JESUS AS THE GOOD TEACHER
Christ’s redeeming grace to the progressive
IS ALWAYS PRESENT IN THIS CHURCH
AND IN THE WORLD
-It is to the Church that Christ entrusted the
task of proclaiming the message of
salvation to all people.
-To fulfill this task, Christ empowered the
Church to proclaim, without fear of error,
faith and morals, in the hope of leading
people to the realization or actualization of
the kingdom of God here on earth.
-In embracing this divine mandate, the
Church confronted bravely the changes as
well as the challenges that each generation
brings, holding onto the promise that Christ
will be with his people until the end of time
(Matthew28:16-20).
-The Church must always be deeply
conscious of her duty in every age to
examine the signs of the times and interpret
them in the light of the Gospel.
-So that she can often in a manner
appropriate to each generation replies to the
continual human questionings on the
meaning of this life to come and on how the
are related.
-Hence, the Church as the People of God
among the nations, while attentive to the
new challenges of history and to mankind’s
efforts to discover the meaning of life, offers
to everyone the answer which comes from
the truth about Jesus and hisGospel. Ibid.,2.
1.OPENS UP THE FAITHFUL TO THE
BOOK OF THE SCRIPTURES
-The return to our moral foundations in
Scripture is the first step toward a more
balanced, authentic catechesis of Christian
moral life in family, school, andparish.
-The very name of Jesus means “the one
who is to save people from their sins.”
-The Christian moral vocation is precisely:
To commit ourselves through the power of
overcoming of the evil of sin in and around
us – a personal human reaching out in
loving service to others–rather than simply
avoiding sin or shrinking from evil.
-It is a question of conversion, a radical
change of heart that, once begun in
baptism, must develop into an ever more
profound personal renewal and holiness.
2.REVEALS THE FATHER’S WILL
-The three-fold yeses covering the three
dimensions of human life:
the intra-personal; the interpersonal;and the
societal…
Must be grounded on the fourth
foundational, integrating yes to God. The
only way we could possibly develop an
integral saying “yes” to the fullness of
human life by our total committed “yes” to
God, as disciples of Jesus Christ.
“The Son of God, the Christ, Jesus that we
proclaimed among you…was neverYes and
No:
…With him it was always yes, and however
many the promises God made,the yes to
them all is in Him.
…That is why it is through Him that we
answer Amen to the praise of God.
Nothing less than the love of the Blessed
Trinity – the love of Father, Incarnate
Son,and the Holy Spirit– is the ground for
Catholic Morality.
Thus, catechesis must stress that Christian
life means bearing witness to God revealed
by Jesus Christ.

This demands a radical change of heart, a
real conversion, manifested in a triple yes to
self, others, and society, and grounded in
the ultimate yes to God, overcoming the
“No” of sin.
3.TEACHES TRUTH ABOUT MORAL
ACTION
-People today need to turn to Christ once
again in order to receive from Him the
answer to their questions about what is
good and what is evil.
Christ is the teacher, the Risen One who
has life in Himself and who is always
presentin His Church and in the World. It is
He who opens up to the faithful the book of
the Scriptures and, by fully revealing the
Father’s will, teaches the truth about moral
action.
At the source and summit of the economy of
salvation, as the alpha and the omega of
human history, Christ sheds light on man’s
condition and his integral vocation.
If we,therefore,wish to go to the heart of the
Gospel’s moral teaching and grasp its
profound and unchanging content, we must
carefully inquire into the meaning of the
question asked by the rich young man in the
Gospel and, even more, the meaning of
Jesus’ reply, allowing ourselves to be
guided by Him.
Jesus as the patient and sensitive teacher,
answers the young man by taking him, as it
were by the hand, and leading him step by
step to the full truth.VS,8.,Ibid.,8.
4.SHEDS LIGHT ON MAN’S CONDITION
AND LOFTY VOCATION
The first and ultimate vocation of man is
communion with God and there is only one
way to respond to this calling: Jesus Christ.
The basic motivation for following Christ in
moral action is, of course the Blessed
Trinity, the eternal Father’s love for us.
The Father’s love is manifested pre-
eminently in Jesus’ Paschal Mystery,and
the Holy Spirit sent into our hearts who
enables us to fulfill Christ’s own command:
Love one another as I have loved you.
The meaning of love for Saint John is:
“not our love for God, but God’s love for us
when He sent His Son to be the sacrifice
that takes our sins away. My dear people,
since God has loved us so much, we too
should love one another.”
Jesus as Good Teacher:
1. Jesus walks his talk ( In words & deeds)
2. Jesus teaches with authority unlike the
scribes or other teachers (Matthew 7: 29)
3. He uses parables
4. Opens up the faithful to the book of the
Scriptures - The return to our moral
foundations in Scripture
5. Reveals the Father’s Will
6. Is always present in this Church and in
the World