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CHAPTER SEVENLove for God
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God, who is Love, has given every creature the greatest gift of all, his Son, Jesus Christ.
Nothing More to Give
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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.
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Keeping the Commandments
covenant
The strongest possible pledge and agreement between two
parties
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Keeping the Commandments
The 10 Commandments
Often called the Decalogue
Means 10 words
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Keeping the Commandments
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.
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Keeping the Commandments
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.
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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.
Keeping the Commandments
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You shall worship the Lord your God and Him only shall you serve.
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 and the Theological Virtues
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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
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Faith
Ways to strengthen faith:
Prayer
Read the Bible
Celebrate the sacraments
Study your faith
Associate with and listen to people of faith
Put your faith into action
Avoid temptations and sin that threaten to destroy the gift of faith
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FaithAvoid these temptations and sin that threaten to destroy the gift of 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
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Hope
We trust that God controls the future and is watching out for us.
Hope gives us confidence that God keeps all his promises
Ways to violate the virtue of 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.
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Charity
♥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.”
♥Charity involves:♥Reverence
♥Sacrifice
♥Beginning
♥Rooting out sin:
♥Indifference
♥Ingratitude
♥Lukewarmness or spiritual laziness
♥Hatred of God
The First Commandment and the Theological Virtues
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Living the First Commandment
The First Commandment and the Theological Virtues
Acts of Religion
Adoration
Prayer Sacrifice
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Avoiding Offenses Against the First Commandment
The First Commandment and the Theological Virtues
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.) , and magic
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Avoiding Offenses Against the First Commandment
The First Commandment and the Theological Virtues
Atheism (denies God’s existences) and agnosticism (claims ignorance about God’s existence
claiming it cannot be proved.)
Irreligion – tempting God, sacrilege (profane or unworthy treatment of the sacraments, other liturgical actions, and persons, places, and things consecrated to
God.), and simony (the buying or selling of spiritual goods.)
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Avoiding Offenses Against the First Commandment
Forms of non-belief in God: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.
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You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.
This commandment stresses the importance of respecting God’s name.
By respecting God’s name, we show respect for the mystery of God himself.
By taking care of how we invoke God’s name, we recognize that some things are sacred and holy.
This commandment also underscores the holiness of our own name because we are baptized “in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.”
The Second Commandment
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Avoiding Offenses 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.)
The Second Commandment
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Avoiding Offenses Against the Second Commandment
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), and vulgarity (tasteless or coarse behavior or language).
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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
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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.
As a community of believers, we thank God together through the Eucharist.
The Third Commandment
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VocabularyFaithHopeCharityCovenantDecalogueVoluntary doubtIncredulityHeresyApostasySchismDespairPresumption
AgapeCaritasIdolatryDivinationSacrilegeSimonyHumanismMaterialismBlasphemySwearingObscenityCussingVulgarity