, participation in the
divine nature, eternal life,
filiation, rest in God.
The learners reflect that 1. Realize that Christ makes
man is obliged to follow the man fully manifest to man
moral law, which urges him himself and brings to light
to do what is good and his exalted vocation.
avoid what is evil. 2. Recognize that we pursues
our perfection in "seeking
and loving what is true and
good
3. Discover that he who
believes in Christ has new
life in the Holy Spirit.
 2. Mans Freedom The learners will know that The learners recognize 1. Know that freedom is the
God willed that man should what is really the essence power to act or not to act,
be left in the hand of his of human freedom. and so to perform deliberate
own counsel, so that he acts of one's own.
might of his own accord 2. Learn that freedom attains
seek his creator and freely perfection in its acts when
attain his full and blessed directed toward God, the
perfection by cleaving to sovereign Good.
him. 3. Recognize that freedom
characterizes properly
human acts. It makes the
human being responsible for
acts of which he is the
voluntary agent. His
deliberate acts properly
belong to him.
3. The Morality of Human The learners will The learners will reflect the 1. Know the sources of
Acts comprehend the object, goodness of human acts. Morality
the intention, and the 2. Recognize object chosen
circumstances make up orally specifies the act of
the three "sources" of the willing accordingly as
morality of human acts. reason recognizes and
judges it good or evil.
3. Acknowledge a morally
good act requires the
goodness of its object, of
its end, and of its
circumstances together.
4. The Morality of the The learners will
Passions understand that In the
passions, as movements
of the sensitive appetite,
there is neither moral good
nor evil. But insofar as they
engage reason and will,
there is moral good or evil
in them.
5. Moral Conscience The learners will
understand that
Conscience is man's most
secret core, and his
sanctuary. There he is
alone with God whose
voice echoes in his depths.
The learners will 1. Know the term
acknowledge that the "passions" refers to the
perfection of the moral affections or the feelings.
good consists in man's By his emotions man
being moved to the good intuits the good and
not only by his will but also suspects evil.
by his "heart." 2. Acknowledge the
principal passions are
love and hatred, desire
and fear, joy, sadness,
and anger.
3. Comprehend that
emotions and feelings
can be taken up in the
virtues or perverted by
the vices.
The learners will manifest a 1. Acknowledge that
well-formed conscience. conscience is a
That is upright and truthful. judgment of reason by
It formulates its judgments which the human person
according to reason, in recognizes the moral
conformity with the true quality of a concrete act.
good willed by the wisdom 2. Understand that for the
of the Creator. Everyone man who has committed
must avail himself of the evil, the verdict of his
means to form his conscience remains a
conscience. pledge of conversion and
of hope.
3. Know that a human
being must always obey
the certain judgment of
his conscience.
6. The Virtues The learners will know that The learners show the 1. Learn about cardinal
virtue is a habitual and firm important of virtues in their virtues.
disposition to do good. life. 2. Know the theological
virtues: faith, hope, and
charity.
3. Acknowledge the seven
gifts of the Holy Spirit
bestowed upon
Christians.
7. Sin The learners will The learners will reflect 1. Understand that sin is an
understand that "God has that sin is an act contrary utterance, a deed, or a
consigned all men to to reason. It wounds man's desire contrary to the
disobedience, that he may nature and injures human eternal law. It is an
have mercy upon all" (Rom solidarity. offense against God.
11:32). 2. Acknowledge that the
root of all sins lies in
man's heart. The kinds
and the gravity of sins
are determined
principally by their
objects.
3. Learn that venial sin
constitutes a moral
disorder that is reparable
by charity, which it
allows to subsist in us.

Prepared by: Approve by: Noted by:

Mr. Earl John Panagsagan and Dr. Noel G. Caballes Sr. Ma. Florenda C. Mesiona, TDM
Teachers Focal Person Directress/Principal