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Truth
On Tap, Straight Up,
    No Chaser

      OLOP|YA
    Our Lady of Peace
   Young Adult Group




                        Still The One
Overview

       Quid est veritas?
               •   Truth   Personified
               •   Truth   and Unity
               •   Truth   and Holiness
               •   Truth   and Suffering
               •   Truth   and Freedom
       Offenses Against Truth
               •   Relativism
               •   Rash Judgement
               •   Detraction
               •   Calumny
               •   Boasting




OLOP|YA
YOUNG ADULTS                               Truth
Quid est veritas?
Truth Personified
      "For this I was born and for this I came into the
      world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs
      to the truth listens to my voice.“ John 18:37




      God himself is an eternal exchange of love, Father,
      Son and Holy Spirit, and he has destined us to share
      in that exchange. CCC 221
OLOP|YA
YOUNG ADULTS                  Truth
Truth Personified

      "Jesus said to him, 'I am the way and the truth and
      the life. No one comes to the Father except through
      me.” John 14:6




OLOP|YA
YOUNG ADULTS                 Truth
Truth and Unity

      “There is only one God…there is
      only one Christ…he has only one
      body…and he is the shepherd of
      one flock.”
               John 10:16 (also see Eph 4:5-6)


      “I urge you, brothers, in the name
      of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of
      you agree in what you say, and
      that there be no divisions among
      you, but that you be united in the
      same mind and in the same
      purpose.”
                                   1 Cor 1:10

OLOP|YA
YOUNG ADULTS                         Truth
Truth and Unity

      “Complete my joy by being of the same mind, with
      the same love, united in heart, thinking one thing.”
      Phil 2:2




OLOP|YA
YOUNG ADULTS                  Truth
Truth and Unity

                     “And so I say to you, you are
                     Peter, and upon this rock I will
                     build my church, and the gates of
                     the netherworld shall not prevail
                     against it. I will give you the keys
                     to the kingdom of heaven.
                     Whatever you bind on earth shall
                     be bound in heaven; and
                     whatever you loose on earth shall
                     be loosed in heaven.” Matt 16:18-19


OLOP|YA
YOUNG ADULTS              Truth
Truth and Unity

               “But if I should be
               delayed, you should
               know how to behave
               in the household of
               God, which is the
               church of the living
               God, the pillar and
               foundation of truth.”
                            1 Tim 3:15




OLOP|YA
YOUNG ADULTS                             Truth
Truth and Unity

      “Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations,
      baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the
      Son, and of the holy Spirit, teaching them to
      observe all that I have commanded you. And
      behold, I am with you always, until the end of the
      age.” Matt 28:19-20




OLOP|YA
YOUNG ADULTS                 Truth
Truth and Holiness

      "… those who worship him
      must worship in Spirit and
      truth.“ John 4:24




OLOP|YA
YOUNG ADULTS                 Truth
Truth and Holiness




      Man tends by nature toward the truth. He is obliged to honor
      and bear witness to it: "It is in accordance with their dignity
      that all men, because they are persons . . . are both impelled
      by their nature and bound by a moral obligation to seek the
      truth, especially religious truth. They are also bound to
      adhere to the truth once they come to know it and direct
      their whole lives in accordance with the demands of truth.“
      CCC 2467

OLOP|YA
YOUNG ADULTS                       Truth
Truth and Holiness
                                 "They will expel you from the synagogues;
         "Without                in fact, the hour is coming when everyone
     knowledge even                  who kills you will think he is offering
     zeal is not good;                    worship to God.” John 16:2
     and he who acts
    hastily, blunders.”
           Proverbs 19:2




                              "If a blind
                           person leads a
                            blind person,
                            both will fall
                             into a pit.”
                           Matthew 15:14



OLOP|YA
YOUNG ADULTS                 Truth
Truth and Holiness

      "I urge you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of
      God, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy
      and pleasing to God, your spiritual worship. Do not
      conform yourselves to this age but be transformed
      by the renewal of your mind, that you may discern
      what is the will of God, what is good and pleasing
      and perfect.“ Romans 12:1-2




OLOP|YA
YOUNG ADULTS                   Truth
Truth and Holiness

               "Where were you when I laid the foundation of
               the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding.
               Who determined its measurements -- surely you
               know! Or who stretched the line upon it? On
               what were its bases sunk, or who laid its
               cornerstone, when the morning stars sang
               together, and all the sons of God shouted for
               joy? "Or who shut in the sea with doors, when it
               burst forth from the womb; when I made clouds
               its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling
               band, and prescribed bounds for it, and set bars
               and doors, and said, `Thus far shall you come,
               and no farther, and here shall your proud waves
               be stayed'? Job 38:4-11

OLOP|YA
YOUNG ADULTS                   Truth
Truth and Holiness
                                             “Only in truth does charity shine
                                             forth, only in truth can charity be
                                             authentically lived…Without truth,
                                             charity degenerates into
                                             sentimentality. Love becomes an
                                             empty shell, to be filled in an
                                             arbitrary way. In a culture without
                                             truth, this is the fatal risk facing
                                             love.”
                                             “Fidelity to man requires fidelity to
                                             the truth, which alone is the
                                             guarantee of freedom and of the
                                             possibility of integral human
                                             development.”

                                                          B16, Caritas in Veritate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhfHB3MpWTQ
OLOP|YA
YOUNG ADULTS                                   Truth
Truth and Suffering

                          “Then many of his disciples
                          who were listening said,
                          'This saying is hard; who
                          can accept it?„…As a result
                          of this, many (of) his
                          disciples returned to their
                          former way of life and no
                          longer accompanied him.”
                                           John 6:60,66




OLOP|YA
YOUNG ADULTS             Truth
Truth and Suffering

      “I do not ask that you take them
      out of the world but that you keep
      them from the evil one. They do
      not belong to the world any more
      than I belong to the world.
      Consecrate them in the truth. Your
      word is truth. As you sent me into
      the world, so I sent them into the
      world. And I consecrate myself for
      them, so that they also may be
      consecrated in truth.” John 17:15-19.

OLOP|YA
YOUNG ADULTS                   Truth
Truth and Freedom

      Jesus then said to those Jews who believed in him,
      "If you remain in my word, you will truly be my
      disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth
      will set you free." John 8:31-32




      Freedom and Truth are two sides of the same coin.
OLOP|YA
YOUNG ADULTS                  Truth
Truth and Freedom

      “There is no true freedom except in the service of
      what is good…The choice to disobey and do evil is
      an abuse of freedom and leads to the „slavery of
      sin‟” (CCC, n. 1733).




OLOP|YA
YOUNG ADULTS                  Truth
Offenses Against Truth
Relativism

   Moral absolutism is         Moral relativism is the view that
   the meta-ethical view       ethical standards, morality, and
   that certain actions        positions of right or wrong are
   are absolutely right or     culturally based and therefore subject
                               to a person's individual choice. We can
   wrong.                      all decide what is right for ourselves.
                               You decide what's right for you, and I'll
                               decide what's right for me.




OLOP|YA
YOUNG ADULTS                 Truth
Relativism

      "The LORD God gave man this order: 'You are
      free to eat from any of the trees of the garden
      except the tree of knowledge of good and bad.
      From that tree you shall not eat;
      the moment you eat from
      it you are surely doomed
      to die.' " Genesis 2:16-17




OLOP|YA
YOUNG ADULTS                  Truth
Relativism

      “Revelation teaches that the power to decide what is good
      and what is evil does not belong to man, but to God alone.
      The man is certainly free, inasmuch as he can understand
      and accept God‟s commands. And he possesses an extremely
      far-reaching freedom, since he can eat „of every tree of the
      garden.‟ But his freedom is not unlimited: it must halt before
      the „tree of the knowledge of good and evil,‟ for it is called to
      accept the moral law given by God. In fact, human freedom
      finds its authentic and complete fulfillment precisely in the
      acceptance of that law. God, who alone is good, knows
      perfectly what is good for man, and by virtue of his very love
      proposes this good to man in the commandments. God‟s law
      does not reduce, much less do away with human freedom;
      rather, it protects and promotes that freedom."
                 Pope John Paul II‟s encyclical „Veritatis Splendor,‟ section 35.
OLOP|YA
YOUNG ADULTS                          Truth
Relativism

      If there is no objective truth, then all we have is
      “Might Makes Right”, survival of the fittest.




OLOP|YA
YOUNG ADULTS                   Truth
Relativism in the Government

 According to a July 6 press release from
 the Thomas More Society, a Chicago-based
 pro-life law center, the IRS has told
 the Coalition for Life of Iowa it will
 not receive nonprofit status unless the
 Iowa pro-life organization promises to
 limit its “picketing” and “protesting”
 of Planned Parenthood.

                    http://www.ncregister.com/daily/irs_helps_planned_parenthood/




OLOP|YA
YOUNG ADULTS               Truth
Relativism in the Media
 The media has "an obligation to the public," Archbishop Chaput stated, "a
 duty to illuminate public discourse by presenting the facts of a story in
 a full and truthful context, regardless of the intellectual fashions of
 the moment.“

 “Too many news professionals don’t live up to this standard. And some,
 quite candidly, don’t seem to try.“

 In the face of the media's failure to give a voice to the truth religion
 offers, Archbishop Chaput urged the audience of Catholic business
 professionals to "refuse to be stupid."

 "We can decline to be sandbagged by our news establishment into thinking
 that marriage for homosexual partners is inevitable or an obligation of
 social justice; or that Islam and Christianity lead to pretty much the
 same conclusions about freedom, society and the nature of the human
 person; or that the abortion issue is somehow 'settled' when thousands of
 unborn children continue to be legally killed everyday," he said.

 As he brought his address to a close, Archbishop Chaput called for
 Catholics to let their public moral witness "on abortion and every other
 vital social issue" be formed "not by the nightly news, but by learning
 and living an authentic Catholic faith.”
                                                     http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=16515



OLOP|YA
YOUNG ADULTS                        Truth
Relativism




                         http://liveaction.org/


    Our series of hidden camera investigations, collected by a team
     led by Lila Rose in summer 2008, provide the public the inside
       story about the abortion industry and its abuses across the
     nation. Despite a consistent pattern of lawlessness and abuse,
  Planned Parenthood receives over $320 million from taxpayers each
       year. The tax-exempt "nonprofit" netted $100 million in net
   income last year including revenue of over $100 million directly
                    from performing 289,000 abortions.



OLOP|YA
YOUNG ADULTS                     Truth
Relativism

      "For the time will come when people will not tolerate
      sound doctrine but, following their own desires and
      insatiable curiosity, will accumulate teachers and will
      stop listening to the truth and will be diverted to
      myths." 2 Timothy 4:3-4




OLOP|YA
YOUNG ADULTS                   Truth
Offenses Against Truth
Offenses Against Truth

      He becomes guilty of rash judgment who, even
      tacitly, assumes as true, without sufficient
      foundation, the moral fault of a neighbor;
      He becomes guilty of detraction who, without
      objectively valid reason, discloses another's faults
      and failings to persons who did not know them;
      He becomes guilty of calumny who, by remarks
      contrary to the truth, harms the reputation of others
      and gives occasion for false judgments concerning
      them.
      Boasting or bragging is an offense against truth.
                                                CCC 2477, 2481

OLOP|YA
YOUNG ADULTS                  Truth
Who is Truth?

               I AM THE TRUTH




OLOP|YA
YOUNG ADULTS         Truth
Pope John Paul the Great




                 pray for us
OLOP|YA
YOUNG ADULTS         Truth

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2009 07 11 Truth

  • 1. Truth On Tap, Straight Up, No Chaser OLOP|YA Our Lady of Peace Young Adult Group Still The One
  • 2. Overview Quid est veritas? • Truth Personified • Truth and Unity • Truth and Holiness • Truth and Suffering • Truth and Freedom Offenses Against Truth • Relativism • Rash Judgement • Detraction • Calumny • Boasting OLOP|YA YOUNG ADULTS Truth
  • 4. Truth Personified "For this I was born and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice.“ John 18:37 God himself is an eternal exchange of love, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and he has destined us to share in that exchange. CCC 221 OLOP|YA YOUNG ADULTS Truth
  • 5. Truth Personified "Jesus said to him, 'I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” John 14:6 OLOP|YA YOUNG ADULTS Truth
  • 6. Truth and Unity “There is only one God…there is only one Christ…he has only one body…and he is the shepherd of one flock.” John 10:16 (also see Eph 4:5-6) “I urge you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree in what you say, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and in the same purpose.” 1 Cor 1:10 OLOP|YA YOUNG ADULTS Truth
  • 7. Truth and Unity “Complete my joy by being of the same mind, with the same love, united in heart, thinking one thing.” Phil 2:2 OLOP|YA YOUNG ADULTS Truth
  • 8. Truth and Unity “And so I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” Matt 16:18-19 OLOP|YA YOUNG ADULTS Truth
  • 9. Truth and Unity “But if I should be delayed, you should know how to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of truth.” 1 Tim 3:15 OLOP|YA YOUNG ADULTS Truth
  • 10. Truth and Unity “Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age.” Matt 28:19-20 OLOP|YA YOUNG ADULTS Truth
  • 11. Truth and Holiness "… those who worship him must worship in Spirit and truth.“ John 4:24 OLOP|YA YOUNG ADULTS Truth
  • 12. Truth and Holiness Man tends by nature toward the truth. He is obliged to honor and bear witness to it: "It is in accordance with their dignity that all men, because they are persons . . . are both impelled by their nature and bound by a moral obligation to seek the truth, especially religious truth. They are also bound to adhere to the truth once they come to know it and direct their whole lives in accordance with the demands of truth.“ CCC 2467 OLOP|YA YOUNG ADULTS Truth
  • 13. Truth and Holiness "They will expel you from the synagogues; "Without in fact, the hour is coming when everyone knowledge even who kills you will think he is offering zeal is not good; worship to God.” John 16:2 and he who acts hastily, blunders.” Proverbs 19:2 "If a blind person leads a blind person, both will fall into a pit.” Matthew 15:14 OLOP|YA YOUNG ADULTS Truth
  • 14. Truth and Holiness "I urge you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, your spiritual worship. Do not conform yourselves to this age but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and pleasing and perfect.“ Romans 12:1-2 OLOP|YA YOUNG ADULTS Truth
  • 15. Truth and Holiness "Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding. Who determined its measurements -- surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it? On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone, when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? "Or who shut in the sea with doors, when it burst forth from the womb; when I made clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band, and prescribed bounds for it, and set bars and doors, and said, `Thus far shall you come, and no farther, and here shall your proud waves be stayed'? Job 38:4-11 OLOP|YA YOUNG ADULTS Truth
  • 16. Truth and Holiness “Only in truth does charity shine forth, only in truth can charity be authentically lived…Without truth, charity degenerates into sentimentality. Love becomes an empty shell, to be filled in an arbitrary way. In a culture without truth, this is the fatal risk facing love.” “Fidelity to man requires fidelity to the truth, which alone is the guarantee of freedom and of the possibility of integral human development.” B16, Caritas in Veritate http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhfHB3MpWTQ OLOP|YA YOUNG ADULTS Truth
  • 17. Truth and Suffering “Then many of his disciples who were listening said, 'This saying is hard; who can accept it?„…As a result of this, many (of) his disciples returned to their former way of life and no longer accompanied him.” John 6:60,66 OLOP|YA YOUNG ADULTS Truth
  • 18. Truth and Suffering “I do not ask that you take them out of the world but that you keep them from the evil one. They do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world. Consecrate them in the truth. Your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, so I sent them into the world. And I consecrate myself for them, so that they also may be consecrated in truth.” John 17:15-19. OLOP|YA YOUNG ADULTS Truth
  • 19. Truth and Freedom Jesus then said to those Jews who believed in him, "If you remain in my word, you will truly be my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." John 8:31-32 Freedom and Truth are two sides of the same coin. OLOP|YA YOUNG ADULTS Truth
  • 20. Truth and Freedom “There is no true freedom except in the service of what is good…The choice to disobey and do evil is an abuse of freedom and leads to the „slavery of sin‟” (CCC, n. 1733). OLOP|YA YOUNG ADULTS Truth
  • 22. Relativism Moral absolutism is Moral relativism is the view that the meta-ethical view ethical standards, morality, and that certain actions positions of right or wrong are are absolutely right or culturally based and therefore subject to a person's individual choice. We can wrong. all decide what is right for ourselves. You decide what's right for you, and I'll decide what's right for me. OLOP|YA YOUNG ADULTS Truth
  • 23. Relativism "The LORD God gave man this order: 'You are free to eat from any of the trees of the garden except the tree of knowledge of good and bad. From that tree you shall not eat; the moment you eat from it you are surely doomed to die.' " Genesis 2:16-17 OLOP|YA YOUNG ADULTS Truth
  • 24. Relativism “Revelation teaches that the power to decide what is good and what is evil does not belong to man, but to God alone. The man is certainly free, inasmuch as he can understand and accept God‟s commands. And he possesses an extremely far-reaching freedom, since he can eat „of every tree of the garden.‟ But his freedom is not unlimited: it must halt before the „tree of the knowledge of good and evil,‟ for it is called to accept the moral law given by God. In fact, human freedom finds its authentic and complete fulfillment precisely in the acceptance of that law. God, who alone is good, knows perfectly what is good for man, and by virtue of his very love proposes this good to man in the commandments. God‟s law does not reduce, much less do away with human freedom; rather, it protects and promotes that freedom." Pope John Paul II‟s encyclical „Veritatis Splendor,‟ section 35. OLOP|YA YOUNG ADULTS Truth
  • 25. Relativism If there is no objective truth, then all we have is “Might Makes Right”, survival of the fittest. OLOP|YA YOUNG ADULTS Truth
  • 26. Relativism in the Government According to a July 6 press release from the Thomas More Society, a Chicago-based pro-life law center, the IRS has told the Coalition for Life of Iowa it will not receive nonprofit status unless the Iowa pro-life organization promises to limit its “picketing” and “protesting” of Planned Parenthood. http://www.ncregister.com/daily/irs_helps_planned_parenthood/ OLOP|YA YOUNG ADULTS Truth
  • 27. Relativism in the Media The media has "an obligation to the public," Archbishop Chaput stated, "a duty to illuminate public discourse by presenting the facts of a story in a full and truthful context, regardless of the intellectual fashions of the moment.“ “Too many news professionals don’t live up to this standard. And some, quite candidly, don’t seem to try.“ In the face of the media's failure to give a voice to the truth religion offers, Archbishop Chaput urged the audience of Catholic business professionals to "refuse to be stupid." "We can decline to be sandbagged by our news establishment into thinking that marriage for homosexual partners is inevitable or an obligation of social justice; or that Islam and Christianity lead to pretty much the same conclusions about freedom, society and the nature of the human person; or that the abortion issue is somehow 'settled' when thousands of unborn children continue to be legally killed everyday," he said. As he brought his address to a close, Archbishop Chaput called for Catholics to let their public moral witness "on abortion and every other vital social issue" be formed "not by the nightly news, but by learning and living an authentic Catholic faith.” http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=16515 OLOP|YA YOUNG ADULTS Truth
  • 28. Relativism http://liveaction.org/ Our series of hidden camera investigations, collected by a team led by Lila Rose in summer 2008, provide the public the inside story about the abortion industry and its abuses across the nation. Despite a consistent pattern of lawlessness and abuse, Planned Parenthood receives over $320 million from taxpayers each year. The tax-exempt "nonprofit" netted $100 million in net income last year including revenue of over $100 million directly from performing 289,000 abortions. OLOP|YA YOUNG ADULTS Truth
  • 29. Relativism "For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine but, following their own desires and insatiable curiosity, will accumulate teachers and will stop listening to the truth and will be diverted to myths." 2 Timothy 4:3-4 OLOP|YA YOUNG ADULTS Truth
  • 31. Offenses Against Truth He becomes guilty of rash judgment who, even tacitly, assumes as true, without sufficient foundation, the moral fault of a neighbor; He becomes guilty of detraction who, without objectively valid reason, discloses another's faults and failings to persons who did not know them; He becomes guilty of calumny who, by remarks contrary to the truth, harms the reputation of others and gives occasion for false judgments concerning them. Boasting or bragging is an offense against truth. CCC 2477, 2481 OLOP|YA YOUNG ADULTS Truth
  • 32. Who is Truth? I AM THE TRUTH OLOP|YA YOUNG ADULTS Truth
  • 33. Pope John Paul the Great pray for us OLOP|YA YOUNG ADULTS Truth