CVF 4 (2nd, & 3rd commandment)

• Making the Sign of the Cross irreverently

  is calling the name of God in vain.
• The 2nd Commandment becomes very applicable, both in:

  • regard to lack of reverence of God’s name,
  • and lack of respect for their fellow human persons.
• In reverence to God: oaths and vows are made in

  solemn occasions like baptisms, marriages, or

  priestly ordinations.
• Respect of others: when religion is misused,

  either in frightening people with threats of

  eternal punishment, or enticing them with calls

  for superficial, emotionally-laden conversions.
• sins against/forbidden the 2nd commandment:

  • To call the name of God
  • to justify a crime
  • Blasphemy
  • Curses
  • Unfaithfulness to
  • promises made in the
  • Name of God
• To fulfill the 2nd commandment:

  •Every time we repeat the prophet Isaiah’s

  text in the Eucharistic acclamation:

  “Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of power and

  might. Heaven and earth are full of your

  glory”
• the 2nd commandment enjoins - joy-filled praise of the psalmist; "praise your servants of the Lord, praise the name of the lord. Blessed be the name of the Lord both now and forever. From the rising and the setting of the sun is the name of the Lord to be praised.
• The reason that Sabbath has been changed to Sunday is the day of the Resurrection of Christ as the “first day of the week”
• The 1st reason: God rested on the seventh day

  The 2nd reason: the great liberation from slavery in Egypt
• • Rest is not an absence of work; more than the

  withdrawal from labor and exertion, strain or

  activity of any kind BUT the creation of

  Tranquility, serenity, peace, and repose
• • For remember that you were once slaves in Egypt...that is why the Lord, your God, has commanded you to observe the Sabbath