Your Life in Christ

by PENNOCK

Overview

Your Life in Christ: Foundations of Catholic Morality focuses on the essential message of Christ's moral teaching, the importance of love of God and neighbor. The text covers the major points from the "Life in Christ" section of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, pulling together these elements by developing nine essential steps for living a Christian moral life in the Catholic tradition. These steps include:

1. Understanding the nature of being human
2. Guiding moral decision-making with intellect
3. Understanding the law's relationship to freedom and being responsible for transgressions
4. Imitating Jesus and living the Beatitudes
5. Forming the conscience and strengthening resistance to peer pressure
6. Repenting and forgiving others
7. Thanking God for life by loving God above all else
8. Loving yourself
9. Loving your neighbors

Each chapter contains several special features:

• Selections from Pope Benedict XVI's encyclical on love Deus Caritas Est.
• Panel activities that help the students foster total learning in hands (service), hearts (prayer), and mind (academic challenges).
• Review questions for each main section.
• Several Journal Assignments for deeper thought and reflection.
• Key vocabulary terms set off in margin panels.
• A Learn by Doing project for each chapter that provides a longer-term assignment.
• A Called to Prayer feature offering text from a prayer relevant to the chapter theme.
• Innovative Catholic Life in Action component for each chapter.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781594711237
Publisher:	Avenue Records
Publication date:	01/28/2008
Edition description:	Student
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 10.60(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Michael Francis Pennock (1945—2009) was the author of several bestselling textbooks for Catholic high schools, including Encountering Jesus in the New Testament, Your Life in Christ, Our Catholic Faith, and three recent texts to support the new US Bishops' curriculum framework.

Pennock taught theology for more than thirty-five years, mostly at his beloved alma mater, St. Ignatius High School in Cleveland, Ohio. His students, numbering more than fifteen thousand, continue to pour out their remembrances and support for the man they called “Doc Pennock.”