We can trace every social sin back to a failure to follow one of the Ten Commandments, for each one contains within it many moral principles of social life.
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 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.
The aim of this lesson is for your children to learn that the Fifth Commandment tells us to acknowledge all life as a God-given gift. Keeping the Fifth Commandment not only means respecting physical life, but also the life of the soul, and safeguarding the dignity of all human persons. Your children will also learn that the Sixth Commandment requires us to be pure in the use of our sexuality. In creating man and woman in His image and likeness, God designed them to be a reflection of the intimate, free, and loving communion that is at the heart of the Trinity.
Your children will learn that the Seventh Commandment tells us we are not to take what is due to others. The Eighth Commandment speaks to us of living a life faithful to the truth. In the Ninth and Tenth Commandments, we are forbidden from desiring someone impurely and desiring what belongs to another.
To love God means to love our neighbor, which is a sign of being a disciple of Christ.
Through Moses, God leads the Israelites to freedom from slavery in Egypt by parting the waters of the Red Sea and destroying Pharaoh’s army.
Jesus is the light of the world and the way, the truth, and the life.
Morality is the quality of our actions whereby they are right or wrong.
There is no freedom except in service of what is good and just; because we are free to make choices, we are responsible for those choices.
The Old and New Testaments together make up one story of Salvation History.
We have a solemn obligation to form our consciences.
The Ten Commandments have their fullest meaning in the context of covenant.
