THE TEN COMMANDMENTS Love for God Love for Neighbor

THE TEN THE TEN COMMANDMENTSCOMMANDMENTS

Love for GodLove for Neighbor

Keeping the Commandments

Covenant

The strongest possible pledge and agreement between two

parties


The 10 Commandments

Often called the Decalogue

Means 10 words


Love of God

I am the Lord your God: you shall nothave strange Gods

before me.

You shall not take the name of the

Lord your God inVain.

Remember to keep holy the Lord’s

Day.


Loving Neighbor

Honor your father and

mother

Youshallnot kill.

Youshallnot

commitadultery.

Youshallnot

steal.

Youshallnotbearfalse

witnessagainstyour

neighbor.

Youshallnot

covetyour

neighbor’s

wife.

Youshallnot

covetyour

neighbor’s

goods.

Church Tradition

The Decalogue is a unity.

Each commandment refers to each of the others and to all collectively.

To break one of the commandments is to break the whole Law.


Theological VirtuesFaith –

enables us to believe in God and what the Church proposes for our belief

Hope – leads us to

desire heavenand eternal life

through trust in Godand the graces of the

Holy Spirit

Charity – the greatest of

all virtues; enables us to love God

above all things and our neighboras ourselves.

I am the LORD your God: you shall not have strange gods before me.

This commandment teaches us to accept the one true God of love.

This means we must worship God.

The theological virtues enable us to relate to God and carry out this command.

The First Commandment

Faith

This virtue empowers us to say “yes” to God.

It enables us to believe everything God has revealed to us.

The First Commandment and the Theological Virtues

FaithWays to strengthen faith:

Prayer

Read the Bible

Celebrate the Sacraments

Study your faith

Fellowship

Put your faith into action (discipleship)

Avoid temptations and sin


FaithSins against faith:

Voluntary Doubt – the decision to ignore or a refusal to believe what God has revealed or what the Church teaches.

Incredulity – a mental disposition that either neglects revealed truth or willfully refuses to assent to it.

Heresy – outright denial by a baptized person of some essential truth about God and faith that we must believe.

Apostasy – The total rejection of Jesus Christ (and the Christian faith) by a baptized Christian.

Schism – refusal to submit to the pope’s authority or remain in union with members of the Catholic Church


Hope

We trust that God controls the future and is watching out for us.

Hope gives us confidence that God keeps all his promises

Sins against hope:

Despair – losing hope that God can save us

Presumption – we can save ourselves without God’s help or God will automatically be merciful if we don’t repent.


Charity

♥The Four Loves: Storge, Philia, Eros & Agape

♥Agape – selfless, giving love

♥Agape love is the type of love Jesus has for us, and the kind of love we should show others.

♥ Latin word for love, caritas, means “holding someone close to one’s heart.”

♥Sins against Charity:

♥Religious Indifference

♥Ingratitude

♥Lukewarmness or spiritual laziness

♥Hatred of God


Living the First Commandment:


Acts of Religion

Adoration

Prayer Sacrifice

Sins against the First Commandment


Idolatry (the worship of false gods)

Superstition, Divination (attempts to unveil what God wants hidden by calling up demonic powers, consulting

horoscopes, the stars, or mediums, palm reading, etc.)

Magic (attempts to tame occult powers, so as to place them at one’s service and have a supernatural power over others)



Atheism (denies God’s existences)

Agnosticism (claims ignorance about God’s existence claiming it cannot be proved.)

Irreligion – or Sacrilege (profane or unworthy treatment of the sacraments, other liturgical actions, and

persons, places, and things consecrated to God.)

Simony (the buying or selling of spiritual goods.)


Forms of non-belief in God:Secular Humanism – a belief that defies humanity and

human potential to the exclusion of any belief in or reliance on God.

Freudianism – claims belief in God is mere wishful thinking

Materialism – a belief that the physical, material world is the only reality, and that spiritual existence, values and faith are illusions.


You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain.

Stresses the importance of respecting God’s name.

By respecting God’s name, we show respect for God himself.

And recognize that some things are sacred and holy.

The Second Commandment

Sins against the Second Commandment

Breaking promises made in God’s name

Blasphemy (hateful, defiant, reproachful thoughts and words, or acts against God, Jesus, his Church, the saints, or

holy things.)


Sins against the Second Commandment


Taking the Lord’s name in vain:

Swearing (misuse of God’s name in making false promises,

cursing other people, or using God’s name frivolously), Perjury (when one fails to keep a promise sworn under oath

or when one takes an oath with no intention of keeping it.), Obscenity (indecent, lewd, or offensive language, behavior, appearance, or expressions), cussing (an informal word that means the same thing as cursing, the calling down of evil on

someone), Vulgarity (tasteless or coarse behavior or language).

Remember to keep holy the LORD’S day.

This commandment stresses the value of play (recreation) and prayer on the Sabbath day.

It is important to use this day as a day to praise, worship and adore God. Sabbath is our small gift to God in thanksgiving for all of his gifts.

For Christians, the Sabbath is Sunday, commemorating Easter and the beginning of the week.

The Third Commandment

Why We Go to Mass

We go to Mass to give as well as receive.

Jesus wants us to come together to experience him in the Eucharist, his scriptural Word, and in each other (Community).

As a community of believers, we thank God together through the Eucharist.

The Third Commandment

The Fourth CommandmentHonor your Father and Mother

This commandment helps regulate relationships within our social groups where authority is exercised.

Honor involves respect, admiration, and recognition of one’s dignity.

Honor flows from the virtue of justice.

The Fourth CommandmentHonor

This commandment promotes family values.The family is the “domestic church” which

mirrors the love and community of the Triune God.

Every human being is worthy of honor, especially parents.

Children should honor their parents by observing their wishes. Parents should honor their children as precious images of God, and respect their vocation and career choices.

The Fourth CommandmentHonor your father and mother.

Ageism Prejudice against old people

Euthanasia

Any “action or omission which of itself and by intention causes

death, with the purpose of eliminating suffering “ (Gospel of

Life, 65).

The Fifth CommandmentYou shall not kill.

Human life comes from and returns to God.

This commandment teaches respect for human life

It condemns as gravely sinful any direct, intentional killing.

The Fifth CommandmentSpecial Examples of Killing

Capital Punishment:

Criminals do merit punishment for their crimes.

Purpose of punishment:

To set right the disorder caused by criminal offenses

To preserve public order and personal safety

To correct the offender

Revenge can never be the motive for our actions.


Capital Punishment:

Reasons U.S. Bishops oppose capital punishment in A Culture of Life and the Penalty of Death:

The sanction of death, when it is not necessary to protect society, violates respect for human life and dignity.

State-sanctioned killing in our names diminishes all of us.

Its application is deeply flawed and can be irreversibly wrong.

We have other ways to punish criminals and protect society.


The Catholic Church is against war, always promoting a peaceful settlement of disputes.

War:

The Catholic Church recognizes

that governments have the right and

responsibility to pass laws to enlist

citizens to help defend the nation.


Conditions to fight in a “just” war:

There must be a real, lasting, grave and certain danger.

War must be a last resort.

The rights and values in the conflict must be important enough to justify killing.

War has to be waged for the noblest reasons and with a commitment for postwar reconciliation with the enemy.


Conditions to fight in a “just” war:

Only proper representation of the people have the right to declare a war of defense.

The chance of success must be calculated against the human cost of war.

Armed conflict must not create even worse evil than that to be eliminated.


The moral law hold in times of warfare. There must be no attacks on innocent noncombatants; genocide; terrorism; or use of nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons – all of which indiscriminately destroy persons and property.

The Fifth CommandmentAbortion and Other Violations Against the Fifth Commandment

Abortion

The deliberate killing of unborn human life

by means of medical or surgical procedures.

Direct abortion is seriously wrong because it is an

unjustified attack on human life.

The Fifth CommandmentAbortion and Other Violations Against the Fifth Commandment

The fifth commandment forbids scandal; kidnapping; hostage-taking; torture of prisoners; terrorist acts; and bodily mutations, amputations, and sterilizations performed for non-medical purposes.

The Fifth CommandmentWhat Can we do About Abortion?

Respect all life.

Don’t judge others.

Pray.

Get involved.

Be informed.

The Fifth CommandmentCorporal Works of Mercy

The Church holds that one is not guilty of the sin of euthanasia when a decision is made with the patient’s approval to withhold “aggressive medical treatment.”

Extraordinary means (like a heroic and costly operation on a dying patient) can be refused

Ordinary means (food, oxygen) should always be used to care for the sick.

A person may take painkillers to lessen suffering.


Taking of one’s own life

Suffering of grave psychological

problems

We should not judge. We should pray.

Suicide


The intentional assistance of any dying or suffering

person in taking his or her own life.

Assisted Suicide

Respecting Personal Health

The Fifth Commandment requires us to exercise the virtue of prudence to take care of our health, one of God’s precious gifts to us.

However, we should not make our bodies our god.

Respecting Personal Health

TemperanceTemperanceAbstinence – tempers our desire

for food and other pleasure-producing substances

Abstinence – tempers our desirefor food and other

pleasure-producing substances

Sobriety – moderates ourdesire for alcoholic drinksSobriety – moderates ourdesire for alcoholic drinks

Chastity – helps us controlour sex drive in a way

compatible with our state in life

Chastity – helps us controlour sex drive in a way

compatible with our state in life

You shall not commit adultery. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife.

These commandments serve as safeguards of God’s intention for human sexuality.

They warn against the disrespectful and harmful actions involving sex.

The Sixth and Ninth Commandments

God created us as sexual beings.

Sex is derived from the Latin word secare which means “to separate.”

Both created in God’s image, men and women are complementary beings who are equal in dignity.

According to Genesis, sex was intended to be very good.

The Goodness of Sex

Our sexuality involves our emotional and spiritual makeup.

Sexual activity involves respect: looking at ourselves as creations of God and looking at others as persons and not objects to be used.

The Goodness of Sex

Sexual Intercourse is for Marriage

God intended sexual intercourse and all actions leading up to it to be shared exclusively by a man and a woman in the union of marriage.


Fidelity

Marital faithfulness between husbands and wives that requires reserving all sexual activity and affection for each other and also asks couples to be loyal to each other through good times and

bad.

Two Purposes of Sex in Marriage


The sharing

of LOVE

between the

spouses

Purposes of SexTransmission

of LIFE

Two Purposes of Sex in Marriage

Moral means of birth regulation must be in harmony with the two ends of marriage: openness to life and sharing of love.

Periodic abstinence and Natural Family Planning methods are effective, natural ways of regulating birth.

It is wrong to use immoral means to conceive a child. Any procedure that separates sexual love making from the act of procreation is disordered.


Offenses Against Marriage:

Adultery – sexual relations with someone other than one’s spouse or an unmarried person with a married person

Divorce – dissolution of the marriage contract

Polygamy – having more than one spouse

Incest – sexual intimacy between relatives or in-laws within a degree that prohibits marriage

Free unions – extended relationships where couples refuse to have their commitment formalized or sanctioned by law. e.g. Cohabitation


Chastity, Purity, and Modesty

ChastityThe virtue that helps us control our sexual desires and use them according to our situation in life.

ModestyThe virtue of temperance, related to the virtue of purity, applies to how a person speaks, dresses, and conducts himself or herself. Protects the intimate center of a person by refusing to unveil what should remain hidden.

Allowing our sexual thoughts and desires to control us. Lust

Masturbation – the deliberate stimulation of the genitals to obtain solitary sexual pleasure

Fornication – sexual intercourse engaged in by an unmarried male and female

Pornography – media that’s motivation is to depict sex acts in a way that causes sexual arousal

Offenses Against The Sixth and Ninth Commandments

Offenses Against The Sixth and Ninth Commandments

Prostitution – engaging in sexual intercourse or other sexual activity for money or some other advantage

Rape – forcing another to have sex

Homosexual activity – sexual activity between members of the same sex. Lacks unity between a husband and wife and openness to the transmission of human life

Offenses Against The Sixth and Ninth CommandmentsHomosexual Activity

Those with homosexual orientation are not morally guilty for who they are.

Prejudice against someone who has a homosexual orientation is wrong. We must accept persons of homosexual orientation as our brothers and sisters.

Seventh CommandmentYou shall not steal.

This commandment outlaws theft, that is, taking someone else’s property against his or her will.

Seventh Commandment calls for respect for the property rights of others.

Seventh CommandmentYou shall not steal.

This commandment also requires us to respect the beautiful creation God gave us for the use of all humans – past, present, and future.

Seventh commandment outlaws anything that leads to the enslavement of people.

Tenth CommandmentYou shall not covet your neighbor’s goods.

This commandment deals with the inner desires, the “lust of the eyes” which is at the root of theft, robbery, fraud, etc.

Tenth CommandmentYou shall not covet your neighbor’s goods.

The Tenth Commandment outlaws:

Greed - desire to accumulate unlimited goods

Avarice - the passionate desire for riches and the power that comes with them

Envy - sadness over another person’s possessions and the desire to get them for oneself.

Eighth CommandmentYou shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

Keep any promises you make, and be faithful to the truth.

This commandment rejects the vices of:

Duplicity – being deceptive or misleading

Dissimulation – hiding something by pretense

Hypocrisy – the false claim or pretense of having admirable principles, beliefs, or feelings

Violations Against the Eighth Commandment

Eighth Commandment

Violations

False witness and perjury

Failing to respect the reputation

of others

Encouraging others to do evil

Boasting and

BraggingIrony

Perjury – false witness

under oath

Rash judgment – assumes without adequate evidence

a moral fault in another person

Detraction – Revealing a person’s

fault and failing to someone who

did not previously know about them and

who had no need or right

to know about them

Flattery – paying someone

a compliment to gain a favor

Adulation – giving

excessive admiration to someone

Complaisance – pleasing

others so they can

carry out your wishes

Calumny – Lying about others so

people will make false judgments about them

Lying

Violations Against the Eighth CommandmentSeriousness of a lie:

1. The nature of the truth that is distorted

2. The circumstances

3. The intentions of the one who lies

4. The harm suffered by the victims of the lie

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THE TEN COMMANDMENTS Love for God Love for Neighbor