Sunday: Monastery Mass & Breakfast
Questions: Section 34: The First Three Commandments
What is the significance of the Ten Commandments
What is the first commandment?
How do we practice faith, hope, and love?
How serious are sins against faith?
What are the sins against faith?
What are the sins against hope?
How does one sin by presumption?
What is despair?
What are the sins against love?
What is the second commandment?
What are the sins against the second commandment?
What is the third commandment?
Why did the Church change the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday?
How are we obliged to worship God on Sundays and holy days of obligation?
Is our attendance and participation in the Sunday Mass an obligation?
Is assistance at Mass all that is required on Sundays and holy days?
What kind of work is forbidden on Sunday?
What kind of work is permitted on Sunday?
Saint for the week: St. Bernadette
Homework: Sections 35, 36, 38: The Fourth, Fifth, Seventh, and Tenth Commandments
What is the significance of the family?
What is the fourth commandment?
Whom must we obey?
Does the fourth commandment oblige us to love our country?
Are there limits to this obligation?
What is the fifth commandment?
What are the sins against the fifth commandment?
Is it ever permitted to take the life of another ?
Why are abortion and “mercy killing” against the fifth commandment?
How are we obliged to preserve our own lives and health?
How serious a sin is it to mutilate the body unnecessarily, to deprive it of an important function or to shorten one’s life?
Is it permissible to participate in medical experiments or to donate organs?
What is hatred?
Is war morally acceptable?
Is a Christian obliged to serve in the military?
Are religious and racial prejudice against the fifth commandment?
May we seek revenge or refuse to forgive injuries?
What is scandal?
How serious are sins of hatred, scandal, cooperation in sin and uncharitable words and actions?
What are the seventh and tenth commandments?
What are the sins against the seventh and tenth commandments?
How is the seriousness of sins against the seventh commandment determined?
When is there an obligation of making restitution?
What does the Church say about the right to private property?
Is justice between two individuals the only form of justice about which Christians should be concerned?
Why is concern for justice a religious concern?
What does the Church say about justice?
Prayer for the Week: An Act of Love (Charity)
O my God, I love you above all things, with my whole heart and soul, because you are all-good and worthy of all love. I love my neighbor as myself for the love of you. I forgive all who have injured me and ask pardon of all whom I have injured.