§ 1. The first commandment.
350. Why is it said at the beginning: "I am the Lord thy God"?
Leading the commandments it says: "I am the Lord thy God" so we know that God is our Creator and Lord, we can order what he wants and that we, his creatures, we are required to obey him.
351. What God commands us through the words of the first commandment: "Thou shalt have no other God before me"? In the words
the first commandment: "Thou shalt have no other God before me," God commands us to recognize, worship, love and serve Him alone as our sovereign Lord.
352. How do we perform the first commandment?
is accomplished by the first commandment of worship inside and outside of worship.
353. What the cult inside?
worship inside is the honor we render to God with the faculties of the mind alone, that is to say, with intelligence and will.
354. What outside the cult?
The external worship is the homage that we render to God through acts of external and sensible objects.
355. He does not worship God in his inner heart?
No, it is not enough to worship God in his inner heart, we must worship him also externally, with his mind as his body because he is the Creator and absolute Lord of one and another.
356. The external worship can exist without the cult inside?
No, outside the cult can not possibly survive without the cult inside, because if not accompanied, it is deprived of life, merit and efficiency, like a body without a soul.
357. We defended the first commandment?
The first commandment forbids us to idolatry, superstition, blasphemy, heresy and other sins against religion.
358. What is idolatry?
idolatry is called the making to any creature, for example a statue, an image, a man, the supreme worship of adoration which is due only God alone.
359. How is this expressed in defense of Scripture?
In Sacred Scripture, we find that defense by the words: "Thou shalt not tread, nor any representation of what is up there in heaven and here on earth. And thou shalt not do these things, thou shalt do no worship them. "
360. These words do they defend all sorts of images?
No, certainly, but only those of false deities, made for the purpose of worship, as did the idolaters. This is so true that God Himself commanded Moses to make some, like the two statues of cherubim were on the ark and the brazen serpent in the desert.
361. What is superstition?
is called superstition any doctrine contrary to the devotion and the use of the Church, such as the attribution to an action or thing whatsoever any supernatural virtue that it does not.
362. What sacrilege?
The sacrilege is the desecration of a place, person or thing consecrated to God for his worship.
363. What that heresy?
Heresy is guilty of an error by which intelligence is denied stubbornly some truth of faith.
364. What else defends the first commandment?
The first commandment forbids us even to have intercourse with the devil and we aggregate the anti-Christian sects.
365. One who would resort to invoke the devil or he will commit a serious sin?
Whoever would use to invoke the devil or commit an enormous sin, because the devil is the most evil enemies of God and man.
366. Is it possible to query the tables called "talking" or "writing", or consult in any way whatsoever by the souls of the departed spiritualism?
All practices of spiritualism are prohibited because they are superstitious and often they are not without intervention diabolical as they have just been banned by the Church.
367. The first commandment forbids perhaps to honor and invoke the angels and saints?
No, it is not forbidden to honor and invoke the angels and the saints, we must do this anyway, because it is a good thing, useful and highly recommended by the Church because they are friends of God and our intercessors with him.
368. Since Jesus Christ is our only mediator with God, why do we have recourse also to the intercession of the Blessed Virgin and the saints?
Jesus Christ is our Mediator with God, because, being true God and true man, alone under its own merits reconciled us with God and we get him all the graces. But the Blessed Virgin and the saints, in virtue of the merits of Jesus Christ and Charity unites us to God and help us by their intercession to obtain the graces we ask. And this is one of the great blessings of the communion of saints.
369. Can we also honor the sacred image of Jesus Christ and the saints?
Yes, because the honor which is made to the holy images of Christ and the saints is related to their own people.
370. And relics of saints can we honor them?
Yes, we must also honor the relics of saints, because their bodies were living members of Christ and temples of the Holy Spirit, and they should resurrect glorious eternal life.
371. What difference is there between the worship we render to God and our worship to saints?
Between our worship to God and our worship to the saints there is this difference that God, we love for its infinite excellence, and the saints on the contrary, we do not worship them, but we honor them and we venerate them as the friends of God and our intercessors with Him. The worship we render to God is called worship latria "that is to say, adoration, and worship as we pay the saints is called dulia cult" that is to say reverence for God's servants; finally we pay special homage to the Blessed Virgin called "cult of hyperdulia" that is to say any special veneration as the Mother of God.
§ 2. The second commandment.
372. We advocate the second commandment: "Thou shalt not use in vain the name of God"?
The second commandment: "Thou shalt not use in vain the name of God forbids us:
• use God's name without respect;
• blaspheming against God, the Blessed Virgin cons and cons saints;
• making false oaths and without necessity or defended in any capacity whatsoever.
373. What use God's name without respect?
Using God's name without respect is to pronounce the holy name and all that relates in a special way to God, as the name of Jesus, Mary and the saints, in anger, in jest or otherwise disrespectful.
374. What is blasphemy?
Blasphemy is a horrible sin that lies in words or acts of contempt or curse against God, the Blessed Virgin, saints or holy things cons.
375. Is there a difference between blasphemy and imprecation?
There is a difference, because we run into blasphemy or cursing one wishes evil to God, the Blessed Virgin, the saints, while the curse is to oneself or the next.
376. What swearing?
swear is to take God to witness the truth of what they say or what they promise.
377. Is it still forbidden to swear? It is not
always forbidden to swear, it is allowed and even an honor given to God when there is a need and that the oath is made with truth, justice and discernment.
378. When are we truly do not swear? When
oath affirms what is known or believed to be false, and when we promise with an oath that they did not intend to do.
379. When are we wisely do not swear? When we swear
without caution and without reflection or for things of little importance.
380. When are we does not clash with justice? When
swear to do something that is not fair or permitted, such as revenge, stealing and other such things.
381. Are we obligated to take the oath to do things wrong or forbidden?
Not only we did not have, but we should sin by making them because they are forbidden by the law of God or the Church.
382. What commits sin who swear falsely?
Whoever swears falsely commits a mortal sin because it dishonors God seriously, infinite truth, taking it to a witness wrong thing.
383. We ordered the second commandment?
The second commandment enjoins us to honor the holy name of God and fulfill not only the vows, but vows.
384. What is a vow?
A vow is a promise made to God a good thing, possible for us, and better than its opposite, to which we bind ourselves as if we had ordered.
385. If the fulfillment of a vow became wholly or in part very difficult, what should he do?
can seek commutation or exemption from the vow to his bishop or to the Sovereign Pontiff, according to the importance of the vow.
386. Is it a sin to miss the wishes?
Missing Wishing is a sin. So we should not make vows without careful consideration and usually without the advice of the confessor or another person of prudence, so as not to expose ourselves to the danger of sin.
387. Can we make vows to the Blessed Virgin and the saints?
It is only God's wishes, however we can promise God to do something in honor of the Blessed Virgin or the saints.
§ 3. The Third Commandment.
388. We ordered the third commandment: "Remember to sanctify the holidays?
The third commandment: "Remember to sanctify the Holidays" commands us to honor God through the practices of worship, holy days.
389. What are the holidays?
In the old law, it was the Sabbath and other days for the people particularly solemn Hebrew in the new law, these are the Sundays and other solemnities established by the Church.
390. Why in the new law does is sanctify Sunday instead of Saturday?
Sunday, which means the Lord's day was substituted for Saturday, because it is on this day that Jesus Christ our Lord is risen.
391. What is the practice of religion is that we controlled the holidays?
We are commanded to assist devoutly at Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
392. What other practices by a good Christian he sanctifies the holidays?
A good Christian holy festivals:
• by attending the Christian Doctrine, to preaching and offices;
• receiving often with suitable provisions the sacraments of Penance and the Eucharist;
• by engaging in prayer and works of Christian charity toward the neighbor.
393. We advocate the third commandment?
The third commandment forbids us servile works and any other occupation which distracts us from the divine worship.
394. What works menial defended the holidays?
Works servile defended the holidays are the so-called manual work, that is to say the physical work which the body has more part than the mind, as those that are commonly servants, workers and artisans.
395. What does one commit a sin by working on holidays?
By working on holidays, you commit a mortal sin, however if the work lasts a short time, there is no misconduct.
396. Is there no servile work that is permitted on holidays?
The holidays are allowed the necessary work to life or to serve God and those made for a grave reason, asking, if possible, to leave his parish priest.
397. Why are they servile works defended the holidays?
Works servile are forbidden on holidays, so we can better deal for divine worship and the salvation of our souls, and that we were resting from our labors. Also, it is not forbidden to engage in honest fun.
398. What other things should we avoid especially on holidays?
On holidays, we must avoid above all sin and all that can carry us to sin as the amusements and meetings dangerous.
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