TEN

TEN
COMMANDMENTS
COMMANDMENTS

GOD’ LAWS
GOD’ LAWS
OF LOVE
OF LOVE

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 FIRST
FIRST
COMMANDMENT
COMMANDMENT

“You Shall Worship The

Lord Your God and Him
Only Shall You Serve”
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 CHAPTER ONE
YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR
GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND
WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH
ALL YOUR MIND

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SINS AGAINST 1ST COMMANDMENT

Superstition

Is the deviation of religious feeling and of

the practices this feeling imposes. It can
even affect the worship we offer the true
God
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SINS AGAINST 1ST COMMANDMENT

IDOLATRY

Not only refers to false pagan worship. It

remains a constant temptation to faith.
Idolatry consists in divinizing what is not
God.

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SINS AGAINST 1ST COMMANDMENT

Divination

Placing our trust for the future in things

such as horoscopes, astrology, palm
reading, omens and using clairvoyants
rather than God’s providence

07/29/20 CCC 2115 7

SINS AGAINST 1ST COMMANDMENT

Divination
All forms of divination are to be rejected:

Horoscopes Astrology Palm reading

Interpretation of omens, and lots

Clairvoyance Recourse to mediums

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SINS AGAINST 1ST COMMANDMENT

Magic & Sorcery

One attempts to tame occult powers, so

as to place them at one’s service and
have a supernatural power over others

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SINS AGAINST 1ST COMMANDMENT

Spiritualism

Often implies divination or magical

practices.

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SINS AGAINST 1ST COMMANDMENT

Irreligion

God’s first commandment condemns the

main sins of irreligion: tempting God, in
words or deeds, sacrilege, and simony.
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SINS AGAINST 1ST COMMANDMENT

Tempting God

Consist in putting his goodness and almighty

power to the test by word or deed.

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SINS AGAINST 1ST COMMANDMENT

Sacrilege

Consists in profaning or treating

unworthily the sacraments, liturgical
actions, as well as persons, things, or
places consecrated to God.

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SINS AGAINST 1ST COMMANDMENT

Sacrilege

Is a grave sin especially when committed

against the Eucharist, for in this
sacrament the true Body and Blood of
Christ is made substantially present for us.

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 FORBIDS

Simony

Is defined as the buying or selling of

spiritual things.

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 FORBIDS
Atheism

The denial in theory and/or practice that

God exists. Atheism is a sin against the
virtue of religion required by the first
commandment of the law.
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 FORBIDS

Apostasy

The total denial of the Christian

faith.

07/29/20 CCC2089 17
 SECOND
SECOND
COMMANDMENT
COMMANDMENT

You Shall Not Take The

Name Of The Lord Your
God In Vain.
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 COMMANDS
Reverence In
Speaking about God

Holy things

Keeping Vows
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 FORBIDS

Blasphemy False Oaths

Cursing Perjury

Swearing in God’s Name

when
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 FORBIDS
False Oaths

Oaths which misuse God's name, show

lack of respect for the Lord. This also
forbids magical use of the divine name.

07/29/20 CCC 2149 21

 FORBIDS
Speaking Disrespectfully Of Holy
Things

False Oaths And Breaking

Of Vows.

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 THIRD
THIRD
COMMANDMENT
COMMANDMENT

Remember To Keep Holy The

Sabbath Day

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2168 - 2188
 COMMANDS

We must go to Church on
Sundays and holy days.

Catholics must participate in

the Eucharistic Liturgy
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 FORBIDS

We should abstain from all

unnecessary work

Missing church (Mass) through

one’s fault
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 Catholics over the age of reason
who deliberately choose not to
attend Mass on a Sunday or
Holy Day commit a mortal sin.

If one is sick or it is impossible

to attend Mass, one is excused
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 FOURTH
FOURTH
COMMANDMENT
COMMANDMENT

Honor Your Father And

Mother

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 COMMANDS

Love Respect

Children obey their parents in

all things except sin.
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 COMMANDS
Help their parents in their old
age or if they are sick/helpless
Pray for them

Children must obey others in

authority while under their care
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 COMMANDS

Parents obligations to children

Parents must care for the spiritual

and temporal welfare of their
children
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 COMMANDS
Parents must teach their children
Christian virtues by word and
example.

Parents must teach their children

about God and the Gospels
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 FORBIDS

Hatred of parents and superiors

Disrespect, disobedience of parents

and those in authority while under
their care
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 FIFTH
FIFTH
COMMANDMENT
COMMANDMENT

You shall not kill

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 COMMANDS

Safeguarding one’s health and

life

Safeguarding the bodily welfare

of others

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 COMMANDS

Controlling our anger

Unjust killing

Suicide

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 FORBIDS
Abortion
Euthanasia

Artificial Contraception

Sterilization
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 FORBIDS

Seeking revenge and

holding
grudges
Leading others into sin by our
bad example (scandal)
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 FORBIDS
Sterilization
Fighting

Endangering one’s life or limb

or that of others
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 SIXTH
SIXTH
COMMANDMENT
COMMANDMENT

Thou shall not commit

adultery

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 COMMANDS

Respect of our sexual identity

We are to practice the virtue

of chastity

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 FORBIDS
Adultery

Marital infidelity, or sexual relations

between two partners, at least one of
whom is married to another party.

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 FORBIDS
Fornication

Sexual intercourse between an

unmarried man and unmarried
women.

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 FORBIDS

Masturbation

The deliberate stimulation of the genital

organs in order to derive sexual pleasure

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 FORBIDS
Contraception

The use of mechanical, chemical, or medical

Procedures to prevent conception from taking
Place as a result of sexual intercourse;
Contraception offends against the openness to
Procreation required of marriage and also the
Inner truth of conjugal love.
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 FORBIDS

Pornography Prostitution
Rape Incest
Polygamy

Homosexual Acts
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 DOES NOT FORBID

Couples to regulate births

through Natural Family
Planning

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 Natural Family Planning

Differs from contraception

because couples do nothing to
interfere with their fertility.
Where as those who use
contraception do interfere with
conception
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 SEVENTH
SEVENTH
COMMANDMENT
COMMANDMENT

Thou Shall Not Steal

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 COMMANDS

That the goods of creation are

for all people in common
All have the right to own private
property
We respect another’s
property
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 COMMANDS
Reparation for property we
steal

We must respect everything that

God has created
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 FORBIDS
Stealing Fraud
Deliberately damaging another’s
property
Not paying one’s just debts or
obligations
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 FORBIDS
Failure to fulfill a promise/contract
Not returning found or borrowed
property
Not giving a just days work to an
employer
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 FORBIDS

Failure to pay a just wage for work

Not helping the poor or those in

need

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 FORBIDS

Excessive Gambling

Reducing people to slaves for mere

profit

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 EIGHTH
EIGHTH
COMMANDMENT
COMMANDMENT

Thou Shall Not Bear False

Witness Against Thy
Neighbor
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 COMMANDS
COMMANDS

That we speak the truth

That we keep secrets we have
promised to keep

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 FORBIDS

Lying Perjury

Judging other’s without sufficient

evidence

Gossiping about
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 FORBIDS
Lying to destroy another’s
reputation

Praising sinful acts of another

Self praise to the point lying

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 NINTH
NINTH
COMMANDMENT
COMMANDMENT

Thou Shall Not Covet Thy

Neighbors Wife

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 COMMANDS
COMMANDS

To be pure of heart

Not to take pleasure in impure

thoughts or desires
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 COMMANDS
COMMANDS

That we dress and act in modesty

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 FORBIDS
Immodesty

Speaking or dressing in suggestive

manner that can lead others to sin
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 TENTH
TENTH
COMMANDMENT
COMMANDMENT

Thou Shall Not Covet Thy

Neighbors Goods

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 COMMANDS
COMMANDS

That we put God above all earthly

goods
We not be envious of another’s
goods
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 FORBIDS
An immoderate desire to acquire
the goods of another

Wishing harm on another person

because of our envy
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