1. The First Commandments
Meaning:
This commandment is more than an affirmation that there is one
God.
Prohibitions:
Idolatry - is the substitution of someone or something else for God.
- Power, pleasure, race, & ancestors.
Superstition - refers to the deviation of religious feeling and of the practices
this feeling imposes.
Divination – is an act of taking recourse to Satan or demons, conjuring up the
dead or other practices falsely supposed to ‘unveil’ the future.
Magic or Sorcery – is an act “ by which one attempts to tame occult
powers, so as to place them at one’s service and have
supernatural power.
Tempting God – consist in putting His goodness and almighty power to test
by word or deed.
Simony – is understood as “the buying or selling of spiritual things.
Sacrilege – consist in profaning of treating unworthy of the sacraments and
other liturgical actions, as well as persons, thing or place
consecrated to God.
Atheism- is the rejection or denial of the existence of God.
Agnosticism- postulates the existence of a transcendent being which is
incapable or revealing itself, and about with nothing can be
said.
Graven Images- refer to that divine injunction that prohibits every
representation or God by the hand.
Values:
Making God the goal of our life
Refusing to substitute things such as sex, money, power or prestige for our true purpose
in life.
2. The Second Commandments
Meaning:
To give someone a name that is to say something about the person.
Prohibitions:
Blasphemy - uttering against God
-inwardly or outwardly
- words of hatred
Cursing - is calling down of evil on person, place or thing.
Profanity – is speaking of God or sacred persons and things irreverent, s in a fit
of temper or in a moment of impatience or joking, or out of habit.
False Oaths – calls on God to be witness to a lie.
Perjury – is making “a promise under oath with no intention of keeping it, or when
after promising on oath he does not keep it.
Values:
Respecting God’s name
Care in the way we worship and humility in prayer
Appreciating the sacredness of God and things associated with him
4. The third commandment marks one day of each week as special in the relationship
which exists between God and his people.
Prohibitions:
We should avoid unnecessary work that requires primarily physical, rather than
mental labor. Such work will hinder your obligation on Sunday. Only work in which the mind has
greater share or which is done for recreation is permitted. Employers who force their employees
to do unnecessary servile work on Sunday are responsible for the violation of the Third
Commandment.
Values:
Properly worshipping God
Giving centrality to the day of the Lord, the day of Jesus’ resurrection
Appreciation for the fact that we approach God in community; our salvation is
realized with others
The Fourth Commandment
Meaning:
The focus of this commandment is that we are born into society of persons.
We cannot develop as full human persons outside of human society, both the smaller
society of our own family and the large society of the country or nation to which our
family belongs.
Prohibitions:
5. Disrespect - includes all irreverence and stubbornness against lawful
authority.
Unkindness - is contrary to the love we owe our parents, like: despising them,
curses them, hates them or makes them angry.
Disobedience - is refusing or neglecting to do what is commanded, or by
doing what is forbidden.
Neglect to assist our parents in their spiritual and temporal
needs – inevitably, sending the aged to the home of the aged is not morally
advisable.
Values:
Parents should reflect God’s love by respecting, caring for and loving their
children
Children respecting their parents and proper authority through obedience,
respect and courtesy
Family members, bother and sisters as a community of love
The Fifth Commandment
Meaning:
We are made in the image and likeness of God and loved by God. Everyone has
a right to life and to bodily integrity, but society also has a right to protect itself.
Prohibitions:
Murder – refers to voluntary and unjust killing of a being.
*Direct and intentional killing – is gravely sinful.
*Indirect or Unintentional killing – is not morally imputable.
*Self-defense – refers to actions taken by a person to prevent another
person from causing harm to one’s self, one’s property or one’s home.
6. Abortion – is the removal of an embryo or fetus from the uterus in order to
natural accidental causes end a pregnancy.
*Natural Abortion – refers to the expulsion of the fetus through
*Direct or Intentional Abortion – refers to the deliberately induced
expulsion of a living fetus before it has become viable.
*Therapeutic Abortion – is the deliberately induced expulsion of a
fetus in order to save the mother from danger of death brought on
by pregnancy
*Eugenic Abortion – is recommended in cases where certain defects
are discovered in the developing fetus.
* Indirect Abortion – in this case, the removal of the fetus occurs as a
secondary effect of a legitimate or licit action.
Euthanasia – is the practice of ending a life so as to release an individual from
an incurable disease or intolerable suffering, also called mercy killing”
Suicide – is the act of deliberately killing of yourself.
Death Penalty or Capital Punishment – is the punishment of death
for committing.
* Retribution – is the vindication of the victim.
* Reform – implies the rehabilitation of the criminal.
* Deterrence – is discouraging others from committing the same crime
Artificial Contraception – is the voluntary prevention of life by use of
artificial means in which the generative cells are prevented from uniting during
the sexual act.
War – forbids the international destruction of human life because of the evils
and injustices that accompany all war.
Artificial Insemination – is the process in which male spermatozoa are
collected and introduce artificial into the female genital tract for the purpose of
fertilization.
Test tube Babies or In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) – is an assisted
reproductive technology (ART) in which one or more eggs is fertilized outside a
female’s body.
Cloning – is form of non- sexual or asexual reproduction in which offspring are
genetically identical to each other and to the parent that rise to them.
Scandal – is an attitude or behavior that leads others to do evil.
Particular offenses against life: vices of alcohol and drug abuse, and to
the less intensive degree, smoking.
Violations against the human integrity and dignity: kidnapping
and hostage taking, terrorism, torture, amputations, mutilation, sterilization,
subhuman living condition.
Anger – is a desire for revenge.
7. Hatred – is a habitual anger, a strong dislike of or ill-will anyone.
Revenge – is the desire to inflict unjust punishment on someone with injured,
from a motive of anger.
Values:
respect for God’s greatest gift, life
includes: respect for our bodies, avoiding harmful substances, getting rest
and relaxation
includes: respect for the “least of these” – the unborn, the old, the sick
and dying
The Six Commandment
Meaning:
Sex between a married person and someone who is not that person’s wife/husband
8. Prohibitions:
Lust – is a desire for or in ordinate enjoyment of sexual pleasure.
Masturbation – is the deliberate stimulation of the genital organs in order to
derive sexual pleasure.
Fornication – is carnal union between an unmarried man and un married
woman.
Pornography – consist in removing real or stimulated sexual acts from the
intimacy of the partners, in order to display them deliberately to third parties.
Prostitution – does injury to the dignity of the person who engages in it,
reducing person to an instrument of sexual pleasure.
Rape – is forcible violation of the sexual intimacy of another person.
Homosexuality – refers to relations between men or between women who
experience an exclusive or predominant sexual attraction toward persons of the
same sex.
The Seventh Commandments
Meaning:
The unjust taking or with holding from another what rightfully belongs to him,
against his will.
One who cooperates willfully in such alt is also guilty of sin
Is a collective term for numerous kinds of sins
9. Prohibitions:
Theft – usurping another’s property against the reasonable will of the owner.
Robbery – an open and forcible taking another person’s property.
Fraud or cheating – is taking another’s property by means of ticker or
deceit.
Usury – exacting for a loan of money an interest above the legal and reasonable
rate; the usurer takes advantages of another’s nee fails both in justice and
charity
Willful Damage of Another’s Goods – such as sabotage, arson,
culpable neglect of employer’s valuable property, and even such school boy’s
pranks as breathing a neighbors force or window.
Graft and corruption – the use dishonest or questionable means for
private gain.
The Ninth Commandments
Meaning:
"Every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of
judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be
condemned."
Prohibitions:
10. Impure Touching – is the touching to arouse the sexual passion outside of
proper use of sex.
Petting and Necking – are always serious sin’s where their purpose is to
arouse passion.
Kissing – kissing for the purpose of arousing sexual passion is a mortal sin.
Indecent Dancing – arouses sexual while decent is good recreation and is
not sinful.
Indecent Dress Immodesty – wearing to indecent dress even is not a
mortal sin at first, in=t can easily become one.
Sexual Harassment – is harassment or unwelcome of a sexual nature.
Sex on Phone/Sex on Text – is a type of virtual sex that refers to sexually
explicit conservation between two or more persons via telephone.
The Tenth Commandments
11. Meaning:
Deals w/ the disordered desire of the heart – covetousness from w/c stealing and
exploitation.
Prohibitions:
Envy – is a sorrow or sadness
Covetousness – is a excessive desire for material goods.
Avarice – is an in ordinate attachment to these goods.
Cheating – is depriving another of his property by crafty means.
Plagiarism – is the unauthorized use or close imitation.
Gambling – in itself, it is not a sin, however excessive gambling can be mortal
sin.
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