Introduction: Living a Moral Life

We need ______________ in life.

Our _____________ can help us find our way.

We need our values like we need a __________ , we’ll be lost without them.

Youth Culture

Watch out for any kind of ________, they are trying to manipulate you to get  ____________ out of you.

Be wise, be __________ when it comes to TV, music and movies.

Be a media critic, don’t be a _______________, 
__________ everything without thought.

Youth Culture (continued)

You are the largest generation of 
  teenagers ever at _____________ strong

Teens themselves spend more than _____________ per year 

Teen push their parents to spend an additional ___________ per year

Youth Culture (continued)

Teens run today’s __________________

What makes the teen market so
 _____________ is that they don't operate the same way as the rest of us. 

But there is one thing they do respond to: __________ 

Youth Culture (continued)

The search for this elusive prize has its own name: “__________________."  

Advertisers look for the 20 percent, the ______________________,  or the “____________________” that are going to influence the other 80 percent.

Youth Culture (again)

Of the five media giants, the coolest conglomerate on the block is ___________. 

Viacom's crown jewel is ______, which last year earned the company a _________ dollars in profits. 

Everything on MTV is a _____________

Youth Culture

There's been a kind of feverish addiction to ________________ and understanding young people that's been embraced from the very top down.

MTV shuts the door in their bedrooms and talk to them about issues that they feel like are really ________________ to them without any __________________ getting in the way

The MTV machine doesn't listen to the young so it can make the young _________. The MTV machine tunes in so it can figure out how to pitch what Viacom has to ___________.

Happiness?

People are ______________ about how to 
be ___________.

All too often, the pursuit of ___________________
leads people down the wrong ___________.

Happiness is like the _______ of a 
__________, it follows those who do 
not _______________ it.

Gospel of Mark

The gospel of Mark records an example 

of a ___________ youth who sensed that 

_____________ was the source and

_____________ to a __________________ life.

Mark 10:17 says, “Good Teacher, 

what must I do to inherit _________________ life?

Mark (continued)

We can learn important things from this young man…

A. We should approach _________and ask 

him for his _____________.

B.  We must put his ___________ into ________ or we will never 

be  _______

C.  We must tear through all the _______

	and realize that deep down we all seek  ____________.

What Kind of Quest?

Our great and noble ______________,
therefore, is to realize that humans have layers and that deep down we all seek union with ___________, _______________, and ______________.

And if we are seeking other things, we are ____________ and will never be ____________.

Definition of Morality

Morality is a special kind of   ________________,

knowing what ____________ to be done.  

Morality is the ___________ 

of what humans _______________ to do by 

reason of _____________ they are.

Catholic Morality…

Catholic Morality draws on

A.  Human _______________ (God-given 
         
       _______________)

B. Human __________________ ( Collecting 
       
     wisdom of ____________ living and dead.

C. Divine ____________________ (Scriptures 
     
      and _______________________)