CVF 4 (1st commandment)

• • The first 3 (#1,2,3) – Love of God

  • The other seven (#4,5,6,7,8,9,10) – Love of Neighbor
• The Decalogue: The 10 Commandments
• Decalogue – means “ten words”.
• 1. what is the first and the most important of the commandment?

  "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind."

  
  

  2. What is the second most important commandment?

  "...You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
• Saint Teresa of Avila the 16th century Spanish mystic,

  saw an angel rushing towards her,

  carrying a torch and a bucket of

  water. “Where are you going with

  that torch and bucket,” she asked;

  “what will you do with them?”

  “With the water,” the angel

  answered, “I will put out the fires

  of hell, and with the fire

  I will burn down the mansions

  of heaven; then we will see who

  really loves God.”

  I wonder if we could live our lives

  without the threat of punishment

  or the promise of reward.
• who said these quotes? Saint Teresa of Avila


  "God alone is enough."

  "It is love alone that gives worth to all things"
• The 3 Theological virtues are the foundation and the energizing

  force of the Christian’s moral activity and

  they give life to the human virtues.

  What are the 3 theological virtues?

  • Faith
  • Hope
  • Charity
• faith - believes in God
• 6sins against faith:

  -DELIBERATE DOUBT

  -UNBELIEF

  -HERESY

  -APOSTASY

  • Schism

  Arianism
• SCHISM -"schism is the refusal of

  submission to the Supreme

  Pontiff or of communion with the

  members of the Church subject

  to him".
• HERESY - the obstinate denial or

  obstinate doubt after the reception of

  baptism, of some truth which is to be

  believed by divine and Catholic faith.
• Arianism - Denial of the true divinity of

  Jesus Christ and that the title "Son of God"

  was a courtesy one.
• APOSTASY - the total rejection of

  Christianity by a baptized person

  who, having at one time professed

  the Christian faith, publicly rejects

  it.
• HOPE -trustingly awaits the blessed vision of God and his help
• 2 sins against hope:

  • Despair
  • Presumption
• • Presumption (the sin of presumption is the distortion or vice directly opposed to the theological virtue of hope. It is an unwarranted or habitual expectation that eternal life will be gained without God's assistance, or that salvation will be granted regardless of one's personal response to God's grace.
• Charity - love God above all things
• 5 sins against charity:

  -Indifference

  -Ingratitude

  -Lukewarmness

  -Sloth

  -Spiritual indolence

  -Hatred of God which is born

  of pride