Introduction

God wants us to be happy.

Happiness through Following Jesus

Draw near to Eternal happiness,
Follow Christ as a
Jesus through joy, and glory of
disciple.
Baptism. heaven

Happiness through Following Jesus

 Freedom and Responsibility

• God gives you the power to

act or not to act.
• With freedom comes
responsibility for acts that
you make freely and
deliberately.

Happiness through Following Jesus

 Human
reason
MORALITY
Three sources to
Human
discern right and wrong experience
Divine
Revelation
Happiness through Following Jesus
 Living a moral life means:
• acting according to God’s plan for your life.
• being responsible and cooperating with God’s grace to live a fully
human life.
• God wants to communicate to you his own divine life so that you
become “capable of responding to him, and of knowing him, and of
loving him far beyond [your] own natural capacity” (CCC, 52).
• your human nature is a religious one; you fulfill it only when you
freely choose to accept and live your bond with God.

Happiness through following Jesus