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Which day of Holy Week best

resonates with you? Why?
What does it call and challenge
you?
 THE TEN
COMMANDMENTS
 MATTHEW 19:16-22 (THE RICH YOUNG MAN)
Narrator: Now someone approached him and said,
Rich young man: “Teacher, what good must I do to gain eternal
life?”
Narrator: He answered him,
Jesus: “Why do you ask me about the good? There is only One
who is good.* If you wish to enter into life, keep the
commandments.”
Narrator: He asked him,
Rich young man: “Which ones?”
Narrator: And Jesus replied,
Jesus: “You shall not kill; you shall not commit adultery; you
shall not steal; you shall not bear false witness; honor your
father and your mother’; and ‘you shall love your neighbor as
yourself.’
 MATTHEW 19:16-22 (THE RICH YOUNG MAN
Narrator: The young man said to him,
Rich young man: “All of these I have observed. What do I still
lack?”
Narrator: Jesus said to him,
Jesus: “If you wish to be perfect, go, sell what you have and
give to [the] poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then
come, follow me.”
Narrator: When the young man heard this statement, he went
away sad, for he had many possessions.
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• What is the message of the gospel? 
• What truth can we learn from the rich
young ruler who asked the Savior what
he should do to gain eternal life?
• Is following the commandments
enough to be good?
• “Teacher what must I do?” The
young man can either be any of
us, looking for answers on how
to attain eternal life. In Gospel,
Jesus’ call to the young man to
follow him, in the obedience of
a disciple and in the observance
of the commandment, is joined
to the call of poverty and
charity.
 DISCIPLESHIP AND THE
COMMANDMENT
 DECALOGUE
(“Ten Words”, from Greek
deka=Ten and logos=word)
God revealed these “Ten
Words” to his people on the
holy mountain. The Ten
Commandments are the
central summary of the basic
rules of human behavior in
the Old Testament.
Christian Morality is not Democracy.

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DISCIPLESHIP AND THE
COMMANDMENT
 LC 1: Explain the Ten
Commandments as a
guide in following Jesus
LEARNING Christ as a true disciple
COMPETENCIES:

LC 2: Examine one’s
conscience  to embody the
Ten Commandments in
everyday life
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 UNDERSTANDING EACH COMMANDMENTS

The Ten Commandments state what is required in the love of

God and love of neighbor. The first three concern love of
God, and the other seven love the neighbor.
1st COMMANDMENT: I am the LORD your God:
you shall not have strange gods before me.
The First Commandment ranks FIRST
among all the commandments, because it
is the most important commandment. 
Why?  Because it commands
REVERENCE and LOVE for God.  All
other commandments are based on
reverence and love for God.
The First Commandment commands:
• To offer to God alone the supreme worship that is due Him by acts of faith, hope and
love (charity).
• Faith obliges us to make efforts to find out what God has revealed, to believe firmly what
God has revealed and to profess our faith openly whenever necessary.
• Hope obliges us to trust firmly that God will give us eternal life and the means to obtain
it.
• Love (charity) obliges us to love God above all things because He is infinitely good, and
to love our neighbor as ourselves for the love of God .

The First Commandment forbids: 

• Sins which detract from the honor and worship of God, such as: 
• Superstitious practices:  divination, consulting fortune-tellers, attaching undue
importance to dreams and omens.  
• Sacrilege – Profane or superstitious use of blessed objects.
• Profanation of places or things consecrated to God. 
• Receiving the sacraments in a state of mortal sin.
2nd COMMANDMENT: You shall not take the
name of the LORD your God in vain.
The Second Commandment prescribes respect for
the Lord’s name.  Among all the words of
Revelation there is one which is unique:  the
revealed name of God.  God confides his name to
those who believe in him.  The gift of a name
belongs to the order of trust and intimacy.  “The
Lord’s name is holy.”  For this reason, man must
not abuse it.
The Second Commandment commands: 
• Us to always speak with reverence of God, of the
saints, and of holy things, and to be truthful in
taking oaths and faithful to them and to our vows.

The Second Commandment forbids: 

• All irreverence towards God’s most holy name, such as: 
Cursing, Profane swearing, Blasphemy 
• False, unlawful and unnecessary oaths. 
• Breaking or deferring lawful vows 
• Irreverence at Mass, and in churches and holy places even when
service is not going on.
3rd Commandment: Remember to keep holy the
Lord’s Day.
“Jesus rose from the dead “on the first day of the
week.” Because it is the “first day,” the day of
Christ’s Resurrection recalls the first creation. …
For Christians it has become the first of all days,
the first of all feasts, the Lord’s Day – Sunday.”
The Old Testament Sabbath (Saturday) has
been replaced by the Lord’s Day of the New
Testament (Sunday). Sunday is “a day of grace
and rest from work.”
The Third Commandment commands:
• Worship of God by assisting at Mass on Sundays,
the Lord’s Day, and on Holy Days.

The Third Commandment forbids:

• Missing Mass through one’s own fault on Sundays or Holy
Days.
• Doing unnecessary servile (physical) work on Sunday.
• Making others do unnecessary servile work on Sunday.
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4th Commandment: Honor your father and your
mother.
The Fourth Commandment is the first of the “love of
neighbor commandments”, immediately following
the 3 “love of God commandments.” No one,
except Adam and Eve, has ever come into the world
without a father and a mother. God has willed that
after Him, we should honor our parents to whom we
owe life and who have handed on to us the
knowledge of God.
The Fourth Commandment commands:
The Fourth Commandment commands us to respect and love our parents, to obey
them in all that is not sinful, and to help them when they are in need. We are also
obliged to respect and obey all lawful authority.

The Fourth Commandment forbids:

• For children:
All manner of anger and hatred against parents and other lawful authority.
Provoking [annoying or irritating] them to anger. Grieving them and insulting them
• For students:
Disrespect, disobedience, stubbornness, idleness.
• For parents:
Hating their children. Cursing them.
• For husbands and wives:
Putting obstacles to the fulfillment of religious duties.
Lack of gentleness and consideration in regard to each other’s faults.
• For all:
Contempt for the laws of our state, Church and country.
5th Commandment: You shall not kill.
God controls human life: “Human life is sacred
because from its beginning it involves the creative
action of God and it remains forever in a special
relationship with the Creator, who is its sole end.
God alone is the Lord of life from its beginning
until its end: no one can under any circumstance
claim for himself the right directly to destroy an
innocent human being.”
The Fifth Commandment commands:
• The Fifth Commandment commands us to take proper care of our own
spiritual and bodily wellbeing and that of our neighbor.
• The Fifth Commandment obliges us to show love for our neighbor by
respecting his person and not injuring him in any way.

The Fifth Commandment forbids:

• Unjust taking of human life – murder, suicide, abortion, euthanasia.
• Kidnapping, hostage taking, terrorism and torture.
• Violence in thought, word or act which may lead to unjust taking of
human life.
• Exposing life or limb to danger without reasonable cause [dangerous
pranks, doing something dangerous to yourself or others because
someone dared you to do it]
• Reckless driving.
6th Commandment: You shall not commit adultery
9th Commandment: You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife.

The Sixth and Ninth Commandments

work together. What the Sixth
Commandment forbids in action, the
Ninth Commandment forbids in thought
or desire.
The Sixth Commandment commands:
• The Sixth Commandment commands us to be pure and modest in our
behavior.
The Ninth Commandment commands:
• The Ninth Commandment commands us to be pure in thought and desire.

• Any other form of unmarried sexual action.

The Sixth Commandment forbids:

• All impurity and immodesty in words, looks and actions, whether alone or
with others.
• Offenses against marriage: Adultery.
• Offenses against chastity: Lust, pornography, and homosexuality.
• Any other form of unmarried sexual action.
The Ninth Commandment forbids:
• All thoughts and desires contrary to chastity.
8th Commandment: You shall not bear false witness
against your neighbor.

Christ said “I am the way and the truth

and the life.” He died on the Cross for
the truth. The Eighth Commandment
tells us to love truth and to show love
for others by respecting their reputation.
The Eighth Commandment commands:
• The Eighth Commandment commands us to speak the truth in all
things, but especially in what concerns the good name and honor
of others.

The Eighth Commandment forbids:

• Lies, Malicious, Boasting or bragging,
• Perjury [lying under oath] and false witness [lying in court].
• Rash judgment [believing something harmful to another’s character
without sufficient reason].
• Calumny or slander [injuring the good name of another by lying].
• Frauds [deceiving someone into giving up property or money], public and
private.
7th Commandment: You shall not steal
10th Commandment: You shall not covet your neighbor’s
goods.
The Seventh and Tenth Commandments
work together. The Tenth Commandment
makes it easy to keep the Seventh
Commandment by telling us not even to
desire the property of our neighbor.
The Seventh Commandment commands:
• The Seventh Commandment commands us to respect what belongs to others, to live up
to our business agreements, and to pay our just debts.
The Tenth Commandment commands:
• The Tenth Commandment commands us to detach ourselves from earthly riches

The Seventh Commandment forbids:

• Stealing
• Cheating in business or at play [or sports].
• Accepting bribes by public officials.
• Concealment of fraud [deceiving someone into giving up property or money], theft or
damage when one is duty bound to give information.
The Tenth Commandment forbids:
• All desire to take or to keep unjustly what belongs to others, and also forbids envy at
their success.
• Greed [desire to amass earthly goods] and avarice [passion for riches and the
accompanying power].
• Envy [sadness at the sight of another’s goods and the wrongful desire to have them for
oneself].
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CONSIDERING THE TEN COMMANDMENTS IN
OUR DAY
• The Ten Commandments is actually the result of a love
story between God and the Israelites. 
• And if we examine the Old Testament in regard to the
matter at hand we will find out that it is always through
a covenant that God agreed with His relationship with
humanity starting from
Adam, Abraham, Noah, David, and the eternal covenant
with His Son Jesus Christ. 
•  The fulfillment of the Ten Commandments is done
through Love. For Catholics, Love is what only matters.
 ST. THOMAS AQUINAS
 By universal consent, Thomas Aquinas is the
preeminent spokesman of the Catholic tradition of
reason and of divine revelation. He is one of the
great teachers of the medieval Catholic
Church, honored with the titles Doctor of the
Church and Angelic Doctor. One might expect
Thomas, as a man of the gospel, to be an ardent
defender of revealed truth. The Summa
Theologiae, his last
and, unfortunately, uncompleted work, deals with
the whole of Catholic theology.
Source:
https://www.franciscanmedia.org/saint-of-the-day/saint-thomas-aquinas
 ST. THOMAS AQUINAS, PRAY FOR US!
 We can look to Thomas Aquinas as a
towering example of Catholicism in
the sense of broadness, universality,
and inclusiveness. We should be
determined anew to exercise the
divine gift of reason in us, our power
to know, learn, and understand. At
the same time we should thank God
for the gift of his revelation,
especially in Jesus Christ.
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