CVF 4 (4th commandment

• The 4th Commandment: Honor your father and your mother

  What does this commandment require?

  It commands us to honor

  and respect our parents

  and those whom God,

  for our good has vested

  with his authority.
• Duties of children toward their parents:

  • Children owe respect (filial piety),
  • Gratitude,
  • Docility and obedience to their parents
  • Adult children should give their parents material and moral support in situations of loneliness, distress, sickness, or old age.
• Respect God’s Gift: Life
• Human life must be respected because it is sacred.
• • From its beginning human life involves the

  creative action of God and it remains forever in

  a special relationship with the Creator, who is

  its sole end. It is not lawful for anyone directly

  to destroy an innocent human being.
• • In choosing to legitimately defend

  oneself, one s respecting the right to life

  (either one’s own right to life or that of

  another) and not choosing to kill.

  • Legitimate defense is also a grave duty,

  provided only that disproportionate force

  is not used.
• What is it permitted to use military force?

  When the ff conditions are simultaneously present:

  • The suffering inflicted by the aggressor must

  be lasting, grave and certain;

  • All other peaceful means must have been

  shown to be ineffective;

  • There are well-founded prospects of success;
  • The use of arms esp. the modern weapons for

  mass destruction must not produce evils graver
• What is forbidden by the 5th commandment?

  • Direct and intentional murder
  • Direct abortion
  • Direct euthanasia
  • Suicide and voluntary cooperation in it;
• Why must society protect every embryo?

  The inalienable right to life of every human

  individual from the first moment of

  conception is a constitutive element of civil

  society and its legislation. When the State does

  not place its power at the service of the rights

  of all and in particular of the more

  vulnerable, including unborn children, the

  very foundation of a State based on law are

  undermined.
• The transplant of organs is morally

  acceptable with the consent of the donor

  and without excessive risks to him or

  her. Before allowing the noble act of

  organ donation after death, one must

  verify that the donor is truly dead.
• What practices are contrary to respect for the bodily

  integrity of the human person?

  Kidnapping and hostage taking

  Terrorism

  Torture

  Violence

  Direct sterilization
• Amputations and mutilations of a person

  are morally permissible only

  for strictly therapeutic medical reasons
• SEXUALITY signifies an essential dimension of the

  whole person by which she/he enters into

  relationship with others.

  It thus touches every aspect of personal life, and

  has to be developed by all men and women just as

  life itself must be.
• SEXUALITY is a fundamental component of

  personality, one of its modes of being, of

  manifestation, of communicating with others,

  of feeling, of expressing and of living human love.
• What responsibility do human persons

  have regard to their own sexual identity?

  • God has created human beings as male and female, equal in personal dignity, and has called them to a vocation of love and of communion.
• Chastity is a moral virtue, a gift of God, a

  grace, and a fruit of the spirit.
• Means to live chastity:

  • Grace of God
  • Asceticism
  • Help of the Sacraments
  • Prayer
  • temperance
  • Self-knowledge
• The principal sins against chastity:

  • Adultery
  • Masturbation
  • Fornication
  • Pornography
  • Prostitution
  • Rape
  • Homosexual acts
  • Pre-marital sex
• Direct sterilization or contraception is intrinsically immoral

  which proposes, as an end or as a means, to hinder procreation.
• Why are artificial insemination and artificial fertilization immoral?

  They are immoral because they dissociate procreation

  from the act with which the spouses give themselves to each

  other and so introduce the domination of technology

  over the origin and destiny of the human person.
• What is the Church stance about same sex marriage?

  The Vatican has stressed that allowing

  priests to bless same-sex couples is not an

  endorsement of homosexuality, but neither

  is it blasphemous, after some Catholic

  bishops reacted negatively to the measure

  announced last month; Pope Francis approved a ruling in

  December allowing priests to bless

  unmarried and same-sex couples so long as

  the blessing was performed without any

  type of ritualisation and did not give the

  impression of the church’s approval of the

  relationship.
• The 7th commandment requires respect for the universal destination and distribution of goods and the private ownership

  of them, as well as respect for persons, their property, and the integrity of creation.
• What is forbidden by the 7th Commandment?

  • Theft

  • Paying unjust wages

  • Speculation on the value of

  goods in order to gain the

  detriment of others

  • Forgery of checks and invoices

  • Tax evasion or business fraud

  • Willfully damaging private or

  public property

  • Usury

  • Corruption

  • Work deliberately done poorly

  • Waste of resources
• The 8th (Eighth) commandment requires

  • Respect for truth accompanied by

  discretion of charity, protection of

  privacy and danger of scandal be

  taken into account

  • Respecting professional secrets which must be kept, save in exceptional cases for grave and proportionate reasons
  • And also in respecting confidences given under the seal of secrecy as in the seal of Confession
• The 8th (Eighth) commandment forbids:

  • Flattery, adulation,or complaisance, witness
  • Perjury
  • Lying (white or blue)
  • Rash judgment,
  • Slander
  • Defamation
  • Calumny gossiping
• Perjury - the offense of willfully telling an untruth in a court after having taken an oath

  or affirmation.
• Slander or defamation -the action or crime of

  making a false spoken statement damaging

  to a person's reputation.
• Calumny - the making of false and defamatory statements about someone in order to damage their reputation; slander.
• 4. Forgery - the crime of falsely making or

  altering a writing by which the legal rights

  or obligations of another person are

  apparently affected;
• 5. Usury - the illegal action or practice of

  lending money at unreasonably high rates

  of interest.
• 6. Fraud -wrongful or criminal

  deception intended to result in financial

  or personal gain.
• 7. complaisance - disposition to

  please or comply : affability.
• visita inglesia - the visitation of 7 churches
• washing of the feet - servant/service
• resurrection - central in our father