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Lesson 14: Why Did God Give Us Ten Commandments?
The Ten Commandments state the requirements to love God and our neighbor.
The Ten Commandments state the requirements to love God and our neighbor.
The first three commandments are the fundamental requirements for loving God.
The fourth through sixth commandments teach us to honor our parents, all human life, and be pure and modest in our behavior.
The seventh through tenth commandments teach us to respect what belongs to others, tell the truth, and not desire things which belong to others.
Jesus helps us understand the Ten Commandments, and provided the example for the New Commandment
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 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.
Marriage is the perfect and complete form of human friendship.
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.