CHAPTER SEVEN

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CHAPTER SEVEN

• Love for God

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Nothing More to Give
God, who is Love, has given every creature the
greatest gift of all, his Son, Jesus Christ.
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Theological Virtues
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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
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Keeping the Commandments
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Keeping the Commandments

• 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.

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The First Commandment and
the Theological Virtues

• 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.

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The First Commandment and
the Theological Virtues

• Faith
• This virtue empowers us to say yes to God.
• It enables us to believe everything God has
  revealed to us.

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The First Commandment and
the Theological Virtues

• 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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The First Commandment and
the Theological Virtues

• Faith
• Avoid 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 popes
  authority or remain in union with members of the
  Catholic Church

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The First Commandment and
the Theological Virtues

• 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 Gods
  help or God will automatically be merciful if we
  dont repent.

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The First Commandment and
the Theological Virtues

• 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 ones heart.
• Charity involves
• Reverence
• Sacrifice
• Beginning
• Rooting out sin
• Indifference
• Ingratitude
• Lukewarmness or spiritual laziness
• Hatred of God

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The First Commandment and
the Theological Virtues
Living the First Commandment
Adoration
Acts of Religion
Prayer
Sacrifice
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The First Commandment and
the Theological Virtues
Avoiding Offenses 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.) , and magic
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The First Commandment and
the Theological Virtues
Avoiding Offenses Against the First Commandment
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.)
Atheism (denies Gods existences) and agnosticism
(claims ignorance about Gods existence claiming
it cannot be proved.)
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The First Commandment and
the Theological Virtues

• 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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The Second Commandment

• You shall not take the name of the Lord your God
  in vain.
• This commandment stresses the importance of
  respecting Gods name.
• By respecting Gods name, we show respect for the
  mystery of God himself.
• By taking care of how we invoke Gods 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.

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The Second Commandment
Avoiding Offenses Against the Second Commandment
Breaking promises made in Gods name
Blasphemy (hateful, defiant, reproachful thoughts
and words, or acts against God, Jesus, his
Church, the saints, or holy things.)
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The Second Commandment
Avoiding Offenses Against the Second Commandment
Taking the Lords name in vain swearing
(misuse of Gods name in making false promises,
cursing other people, or using Gods 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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The Third Commandment

• Remember to keep holy the Lords 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.

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

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Vocabulary

• Agape
• Caritas
• Idolatry
• Divination
• Sacrilege
• Simony
• Humanism
• Materialism
• Blasphemy
• Swearing
• Obscenity
• Cussing
• Vulgarity

• Faith
• Hope
• Charity
• Covenant
• Decalogue
• Voluntary doubt
• Incredulity
• Heresy
• Apostasy
• Schism
• Despair
• Presumption