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Lesson 5

The First through Third Commandments

The first three Commandments help us to order our lives towards heaven.

Catechism Connections

Lesson Topics
Catholic Apologetics Church History Heresies Old Testament Salvation History
Essential Lessons

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Lesson Vocabulary

  • Idol
    :
    (n.): A representation of a false god.
  • Doubt
    :
    (n.): The sin of voluntarily disregarding or refusing to hold as true what God has revealed and the Church proposes for belief.
  • Heresy
    :
    (n.): The obstinate denial after Baptism of a truth which must be believed with divine and Catholic faith.
  • Schism
    :
    (n.): A division caused by differences in belief. Among sins against the First Commandment, schism is the refusal of submission to the pope or of communion with the members of the Church subject to him.
  • Presumption
    :
    (n.): The sin of presuming we can save ourselves through our own efforts, or of expecting God’s forgiveness even if we do not repent of our sins and turn back to Him. Presumption breaks the First Commandment.
  • Despair
    :
    (n.): The sin of voluntarily giving up hope in our salvation from God, in help attaining it, or in the forgiveness of sins. Despair is contrary to God’s goodness, justice, and mercy and breaks the First Commandment.
  • Indifference
    :
    (n.): The neglect or refusal of God’s love in contradiction to the First Commandment. To be indifferent is to lack concern or sympathy and not be personally invested in something one way or the other.
  • Ingratitude
    :
    (n.): The failure or refusal to acknowledge God’s love and to love Him back. Ingratitude is a lack of appreciation for gifts and blessings.
  • Lukewarmness
    :
    (n.): Hesitation or negligence in responding to divine love. To be lukewarm is to be neither hot nor cold, to fail to give oneself over to the prompting of love.
  • Acedia
    :
    (n.): Spiritual sloth, or refusing the joy that comes from God and instead feeling repelled by divine goodness.
  • Hatred of God
    :
    (n.): The cursing of God for forbidding sinful actions and punishing those who sin. Hatred of God comes from pride and denies God’s love.
  • Superstition
    :
    (n.): The attribution of a kind of magical power to certain practices or objects like charms or omens. Reliance on such power, rather than on trust in God, constitutes an offense against the honor due to God alone as required by the First Commandment.
  • Irreligion
    :
    (n.): Sins forbidden by the First Commandment, including tempting God in words or deeds, sacrilege, and simony.
  • Sacrilege
    :
    (n.): The profaning or treating unworthily the Sacraments, other liturgical actions, as well as persons, things, or places consecrated to God. Sacrilege is a grave sin especially when committed against the Eucharist.
  • Divination
    :
    (n.): The practice of seeking knowledge about the future through such practices as consulting mediums, the interpretation of omens, horoscopes, astrology, palm reading, and even seeking out Satan or demons or conjuring up the dead.
  • Magic
    :
    (n.): The practice of attempting to tame occult powers to place them at one’s service and to have a supernatural power over others. Magic is gravely contrary to the virtue of religion even if it is attempted for the sake of restoring health. Also known as sorcery.
  • Occult
    :
    (n.): Perceived secret knowledge, practices, and artifacts associated with supernatural, new age, psychic, or demonic phenomena, usually with the intent of gaining personal power, in practices including astrology, witchcraft, ouija boards, fortune telling, freemasonry, horoscopes, shamanism, wicca, and demon worship. All occult practices are a grave and potentially dangerous violation of the First Commandment.
  • YAHWEH
    :
    (n.): The personal name of God, revealed to Moses on Mt. Sinai, meaning “I am who I am.”
  • Chosen People
    :
    (n.): A title given to the people of Israel, the People of God, whom He had called out or assembled in His name. Most often used to describe the Israelites led out of slavery in Egypt in the Exodus, to whom the Ten Commandments were given through Moses.
  • Perjury
    :
    (n.): The act of giving one’s word falsely or making a promise under oath without intending to keep it. It is a violation of the Second and Eighth Commandments.
  • Blasphemy
    :
    (n.): Speech, thought, or action involving contempt, hatred, or defiance against God, His Church, or the saints or other persons or things dedicated to God.
  • Sabbath
    :
    (n.): The day set aside each week for rest and worship of God, echoing how God rested on the seventh day of creation.
  • Holy Day of Obligation
    :
    (n.): A day on which Catholics are expected to attend Holy Mass and rest from work. There are ten such days in the Universal Church calendar, though local bishops can suppress holy days or transfer them to Sundays; dioceses in the US typically observe five or six.

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