Conscience.

We have the duty and responsibility to educate ourselves, to form our conscience. Conscience is therefore mainly the basis of a person’s inner dignity, and at the same time of his relationship with God (Bl. John Paul II). Jesus tells us: “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets…” (Mt 5:77). He wants to fulfill his mission to the letter and letter, that is, everything as it was in God’s plan from the beginning.

Laws created by man need to be changed. Other circumstances, status, and other people come. God’s laws remain the same. God is the supreme lawgiver. God’s law can only be changed by God. Man would like to change God’s law, he cannot. Many people would like to adopt God’s law to their possibilities. God does not want the decline of man. God does not allow sin to be committed. If lying were allowed, everyone on earth would become a liar. If stealing is allowed, everyone will be a thief. If murder is allowed, everyone becomes a murderer. And so it is with every sin. And life on earth would become hell. God’s law helps a person to improve in morality, in the spirit of peace of common life. The most advantageous path of life for a person is the path on which a person preserves the Right. The law and the commandments do not want to enslave man. Vice versa. A person who realizes what God wants using prohibitions and commands faithfully observes them. He sees in them God who is Love. The greater the knowledge of Love, the more decisive the attitude against sin, and the more decisive the attitude toward Love. A wandering conscience binds (St. TA II/II q.19 ​​a.5.).

It is necessary to pay attention to the education of a person’s conscience. It is not enough that a person learns the commandments, but he must confront his actions with the commands. If a person understands well the meaning of the individual commands and the meaning of their whole, then he reaches the ideal of life and accepts the Church as a means on the path of life, which helps him, directs him, directs and leads him safely on the path to eternal life.

It can happen that under the influence of the environment, circumstances of life, and other circumstances, a person loses a clear view of some commandment, and it is precisely here that the mission of the Church is to guide him so that he does not remain in error. The Church is the authority in the field of faith and morals. Jesus gave power to Peter and promised the Holy Spirit. Therefore, only the Church has the right and duty to explain the commandments of faith and morals. He cannot leave it to personal opinion or the opinion of a group or some leader. Morality begins where words end (A.Schweitzer). History and today are proof of false ideologies and false leaders.

It is recommended from time to time to stop and seriously reconsider or check your conscience. This is how we talk about the evening examination of conscience, which is recommended as hygiene of the soul when we pay the same attention to the hygiene of the body. A short examination of conscience is at the beginning of every Holy Mass. It is appropriate because the Mass is the holiest sacrifice, and we should prepare accordingly for it.