Lesson 7
The Fourth Commandment and the Domestic Church
The Fourth Commandment teaches children to honor their mother and father, as this is the most basic and universal of all relationships. It also protects God’s beautiful plan for the family, and helps us to understand the relationship that God intended between the family and society. As a community of persons united in faith, and reflecting the creative work of God Our Father, the Christian family rightly is called the “domestic church,” the church of the home.