Pastoral Counseling

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Pastoral Counseling

• Pastoral Counseling Virtue

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Pastoral Counseling

• Pastoral counseling approaches questions and
  issues which people face from the perspective of
  faith

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Counseling

• Counseling is a general term for a wide variety
  of procedures for helping people cope with
  personal problems or adjust to difficult
  situations.

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Christian notion of counseling

• Two essential factors
• Advice given is based on the premises of faith,
  appealing to ones trust in divine providence
• Counseling is joined with a prayer for light to
  guide the mind in discerning the will of God.

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Pastoral Counseling

• Context
• Faith
• Principles
• Moral
• Philosophical
• Theological

• Trust in Divine Providence
• Prayer to discern the will of God

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Counsel

• Inquiry about the right choice of means to attain
  a particular end, the advice give in response.
  
• Also, a directive or recommendation by one in
  authority, which does not bind to its observance,
  as does a law or precept.

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Psychotherapy

• The major rudiments of psychotherapy center on
  helping the unconscious become conscious take
  form
• Helping one express what they are experiencing
• Understanding what they are experiencing
• Expressing to the person ones understanding of
  what they are experiencing
• Providing direction

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Pastoral Counseling

• Understanding and prudent counsel based upon the
  premises of faith combined with trust in divine
  providence and prayer to discern the will of God.

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Goals

• Confidence as pastoral counselors
• Essential vision of health, human nature,
  marriage and family life
• Practical pedagogical approaches and interventions

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Health

• Will
• Love what Church loves
• Intellect
• See what Church sees

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Context of Reality

• 3 Persons

• 4 Events

• Creation
• Fall
• Redemption
• Final Judgment

• Father
• Jesus
• Adam

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In face of reality

• Live in Harmony
• Rebel
• Deny it exists

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Souls Powers and Virtue

• Reason
• Will
• Irascible
• Concupiscible

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Effects of Original Sin
Ignorance
Malice
Weakness
Concupiscence
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Four WoundsToil with the sweat . . .
Reason Is Obscured
Original Sin
Good Actions more difficult
Less Self Control
Will hardened to evil
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Virtues

• Theological
• Faith
• Hope
• Charity

• Moral
• Prudence
• Temperance
• Fortitude
• Justice

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Theological Virtues
Object is God
Faith
Hope
Charity
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Cardinal Virtues
Means to Happiness
PRUDENCE
CARDINAL VIRTUES
FORTITUDE
JUSTICE
TEMPERANCE
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Prudence

• Good Decisions
• Good Action

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Temperance

• Control of passions
• Moderates and Directs

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Fortitude

• Overcoming obstacles
• Firmness and constancy

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Justice

• Giving to each what is due to them
• Mastery over instincts
• Keeps desires within what is honorable

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Maturity

• Sound judgment
• Self Control and Discipline
• Responsible
• Just

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Questions elicit common ground

• What values are in a healthy family?
• What qualities would you like to see in a
  friend?

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VIRTUES

• Virtues manifest love
• They enable us to love well . . . to express
  love well
• kindness, respect, trust, understanding,
  generosity, friendship, humility, patience,
  gentleness, forgiveness, tolerance . . . etc..

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Virtues are good habits

• God determines the moral good
• Happiness is union with God.
• Happiness in this life is conditional
• Perfect happiness is possible only in the next
  life.

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Common Goal with Non-believer

• Union with God
• Catholic Faith
• Happiness
• Virtues

• Atheist
• God without faith
• Christian Non-Catholic
• Happiness
• Virtues

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Suffering Pain

• Pain is part of Life
• Not just unhealthy family life
• Pain reveals the presence of some evil
• to overcome or to reject
• Pain is part of healing and restoration
• Suffering increases ones capacity for love for
  happiness

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Virtues bring union

• Union within ourselves
• Mastery of our passions so that we might direct
  them to our purpose.

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Virtues

• Enable us to give ourselves to what we choose
• Enable us to overcome obstacles to our love
• Protect what we love.
• Are the qualities of human maturity.

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Spiritual Powers
Intellect-to know the truth
Will- to love the good
Physical powers
Passions Love, HateMemory Fear, DaringHope,
DespairPleasure, PainJoy, SadnessAnger
Cognitive
Internal Sense Memory Common sense Cogitative
Power Imagination
External Senses Sight, Touch, Taste, Hearing,
Smell
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Vice is a bad habit
Virtue leads one to happiness God
Vice leads one away from happiness God
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Each virtue is opposed by 2 vices

• 1st The exact opposite
• 2nd An excessive degree of the virtue

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Too much of a good thing

• Selfishness
• Lying
• Laziness
• Disorder
• Cowardice

• Generosity
• Sincerity
• Industry
• Order
• Courage

Prodigality Deviousness Workaholic Neat
Freak Foolhardy
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Sanctity is in the struggle

• Moderation in all things

• Movement, direction and intent are important

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Virtue a good habit CCC 1803

• A virtue is an habitual and firm disposition to
  do the good.
• to perform good acts,
• to give the best of himself.

• The virtuous person
• tends toward the good with all his sensory and
  spiritual powers
• pursues the good and chooses it in concrete
  actions.

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Disposition

• A disposition is the ability to effect or suffer
  something according to an innate readiness of
  something for certain kinds of activity.

• Faculty disposed well
• Acts well with facility
• Faculty disposed poorly
• Acts with greater difficulty

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How do we get Virtues?

• Action
• Repetition
• Being
• Becomes part of character
• Value
• Becomes something we value

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What bad habits?

• Obsession/Compulsion
• Anger
• Selfishness
• Impurity
• Greed
• Sloth
• Immodesty
• Self-indulgence

• Imprudence
• Indecisiveness
• Incivility
• Distrust
• Impatience
• Intolerance
• Pride
• Disorder

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Fight evil with good

• Obsession/Compulsion-Moderation
• Anger-Forgiveness
• Greed-Selfishness-Generosity
• Impurity-Purity, Chastity, Continence
• Sloth-Industry, Diligence, Courage
• Immodesty-Discretion, Modesty
• Self-indulgence-Temperance, Mortification

• Imprudence-Prudence
• Indecisiveness-Decisiveness
• Incivility-Respect
• Distrust-Trust
• Impatience-Patience
• Intolerance-Tolerance
• Pride-Humility
• Disorder-Order

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