I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD.
You shall worship the
Lord Your God and Him only shall you serve.
You shall not take the name of the Lord
your God in vain.
Remember to keep Holy the
Sabbath Day.
Honor your Father and your Mother.
You shall NOT KILL.
You shall NOT commit ADULTERY.
You shall NOT STEAL.
You shall NOT bear FALSE WITNESS.
You shall NOT COVET your
neighbor’s wife.
You shall NOT COVET your
neighbor’s goods.
“You shall have no other gods before me”
The first commandment requires wholehearted love of
God exercised through the theological virtues of faith,
hope, and love.
MONOTHEISM = One God
God exist and is Holy. He is
almighty, merciful, and infinitely
beneficent.
Love towards God is expressed
in adoration, prayer, sacrifice,
and fidelity to one’s promises
and vows
Adoration as the first act of the virtue of religion.
The acts of faith, hope, and charity enjoined by the first
commandment are accomplished in prayer. It is an
indispensable condition for being able to obey God’s
commandments.
It is right to offer sacrifice to God as a sign of adoration
and gratitude, supplication and communion.
In many circumstances, the Christian is called to make
promises to God. Baptism and Confirmation, Matrimony
and Holy Orders always entail promises.
A vow is a deliberate and free promise made to
God concerning a possible and better good which
must be fulfilled by reason of the virtue of religion.
“forbids honoring gods other than the one Lord who has revealed
himself to His people”
IDOLATRY – worshipping idols and images as God.
Other individuals, pleasures, power, and money
The 1st commandment condemns polytheism.
DIVINATION – tries to discover what is hidden.
horoscopes, astrology, palm reading, playing Ouija
boards, interpretation of omens and lots, the
phenomenon of clairvoyance.
AGNOSTICISM – one who does not have a
definite belief whether God exist or not.
DESPAIR SUPERSTITION
Magic – belief in supernatural power that come
from a source other than God.
Believing in devices or spell books – believes to
control what only God can control.
IRRELIGION
TEMPTING GOD – consists in putting His goodness
and almighty power to the test by word or deed.
SACRILEGE – an act of treating a holy place,
sacraments, and other liturgical actions without
proper respect.
SIMONY – buying or selling of spiritual things.
ATHEISM – one does not all perceive, or explicitly reject,
this intimate and vital bond of man to God.
SECULAR HUMANISM – belief that defies humanity and
human potential to the exclusion of any belief in or
reliance on God.
FREUDIANISM – claims belief in God is mere wishful
thinking.
MATERIALISM – belief that the physical, material world
is the only reality, and that spiritual existence, values
and faith are illusions.
VOLUNTARY DOUBT – disregards or refuses what
God has revealed and Church proposes for
belief.
INVOLUNTARY DOUBT – hesitation in believing,
difficulty in overcoming objections connected
with faith or anxiety aroused by its obscurity. It
can sometimes lead to spiritual blindness.
INCREDULITY – neglect of revealed truth.
HERESY - belief or opinion that does not agree with
the official belief of a particular religion.
APOSTASY – abandonment of a previous loyalty.
SCHISM – refusal of communion with the members
of the Church subject to him.
DESPAIR – man ceases to hope for his personal
salvation from God.
PRESUMPTION
Man presumes upon his own capacities.
Man hoping to obtain His forgiveness without
conversion and glory without merit.
INDIFFERENCE – neglects or refuses to reflect on
divine charity.
INGRATITUDE – fails or refuses to acknowledge
divine charity and to return him love for love.
LUKEWARMNESS – hesitation or negligence in
responding to divine love.
ACEDIA or SPIRITUAL SLOTH – to refuse the joy
that comes from God.
HATRED OF GOD which comes from pride.
Man accepts God and worships Him.
Man must accept His words and have complete
faith in Him and acknowledge His authority.
“Obedience of Faith”
Requires us to nourish and protect our faith with prudence
and vigilance, and to reject everything that is opposed to
it.
Man must hope that God will give him the capacity to love
Him in return and to act in conformity with the
commandments of charity.
Man to respond with sincere love to divine charity.
Love God above everything and all creatures for Him and
because of Him.
“Obey them and eternal happiness is
yours. Disobey them and suffer the
consequences.”
Praying to our Blessed Mother is not a form of
idolatry for we DO NOT WORSHIP or ADORE her as
we do to the LORD OUR GOD.
The first commandment prohibits worshipping of
images rather than against making them. It is not the
carving of statues that is prohibited, but rather idols.
In the Old Testament, God ordained or permitted
the making of images that pointed symbolically
toward salvation by the incarnate Word, so it was
with the following:
1. bronze serpent [Numbers 21:8-9]
2. the Ark of the Covenant[Exodus 37:7]
3. Cherubim [Exodus 25:18-20]
“It is when people begin to adore a statue as a
god that the Lord our God becomes angry”
The payment for the Sacraments such as
Pamisa or Wedding is not a form of Simony.
In the Catholic Church, CANON LAW is the
system of laws and legal principles made and
enforced by the Church’s competent authorities to
regulate its external organization and government
and to order and direct the activities of Catholics
toward mission of the Church.
The minister should ask nothing for the
administration of the sacraments beyond the offerings
defined by the competent authority, always being
careful that the needy are not deprived of the help of
the sacraments because of their poverty." The
competent authority determines these "offerings" in
accordance with the principle that the Christian
people ought to contribute to the support of the
Church's ministers. "The laborer deserves his food."
Despi, Mary Monique
Igaran, Sophia Rose
Rivera, Katrina Mae
Tabaniera, France April
