Spirit of Truth, High School > Course D > Unit 3
Chapter 8: Living the Vocation of Married Love Faithfully
Marriage is the perfect and complete form of human friendship.
Marriage is the perfect and complete form of human friendship.
Justice is a moral virtue that leads the Christian to give God and neighbor their due.
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.
Temperance is the virtue that resists the inordinate attachment to goods that lead to greed.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
When God created us, He gave us rules to help us stay safe and happy.
The three artifacts of the Fall are darkened intellect, weakened will, and inclination toward sin.