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Lesson 14: The Two Great Commandments
Jesus summarized the Ten Commandments with Two Great Commandments.
Jesus summarized the Ten Commandments with Two Great Commandments.
Jesus is our model of holiness.
The Ten Commandments are summarized and fulfilled by Jesus two Great Commandments: love God above all else and love your neighbor as yourself.
Baptism makes us adopted children of God and incorporates us into the Mystical Body of Christ – His Church
In order to be a disciple of Jesus we must love Him as our Savior and imitate Him.
Justice is a moral virtue that leads the Christian to give God and neighbor their due.
The Beatitudes are dispositions that lead us to God’s blessings.
God called Moses to free His people from bondage in Egypt and bring them to the Promised Land.
The aim of this lesson is for your children to discover that the gift of the Ten Commandments is the gift of God Himself. Obeying the First Commandment means adoring and worshipping God alone. The Second Commandment shows us that we love God by always using His name and the names of His saints with love. The Third Commandment teaches us to keep the Lord’s Day holy.
The aim of this lesson is for your children to learn that, at the Last Supper, Christ gave us the New Commandment, which He declares is the surest sign that we are His disciples. The Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy are also signs given to us by Christ, through His Church, that help us to choose the right way to respond to our brothers and sisters in the human family.
The aim of this lesson is for your children to learn that Jesus came to earth to fulfill the Old Law and the prophets, which promised a Messiah that would save us from sin and death and bring us to new life. The Beatitudes are the heart of Jesus’ preaching; therefore, through the Beatitudes we see the perfection and fulfillment of the Old Law in the New.
To love God means to love our neighbor, which is a sign of being a disciple of Christ.
With the two Great Commandments, Jesus helps us understand the Ten Commandments.
Jesus is our model of holiness.
Jesus healed people because of their faith in Him and as a sign that He is God.