2. The Ten Commands are divided into 2 parts - The first 3 shows us the way to love God - The last 7 show us how to love our neighbors
3. What is the greatest commandments? 1 It is to love God with all your hearts and to love your neighbors as yourself
First Commandment
1. What does it teach us? - To love God above all things and worship Him alone - We worship God by: participate in Mass, adore Him in the Holy Eucharist. And we love and have faith in Him, hope in Him and Pray to Him. - Why do we worship God?: Because God is the Most Holy and only One. He is our loving Father in heaven ad who takes care and love us always.
2. What are the sins against 1st Command? - Deny the truth which God teaches through the Bible and the Church - Deny your faith in God - Worship the devil or other gods (money, sciences, satanism...) - Believe in superstition (horoscope, dreams, crystal gazing, lucky charms...)
3. The 1st Command also command us to honor the Blessed Vergin Mary and the saints but not to worship them.
4. What is the difference between adoration and honor (veneration)? - Adoration: is the worship we give to God alone as the infinitely holy and Supreme Bring - Honor (Veneration): is the honor we give to the Blessed Virgin as the Mother of God and the saints
The Second Commandment
1. What does the 2nd Command teach us? - Always love and respect the name of God, the Virgin Mary and all the saints - Respect all the sacred things: the Bible, altar, holy bread, chalice....) - To be truthful and faithful in taking oaths and keeping the vows
2. What is the difference between promise and vow? - Promise: is make a simple to onself or to other - Vow: is a free and deliberate promise make to God
3. What are the sins against 2nd Command? - Using the name of God in vain, perjury, blasphemy, cursing or taking a vow with God but did not keep it - Using the name of God to swear or curse
4. What are Perjury, Blasphemy and Cursing? - Perjury: is calling of God's name to bear witness to a lie - Blasphemy: is any word, thought or action which shows disrespect to God, the Blesesed Virgin, the saints and religion - Cursing: is the calling down of evil on some person or place
The Third Commandment
1. What does the 3rd Command teach us? - Go to mass on Sunday and Holy days of Obligation - Not ot do unnecessary work
2. What kinds of work can be done on Sunday? - Spend time to study, read good books, play sports-recreation - Do good works of charity, visit a nursiing home or someone sick
3. Who can work on Sundays? - Policemen, nurses, doctors, firemens...
4. What are the sins against the 3rd Command? - Miss Sundays mass and Holy days of Obligation with no good reasons - Go to work on Sundays without the priest's permission
* There are 6 Holy days of Obligation and 52 Sundays in a liturgical year
The 5th Commandment The 5th commandment teaches us to take proper care of our own life and the lives of others. Murder, suicide, fight, anger, hatred, revenge, drunkness, reckless driving and all that could harm our bodies are forbidden by the 5th command. Chief crimes committed against human life and dignity are abortion, euthanasia or "mercy killing", suicide and mutilation of human body.
The 8th Commandment The 8th commandment obliges us to be truthful, to interpret in the bes possible way the action of others. In order to keep the 8th command properly, we must avoid: 1. False witness and perjury 2. Rash judgement assuming something as true without sufficient reason which is harmful to others 3. Suspicious - not believing in the truth of others, but rather, thinking bad of them 4. Detraction (gossiping) - without valid reason, making known faults and failing of one person to others 5. Lying - speaking a falsehood with the intention of deceiving 6. Calummy - when a person injuries the good name of another by lying 7. Insult - dishonoring a person who is present by contemptuous words or action 8. Revealing secrets that are not to be revealed - telling of whatever that is suppose to be kept confidential: health records, sins and secrets told in the Sacrament of Reconciliation
The 4th Commandment
1. What does the 4th Command teach us? - To respect and love our parents - To obey parents on all that is not contrary to God's law - To help parents in all their needs - To respect and obey our teachers, lawful superiors, civil and ecclesiastical
2. What does the 4th Command forbid? - Disrespect, unkindess, stubborness, spitfulness, complaints and disobedience toward our parents and lawful authorities
3. How do children show their love and respect for their parents? - When they speak and act with gratitude - Try to please them - Readily accept corrections from parents - Patiently bear with their parents' faults - Pray for them when they are living and dead
4. What are the duties of parents toward their children? - To love, provide for their material welfare, instruct and give them Christian education - Have their children receive all (most) the sacraments - Correct their defects, train them by words and examples in the practice of Christian virtue - Council and guide them in forming a correct moral conscience
The 6th and 9th Commandments
1. What does the 6th and 9th Commands teach us? - The 6th Commands teach us to be pure and modest in behavior; both when alone with others (in actions and conversation) - The 9th Comand teach us to be pure in thoughts and desire (in thinking, imagining and desires)
2. What are the principal means for practicing purity? - We must pray daily - Watched our actions and conversations - Avoid as much as possible all dangerous occasion of sin (bad movies, magazines...)
3. What are some means of resisting temptations? - Self- knowledge: know ones strength and awareness - Practice adapt to the situation that is being confonted - Obedience to God's Commandments (6h and 9th) - Exercise of moral virtues: Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, Temperance - Fidelity to prayer
The 7th and 10th Commandments
1. What does the 7th and 10th Commands teach us? - To be honest - To be just in our actions - To respect creation and all that concern the possession of others
2. What does the 7th and 10th Commands forbid us? - 7th Command: to steal, rob, do unjust acquisitoin of goods and reckless destruction of what belongs to others.
- 10th Command: - The desire to take, damage or to keep our neighbor's goods - Greed and the desire to amass earthy goods without limit - Avarice arising from a passion for riches and their attendant power - The desire to commit injustice by harming our neighbor in his temporal goods - Envy from the heart
3. What are the main sins against the 7th and 10 Commands? - Stealing, cheating, charging exorbitant price, careless work, violation of contacts and agreement and envious of others possession.
4. What else does the 7th Command teach us? - Human work proceeds directly from person created in the image of God and called to prolong the work of creation by subducing the earth, both with and for one another - Everyone has the right of economuc initiative; everyone should make legitimate use of his talents to contribute to the abundance that will benefit all and to harvest the just fruits of his labor
- Rich nations have a grave moral responsibility toward those which are unable to ensure the means of their development by themself or have been prevented from doing so by tragic historical events. - The works of mercy are charitable action by which we come to the aid of our neighbor in his spiritual and bodily neccessities
5. Are we bound to return stolden goods? - We are bound to return stolen goods and their value in money to the owner or if the owner is dead, to his family. If neither the owner nor the family can be discovered, the goods or their value are to be given to the poor or to charitable palces
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