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CHAPTER: 7 - COMMANDMENTS
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What does the first
commandment demand from us?
It summons us to believe in God, to hope in
Him and to love Him above all things.
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Mention some of the sins
against first commandment?
Idolatry, Divination, Sacrilege, Atheism and
challenging God in words and deeds.
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What does the second
commandment say?
It prescribes respect for the Lord’s name.
It forbids the abuse of God’s Name. This
also demands us to honor all holy persons
and things and to keep our lawful oaths and
vows.
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What are the sins against
the second commandment?
Blasphemy, Cursing, False Oaths and Perjury
(a promise under oath with no intention of
keeping it).
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What does the third
commandment demand from us?
It demands us to abstain from those labors
and business concerns which impede the
worship to be rendered to God, the joy
proper to the Lord’s Day or proper
relaxation of mind and body.
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Why do we celebrate
Sunday as the ‘Sabbath Day’?
Jesus rose from the dead on the first day of
the week, viz. Sunday.
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What is the meaning of
the fourth commandment?
God has willed that, after him, we should
honor our parents and those vested with
authority for our good. It also includes and
presupposes the duties of parents,
instructors, teachers, leaders and
magistrates and all those who exercise
authority over others.
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What are the duties of
children towards their parents?
Children owe their parents respect,
gratitude, just obedience and assistance.
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What does the fourth
commandment forbid?
It forbids all contempt, stubbornness and
disobedience to our parents and lawful
superiors
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Why does the firth
commandment prohibit killing?
God alone is the Lord of life, from its
beginning unitl its end. No one can,
under any circumstance, claim for himself
the right directly to destroy any innocent
human being.
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Are we allowed to use
legitimate defense?
Legitimate defense can be not only a right
but a grave duty for some one responsible
for another’s life, the common good of the
family or of the state.
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Which are the sins
against fifth commandment?
It forbids willful murder, abortion,
euthanasia, suicide, fighting, quarrelling,
bad example and scandal.
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What does the fifth
commandment mean?
Every human life from the moment of
conception unitl death is sacred because the
human person has been made in the image and
likeness of holy and living God.
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What does the sixth
commandment forbid?
If forbids all sins of impurity.
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What is chastity?
Chastity is a moral virtue which seeks to
permeate the passions and appetites of the
senses with reason resulting in a successful
integration of the sexuality within the
person.
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What are the offences
against chastity?
Lust, Masturbation, Fornication,
Pornography, Prostitution, Rape,
Homosexuality and Lesbianism.
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What are the offences
against dignity of marriage?
Adultery, Divorce, Polygamy and Free union.
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What is adultery?
It refers to martial infidelity. When two
partners of whom at least one is married to
another party, have sexual relations, they
commit adultery.
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What does the Seventh
commandment forbid?
It forbids unjustly taking or keeping the
goods of one’s neighbor and wronging him in
any way with respect to his goods.
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What is the meaning of
seventh commandment?
It enjoys the practice of justice and
charity in the administration of earthly
goods and fruits of men’s labor.
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What is theft?
It is the taking away of another’s goods
against the reasonable will of the owner.
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What does the eighth
commandment prohibit?
It prohibits misrepresenting the truth in
our relations with others e.g.. False
testimony, rash judgment, lies, calumny,
detraction, etc. We are called to bear
witness to God who is the truth and wills
the truth.
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What do you understand by
truth?
Truth is the virtue which consists in
showing oneself true in deeds and truthful
in words, and guarding against duplicity,
dissimulation and hypocrisy.
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If you have injured your
neighbor by speaking ill of him, what are
you bound to do?
I am bound to make his satisfaction by
restoring his good name as far as I can.
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What does the ninth
commandment forbid?
It warns against lust or carnal
concupiscence and impure thoughts and
desires.
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How can we purify our
hearts from sinful thoughts?
Purification of heart demands prayer, the
practice of charity, purity of intention and
of vision.
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What does the tenth
commandment demand?
If unfolds and completes the ninth
commandment which is concerned with
concupiscence of the flesh.
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What does the tenth
commandment forbid?
It forbids greed and desire to amass earthly
goods without limit. It also forbids the
desire to commit injustice by harming our
neighbor in his temporal goods. This
requires that envy be banished from the
human heart.
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What is envy?
It is the unhappiness at the sight of
another’s goods and the immoderate desire to
have them for oneself.
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