Almighty God,

From the earth, You created us, and in

Your Image You made us. Limited days of
Opening Prayer
life You give us and make us return to
earth again.
You endow us with great strength and
with power over all things on earth. You
form our tongues and eyes and ears and
impart to us an understanding heart.
With wisdom and knowledge You fill us;
good and evil You show us.
You look with favor upon our hearts and
show us Your glorious works, that we may
describe the wonders of Your deeds and
praise Your Holy name.
You have given us knowledge a law of life
as our inheritance. An everlasting
covenant You have made with us Your
commandments You revealed to us.
Our ways are always known to You,
we cannot hide them from Your eyes.
Help us Lord to be Your life and light!
Amen!!!
 Lesson Objectives
 Recall the 10 Commandments and the
double commandment of love.
 To understand the values and moral
deviations by each commandment.
 To put into practice each value upheld by
the commandments
 -The commandments are not dictatorial
decrees from an authoritarian God who
demands blind obedience. Rather the
commandments remind us of God’s
continuing love, guidance, and christian
instruction.
They are expressions of divine providence.
What God commands to be
done, His grace makes possible
( CCC 2082)
Without basic laws that apply to all people we will
not be free.
For Christians following the ten commandments
must take on a new perspective, that is a deep
personal faith and loyalty to Christ, who says,
”You are my friends if you do what I command
you.” (Jn. 15:14, CCC 2074)
 Even the Ten Commandments had been
given by God on Mt.Sinai about 4,000 years
before Christ, Jesus did not replace them.
”Do not think that I have come to abolish the law
or the prophets, I have come not to abolish but
to fulfill .” (Mt. 5:17-19)
The Ten Commandments must be appreciated in
relation to the “law of love”. These are the love of
God (Commandments 1-3) and the love of
neighbor (Commandments 4-10)
We become God’s light and
life by following the 10 Commandments and
God’s law of love.
Love God: The First Three Commandments
First Commandment: I, the Lord, am your God.
You shall not have other gods besides me.
• Make God the top priority in our Violations
• Superstition
lives by practicing the theological • Heresy
virtues • Idolatry
• Apostasy
• Worship God and share our • Divination
• Presumption
faith with others
• Despair
• Practice the virtue of religion • Ingratitude • Irreligion
• Prayer • Spiritual • Sacrilege
laziness • Simony
• Atheism
 Moral Deviations Against 1st
Commandment
 Superstition- is the deviation of religious feeling and of the practices
this feeling imposes (CCC 2111) ex.horoscope, fortune-telling and
charms
 Idolatry- It condemns polytheism and consist also in putting anything,
honoring and receiving it more than God. (CCC 2112-2113)
 Tempting God- putting His goodness and Almighty power to test by
word or deed.
 Sacrilege- it consist in profaning or treating unworthily the sacrament,
liturgical actions as well as person, things or places consecrated to
God.
 Atheism/Agnosticism- a false conception of human autonomy,
exaggerated to the point of refusing any dependence on God. (CCC
2124)
 1 Commandment (Values)
st

 We recognize the one God as the sole

transcendent center of all reality. All
other things are important only
insofar as they draw us closer to God.
 Ten Commandments
Love God: The First Three Commandments
Second Commandment: You shall not take the
name of the Lord, your God, in vain.
• Honor God’s name through praise, Violations
reverence, and adoration • Perjury
• Our names are also holy • Blasphemy
• Forbids the wrong use of God’s name • Swearing an oath with
an intention to break it
or the names of Jesus, Mary, or any
saint • Use of swearing,
cursing, vulgar language
• Keep promises and vows and always
be true to our word
 Moral Deviations Against 2nd
Commandment
 Blasphemy- it directly opposes the 2nd
commandment and it consists in uttering
words against God.(CCC 2148)
 False Oaths- taking an oath or swearing is to
take God as witness to what one affirms.
(CCC 21500
 Breaking Promises- made to others in God’s
name engage the divine honor, fidelity and
authority.
 2 Commandment (Values)
nd

 We revere God’s transcendent

holiness and all things associated
with Him.
 Chapter 9 Christian Moral Life:
The Beatitudes and Ten Commandments
Love God: The First Three Commandments
Third Commandment: Remember to keep holy
the Sabbath day.
• The purpose is to praise God for his Violation
works of creation and to thank him • Willfully missing Mass
• God gives this commandment to all people
for them to have a day of rest and recreation
• We acknowledge the one we are totally dependent on
• Jesus brought new meaning to the Sabbath observance – we
worship, praise, and thank God for the gift of the Son
• Catholics are obliged to go to Mass on Sundays and
Holy Days of Obligation
 The word “Sabbath” actually means to
cease from work and labor of rest, a day
devoted to God. This rest is used for
recreating ourselves physically, mentally
and spiritually.
  I knelt to pray but not for long
 I had too much to do;
 Must hurry off and get to work;
 For bills would soon be due

 And so I said a hurried prayer

 Jumped up from off my knees
 My Christian duty now is done
 My soul could be at ease.
 All through the day, I had no time
 To speak a word of cheer;
 No time to speak of Christ to friends
 They’d laugh at me, I feared.
 No time, no time too much to do;
 That was my constant cry;
 No time to give to those in need
 At last it was time to die.
 And when before the Lord I came,
 I stood with downcast eyes;
 Within His hands He held a book
 It was the Book of Life
 He looked into the book and said,
 “Your name I cannot find;
 I once was going to write it down
 But never found the time.”
 3 Commandment (Values)
rd

 As persons created by God, we value

the indispensable role of worship.
Love Your Neighbor: 4th – 10th Commandments
Fourth Commandment: Honor your father and
your mother.
• Family is the domestic Church Violation
• Parents should: respect children, • Societal laws that conflict
with God’s will or God’s law
educate them in the Catholic faith,
loving home, unconditional love
• Behaviors from children: thankfulness, respecting, obey, meeting
the physical and spiritual needs of aged parents, treat siblings with
respect and love
• Respect and obedience is due to all authority figures.
 4 Commandment (Values)
th

 We see the human family as a

community and sacrament of God’s
love. We recognize the duties and
roles of parents and children to
another.
 Sirach 3:2-3

 “ For the Lord sets a father in honor over

his children; a mother’s authority she
confirms over her children.
 He who honors his father atones for sins;
 He stores up riches who reveres his
mother.”
Love Your Neighbor: 4th – 10th Commandments
Fifth Commandment: You shall not kill.
• Human life is sacred from the Violations
first moment of conception until • Direct abortion
natural death • Intentional euthanasia
• We show respect for God’s gift • Suicide
of life by eating healthy, getting • Scandal
proper exercise and rest, avoiding
harmful substances, etc. • Immoral medical procedures
• Any direct and intentional killing of a human being is a violation
• Killing in self-defense is morally permissible as a last resort
 Moral deviations/offenses
against 5th Commandment
 Murder- forbids direct and intentional
killing as gravely sinful.
 Euthanasia- it means putting an end to the
lives of handicapped, sick or dying
persons.
 Scandal- an attitude or behavior which
leads another to do evil.
 Abusing one’s health- avoid every kind of
excess.
 War-intentional destruction of human life.
 5 Commandment
th

 We must cherish and uphold God’s

gift of Human life.
Love Your Neighbor: 4th – 10th Commandments
Sixth and Ninth Commandments: You shall not commit
adultery. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife.
Violations
• God gave us the gift of sexuality so that • Lus
married couples can share their love and • Fornication
cooperate with God in bringing forth new life • Pornography
• Exercise the virtues of chastity, purity, • Prostitution
and modesty • Rape
• Married couples should be faithful to • Homosexual activity
each other • Adultery
• Chastity requires lifelong self-control
 Moral Deviations
 Adultery-it refers to marital infidelity
 Polygamy- it is having many husbands or
many wives.
 Incest- it practices intimate relations
between relatives or in-laws, any sexual
abuse perpetrated by adults on children or
adolescents entrusted to their care.
 Free Union/Live in- out of wedlock
 6th and 9th
Commandments(Values)
 We must respect the gift of our
human sexuality and the sacredness
of marriage
 Ten Commandments
Love Your Neighbor: 4th – 10th Commandments
Seventh and Tenth Commandments: You shall not steal. You
shall not covet anything that belongs to your neighbor.

• God created the goods of creation for everyone Violations

• Do not become too attached to belongings • Greed
• Avarice
• Justice calls us to respect the property of others
and to share our things • Envy
•Jesus teaches that poverty of spirit is the way to combat
sinful attitudes
• Keep promises and do not break contracts
Moral Deviations Against 7th and
10th Commandments
 Consumerism- is another clear example of
“social sin”. It becomes a vice by effecting
certain typical changes:
 We become enslaved by our possessions and
obsessed with getting more;
 Thus closing ourselves off to our own spiritual
needs;
 And to the poverty and unjust exploitation of
others.
Love Your Neighbor: 7th – 10th Commandments

Types of justice
Legal justice/Contributive
concerns our duties as citizens and
what we owe the government
Social justice
applies the teachings of Christ and
the Church to political, economic,
and social orders

Commutative justice Distributive justice

regulates relations between deals with the obligations the
individuals community has to its citizens
 7 and 10 Commandments
th th

 We must respect the property of all

persons and foster justice for all.
 Ten Commandments

Eighth Commandment: You shall not bear false witness against your
neighbor.

• Teaches that truth-telling is a matter of Violations

justice • Lying
• We respect other people, their • False witness
reputations, their right to privacy • Perjury
• Governments and entertainment • Rash judgment
industries are to use the media • Detraction
responsibly and not for propaganda or • Calumny
to promote immoral behavior
 Moral Deviations against 8th
Commandment
 Lying-is the common and direct offense against the
truth.
 False Witness/Perjury-statement contrary to the
truth, in court when under oath
 Slander-false and insulting statement
 Hypocrisy-which is a pretense of virtue
 Boasting or bragging-which exaggeration of one’s
qualities or actions to gain favor with others.
 Calumny-remarks contrary to the truth/harms the
reputation of others
 8 Commandment (Values)
th

 We must value that right of all

persons to a good name and uphold
the value of honesty in all our
interpersonal relations.
 Graded recitation
 1. Explain the importance or values of the
commandments( choose one)
 2. Give two examples of moral deviations
 (choose one)
 3. Which of the Ten Commandments do
you find easy or difficult to practice in your
daily life? Why?
 Closing Song

From the Sister Act

Movie:
 I will Follow You!