THE TEN

COMMANDMENTS
THE TWO GREATEST COMMANDMENT

- “Love does no wrong to a

neighbor; therefore love is the
fulfilling of the law.”
 1ST COMMANDMENT:
“I AM THE LORD THY GOD, THOU SHALL NOT
HAVE ANY STRANGE GODS BEFORE ME.”
• This commandment forbids idolatry, the worship of
false gods and goddesses.
• It excludes polytheism, the belief in many gods,
insisting instead on the belief in one God.
• The first commandment requires us to nourish and
protect our faith with prudence and vigilance and to
reject everything that is opposed to it.
• This commandment embrace FAITH, HOPE AND
LOVE.
• This commandment enjoins us to love God above
everything and all creatures for Him and because of
Him.
 SINS THAT NEGLECT THE FIRST
COMMANDMENT
• Incredulity (heresy and apostasy)
• Apostasy
• Despair
• Presumption
• Ingratitude (against Love)
• Superstition
• Idolatry
• Divination and magic
• Irreligion (Tempting God, Sacrilege, Simony)
• Atheism
 VENERATION AND ADORATION

• veneration is a high admiration and honoring of saints and Mary (Dulia and
Hyperdulia), while adoration is the highest form of worship and homage reserved
for God alone (Latria).
2ND COMMANDMENT:
“THOU SHALT NOT TAKE THE NAME OF THE
LORD YOUR GOD IN VAIN.”

• The faithful are required to honor the name of the Lord.

• It makes sense that if you are to love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and
strength, then you are naturally to respect the name of God with equal passion
and vigor.
• This commandment also calls everyone to respect the baptismal name of other
people.
 SINS THAT NEGLECT THE SECOND
COMMANDMENT
• FALSE OATHS- A false oath calls on God to be witness to a lie.
• Blasphemy- consists in uttering against God inwardly or
outwardly- i.e. words of hatred.
• Perjury- when a person makes promises under oath with no
intention of keeping it.
3RD COMMANDMENT:
“REMEMBER TO KEEP HOLY THE SABBATH
DAY.”
• This commandment recalls the holiness of the Sabbath.
• The precept of the Church specifies the Law of the Lord more precisely: “On Sundays and other
Holy days of obligation the faithful are bound to participate in the mass.”
• The scripture reveals in the Lord’s day a memorial of Israel’s liberation from bondage in Egypt.
• The Jews’ Sabbath begins on the sunset of Friday and lasts until sunset on Saturday.