4. What is Respecting Truth?
“Lying”
“verbal offenses”
“telling the truth”
Avoiding
Much more than
or
5. What is truth?
The body of real
events or facts
a true or
accepted
statement or
idea
Envelops our
Whole being
6. Three kinds of truth:
Correspond to reality and are not erroneous
When we honestly declare what we really think and are
not lying
Correspond to our words
7. “Rid yourselves, then, of all evil; no
more lying or hypocrisy or
jealousy or insulting language.”
1 Pt. 2:1
11. The offenses against the
Commandment
The eight commandment forbids us to do the ff:
Lying is the most common
and direct offense against the truth.
12. We fall into telling lies because of
the following reasons:
A CB
13. The faults may be real, as in detraction
or invented which is worse as in calumny and slander (CCC 2477)
The common example:
“tale
bearing”
Gossip (Chismis)
14. TRUTH
In
LOVE
“Let us profess the truth
in love and grow to the
full maturity of Christ
the head”
(Eph 4:15)
St. Paul urges us:
Cannot be done
automatically
15. Is it true?
Is it necessary?
Is it kind?
Serving the truth
Serving others
17. Christian Witness to the Truth
To speak the truth about
ones neighbor involves
every Christian in bearing
witness to Jesus Christ
We Filipinos today are
called to offer witness to
Christ our Truth, through
the power of the Holy
Spirit sent to us.
18. We, the people of God, are challenge to
speak
the truth by striving to speak of the truth at
all times.
19.
20. Group Activity:
1. Think of someone you have lied to in the past, someone to
whom you owe the truth or think of someone whose
reputation you have stained. Imagine the hurt you have
caused him/her. What course of action will you now take?
2. What will you do when you hear a gossip or “chismis” about
someone or about you?
3. Do you believe everything that media claim to be true?
21. Assignment:
Make a picture
statement about
Respecting the truth
and put it in a
photo paper or in a
short bond paper The truth can set you free…
