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How to Print. Reference Books. LOVE OF GOD THE FIRST THREE COMMANDMENTS. INTRODUCTION. GOD’S COMMANDMENTS. GOD’S COMMANDMENTS. They set out the principles of moral life. GOD’S COMMANDMENTS. They are but One Law of Love. I John 4:20.

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  1. How to Print

  2. Reference Books

  3. LOVE OF GODTHE FIRST THREE COMMANDMENTS

  4. INTRODUCTION GOD’S COMMANDMENTS

  5. GOD’S COMMANDMENTS They set out the principles of moral life

  6. GOD’S COMMANDMENTS They are but One Law of Love

  7. I John 4:20 20 If anyone says, “I love God,” but hates his brother, he is a liar; for whoever does not love a brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. • Confraternity of Christian Doctrine. Board of Trustees, Catholic Church. National Conference of Catholic Bishops, & United States Catholic Conference. Administrative Board. (1996, c1986). The New American Bible : Translated from the original languages with critical use of all the ancient sources and the revised New Testament (1 Jn 4:20). Confraternity of Christian Doctrine.

  8. Romans 13:9-10 • 9 The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery; you shall not kill; you shall not steal; you shall not covet,” and whatever other commandment there may be, are summed up in this saying, (namely) “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” • 10 Love does no evil to the neighbor; hence, love is the fulfillment of the law. • Confraternity of Christian Doctrine. Board of Trustees, Catholic Church. National Conference of Catholic Bishops, & United States Catholic Conference. Administrative Board. (1996, c1986). The New American Bible : Translated from the original languages with critical use of all the ancient sources and the revised New Testament (Ro 13:9). Confraternity of Christian Doctrine.

  9. CCC 2055 2055 When someone asks him, "Which commandment in the Law is the greatest?" Jesus replies: "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments hang all the Law and the prophets." The Decalogue must be interpreted in light of this twofold yet single commandment of love, the fullness of the Law…

  10. GOD’S COMMANDMENTS They do not limit but protect freedom

  11. GOD’S COMMANDMENTS Jesus came not to destroy the law of the prophets but to fulfill it

  12. Mark 7:15-23 • 15 Nothing that enters one from outside can defile that person; but the things that come out from within are what defile.” • 17 When he got home away from the crowd his disciples questioned him about the parable. • 18 He said to them, “Are even you likewise without understanding? Do you not realize that everything that goes into a person from outside cannot defile, • 19 since it enters not the heart but the stomach and passes out into the latrine?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.) • 20 “But what comes out of a person, that is what defiles. • 21 From within people, from their hearts, come evil thoughts, unchastity, theft, murder, • 22 adultery, greed, malice, deceit, licentiousness, envy, blasphemy, arrogance, folly. • 23 All these evils come from within and they defile.”

  13. Matthew 5:20 20 I tell you, unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter into the kingdom of heaven. • Confraternity of Christian Doctrine. Board of Trustees, Catholic Church. National Conference of Catholic Bishops, & United States Catholic Conference. Administrative Board. (1996, c1986). The New American Bible : Translated from the original languages with critical use of all the ancient sources and the revised New Testament (Mt 5:20). Confraternity of Christian Doctrine.

  14. THE FIRST COMMANDMENT Love God with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength.

  15. Positively Stated Worship God alone

  16. Matthew 4:10 At this, Jesus said to him, “Get away, Satan! It is written: ‘The Lord, your God, shall you worship and him alone shall you serve.’” • Confraternity of Christian Doctrine. Board of Trustees, Catholic Church. National Conference of Catholic Bishops, & United States Catholic Conference. Administrative Board. (1996, c1986). The New American Bible : Translated from the original languages with critical use of all the ancient sources and the revised New Testament (Mt 4:10). Confraternity of Christian Doctrine.

  17. Romans 12:1 I urge you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, your spiritual worship. • Confraternity of Christian Doctrine. Board of Trustees, Catholic Church. National Conference of Catholic Bishops, & United States Catholic Conference. Administrative Board. (1996, c1986). The New American Bible : Translated from the original languages with critical use of all the ancient sources and the revised New Testament (Ro 12:1). Confraternity of Christian Doctrine.

  18. Negatively stated “You shall have no other gods before me.”

  19. Exodus 20:3-5 • 3 You shall not have other gods besides me. • 4 You shall not carve idols for yourselves in the shape of anything in the sky above or on the earth below or in the waters beneath the earth; • 5 you shall not bow down before them or worship them. For I, the LORD, your God, am a jealous God, inflicting punishment for their fathers’ wickedness on the children of those who hate me, down to the third and fourth generation; • Confraternity of Christian Doctrine. Board of Trustees, Catholic Church. National Conference of Catholic Bishops, & United States Catholic Conference. Administrative Board. (1996, c1986). The New American Bible : Translated from the original languages with critical use of all the ancient sources and the revised New Testament (Ex 20:3). Confraternity of Christian Doctrine.

  20. The Catholic practice of using Images and Statues is not Idolatry

  21. Exodus 25:18 Make two cherubim of beaten gold for the two ends of the propitiatory, • Confraternity of Christian Doctrine. Board of Trustees, Catholic Church. National Conference of Catholic Bishops, & United States Catholic Conference. Administrative Board. (1996, c1986). The New American Bible : Translated from the original languages with critical use of all the ancient sources and the revised New Testament (Ex 25:18). Confraternity of Christian Doctrine.

  22. Numbers 21:5-9 • 5 the people complained against God and Moses, “Why have you brought us up from Egypt to die in this desert, where there is no food or water? We are disgusted with this wretched food!” • 6 In punishment the LORD sent among the people saraph serpents, which bit the people so that many of them died. • 7 Then the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned in complaining against the LORD and you. Pray the LORD to take the serpents from us.” So Moses prayed for the people, • 8 and the LORD said to Moses, “Make a saraph and mount it on a pole, and if anyone who has been bitten looks at it, he will recover.” • 9 Moses accordingly made a bronze serpent and mounted it on a pole, and whenever anyone who had been bitten by a serpent looked at the bronze serpent, he recovered. • Confraternity of Christian Doctrine. Board of Trustees, Catholic Church. National Conference of Catholic Bishops, & United States Catholic Conference. Administrative Board. (1996, c1986). The New American Bible : Translated from the original languages with critical use of all the ancient sources and the revised New Testament (Nu 21:5). Confraternity of Christian Doctrine.

  23. CCC 2132 2132 The Christian veneration of images is not contrary to the first commandment which proscribes idols. Indeed, "the honor rendered to an image passes to its prototype," and "whoever venerates an image venerates the person portrayed in it." The honor paid to sacred images is a "respectful veneration," not the adoration due to God alone: • Religious worship is not directed to images in themselves, considered as mere things, but under their distinctive aspect as images leading us on to God incarnate. The movement toward the image does not terminate in it as image, but tends toward that whose image it is.

  24. CCC 2113 2113 ... Idolatry consists in divinizing what is not God. Man commits idolatry whenever he honors and reveres a creature in place of God, whether this be gods or demons (for example, satanism), power, pleasure, race, ancestors, the state, money, etc. Jesus says, "You cannot serve God and mammon."

  25. Sins Against the First Commandment

  26. CCC 2111 (Superstition) 2111 … To attribute the efficacy of prayers or of sacramental signs to their mere external performance, apart from the interior dispositions that they demand, is to fall into superstition.

  27. Polytheism

  28. CCC 2116 (Divination) 2116 All forms of divination are to be rejected: recourse to Satan or demons, conjuring up the dead or other practices falsely supposed to "unveil" the future. Consulting horoscopes, astrology, palm reading, interpretation of omens and lots, the phenomena of clairvoyance, and recourse to mediums all conceal a desire for power over time, history, and, in the last analysis, other human beings, as well as a wish to conciliate hidden powers. They contradict the honor, respect, and loving fear that we owe to God alone.

  29. CCC 2117 (Magic or Sorcery) 2117 All practices of magic or sorcery, by which one attempts to tame occult powers, so as to place them at one's service and have a supernatural power over others - even if this were for the sake of restoring their health - are gravely contrary to the virtue of religion. These practices are even more to be condemned when accompanied by the intention of harming someone, or when they have recourse to the intervention of demons. Wearing charms is also reprehensible. Spiritism often implies divination or magical practices; the Church for her part warns the faithful against it. Recourse to so-called traditional cures does not justify either the invocation of evil powers or the exploitation of another's credulity.

  30. CCC 2119 (Tempting God) 2119 Tempting God consists in putting his goodness and almighty power to the test by word or deed.

  31. CCC 2120 (Sacrilege) 2120 Sacrilege consists in profaning or treating unworthily the sacraments and other liturgical actions, as well as persons, things, or places consecrated to God. Sacrilege is a grave sin especially when committed against the Eucharist, for in this sacrament the true Body of Christ is made substantially present for us.

  32. CCC 2121 (Simony) 2121 Simony is defined as the buying or selling of spiritual things.

  33. Atheism

  34. CCC 2127 (Agnosticism) 2127 Agnosticism assumes a number of forms. In certain cases the agnostic refrains from denying God; instead he postulates the existence of a transcendent being which is incapable of revealing itself, and about which nothing can be said. In other cases, the agnostic makes no judgment about God's existence, declaring it impossible to prove, or even to affirm or deny.

  35. THE SECOND COMMANDMENT

  36. Positively stated Bear witness and confess the faith

  37. CCC 2145 2145 The faithful should bear witness to the Lord's name by confessing the faith without giving way to fear…

  38. Negatively Stated  “Thou shall not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain”

  39. CCC 2143 2143 … "The Lord's name is holy." For this reason man must not abuse it. He must keep it in mind in silent, loving adoration. He will not introduce it into his own speech except to bless, praise, and glorify it.

  40. Sins Against the Second Commandment

  41. CCC 2146 (Abuse of God’s Name) 2146 The second commandment forbids the abuse of God's name, i.e., every improper use of the names of God, Jesus Christ, but also of the Virgin Mary and all the saints.

  42. CCC 2147(Promises Made in God’s Name) 2147 Promises made to others in God's name engage the divine honor, fidelity, truthfulness, and authority. They must be respected in justice. To be unfaithful to them is to misuse God's name and in some way to make God out to be a liar.

  43. CCC 2148 (Blasphemy) • 2148 Blasphemy is directly opposed to the second commandment. It consists in uttering against God - inwardly or outwardly - words of hatred, reproach, or defiance; in speaking ill of God; in failing in respect toward him in one's speech; in misusing God's name…The prohibition of blasphemy extends to language against Christ's Church, the saints, and sacred things.

  44. False Oaths • CCC 2149 • CCC 2154 • Mt. 5:34 & 37

  45. CCC 2149 (False Oaths) 2149 Oaths which misuse God's name, though without the intention of blasphemy, show lack of respect for the Lord. The second commandment also forbids magical use of the divine name. • [God's] name is great when spoken with respect for the greatness of his majesty. God's name is holy when said with veneration and fear of offending him.

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