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Lesson 15: The First through Third Commandments
The first three commandments are the fundamental requirements for loving God.
The first three commandments are the fundamental requirements for loving God.
The Ten Commandments state the requirements to love God and our neighbor.
The Fourth Commandment is “Honor your father and mother.”
Jesus inaugurates the Kingdom of God on earth because He founded the Catholic Church during His earthly life.
Jesus summarized the Ten Commandments with Two Great Commandments.
God is love and He made us out of love.
We are all called to chastity.
Happiness is the goal of a moral life.
When we engage in interreligious dialogue, the Church calls us to acknowledge, preserve, and encourage the good spiritual and moral things in others, always with prudence and love and in witness to the Christian life.
The Church understands marriage to be a covenant that remains binging on the spouses even if they feel the relationship has become difficult or unbearable. It is for this reason the Church believes marriage is an indissoluble union and does not recognize divorce.
Marriage is the perfect and complete form of human friendship.
The Sacrament of Marriage is a sign to the world of God’s love and the means by which Christ sanctifies a couple and leads them to Heaven. The most appropriate place for the marriage rite is within a liturgical celebration, preferably a Nuptial Mass surrounded by Christian witnesses.
Justice is a moral virtue that leads the Christian to give God and neighbor their due.
The universal call to holiness is the vocation of every human person; God calls each of us to be holy as He is holy, that is, to be saints.
Temperance is the virtue that resists the inordinate attachment to goods that lead to greed.