Whether it's in the CTF chat, when you're tempted to deceive someone, take what is not yours or watch something which will darken your intellect and purity, ask your self something. What does my conscience say? Think about this....
Conscience is not just a feeling. It is first of all a knowing, an awareness of truth about good and evil.
Conscience is not infallible. It can err, like anything in us. It can mistake what is evil for good and what is good for evil. Therefore one of the first things conscience obligates us to do is to educate and inform our conscience. This is a lifelong task of refinement through experiences and openness to God's goodness and harmony.
Conscience is not a person but it can be trained like a muscle. It can also atrophy like a muscle when unused. Its' first and most important exercise is honest listening.
"It is important for every person to be sufficiently present to himself in order to hear and follow the voice of his conscience. This requirement of an interior life is all the more necessary as life often distracts us from any reflection, self-examination or introspection." CCC 1779
Your conscience speaks softly. It whispers in that still small voice (1 Kings 19:12). It respects your freedom and requires an effort of your free will to hear it.
Train your conscience by:
1) honestly and passionately willing yourself to hear it and to know truth.
2) spend time alone with God to be receptive to His gentle voice.
First, and foremost create silence and trust. You have been created in a mighty and wonderful way, good young people. You are so much greater than many of you allow yourself to be.
Rise to the beauty for which you have been created in Him. Follow your conscience with purity of heart and your actions will follow towards goodness.
I so want to believe in your generation as the one which will say no to the insolence and violence and yes to His glory.
Listen. Please listen.
Mrs P
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I need to practice the discipline of silence more often....
