Współczesny kryzys sumienia wyzwaniem wychowawczym dla rodziny

Abstract

Present-day moral crisis and world's confusion have a huge influence on conscience which is attacked at present more often than it used to in the past. Nowadays conscience is put into a test, falsified and darkened. Taking this into account, one of the essential educational tasks is forming the right conscience so that everyone in any life situation will be able to differentiate good acts from the ones which are morally wrong. Any educational programme must not forget about the fundamental truth that a human being is a moral creature by nature and conscience is a guard of his dignity and his full development. The right education of a human being cannot be separated from forming the right conscience. The process of conscience formation lasts all life long, however the most suitable moment is childhood and formative years, and the best place where the conscience is being formed is family background – the place where good and bad are clearly distinguished. In the process of conscience development in the right direction meaning conscience that is responsible; the fundamental role is played by meeting Christ in God's Word, in Holy Sacraments – especially in the Eucharist and the Sacrament of Penance, a prayer for The Holy Ghost, trusting Holy Mary, everyday examination of conscience, living according to Decalogue, introducing discipline and the sense of duty. Apart from these things the quality of marital and family relations have a huge impact on the right development of a child's conscience. A family is a source of model ways of behaviour, the suitable background for shaping a human being as a person. Therefore, parents have to shape mature conscience in themselves in the first place and follow the rules of pure conscience in order to be able to form it effectively in their children. The level of shaping the conscience is depended on what a human being becomes in the whole life.