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CLE **YES TO GOD** ***1^st^ Commandment***\ Thou shalt have no other idol before me for I am a jelous God. "*You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve" -- Matthew 4:10* **The first commandment is a liberating truth.\ **In worshipping our One True God, we are freed from the...

CLE **YES TO GOD** ***1^st^ Commandment***\ Thou shalt have no other idol before me for I am a jelous God. "*You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve" -- Matthew 4:10* **The first commandment is a liberating truth.\ **In worshipping our One True God, we are freed from the slavery of idolatry in the past and in the modern world today. **The first commandment is also a loving truth.\ **God is a jealous God in a sense that he has no rivals. He demands exclusive loyalty that we may love him with all our whole heart, mind and soul. The first commandment embraces: **Faith , hope, and Charity.** **Faith**\ -Our moral life has its source in faith in God who reveals his faith in God who reveals his love to us. *St. Paul* speaks of "The obedience of faith" as our first obligation ***Various ways of sinning against faith:\ *Voluntary Doubt** -- Disregards or refuses to hold as true what God has revealed and the Church proposes for belief. **Involuntary doubt** -- Refers to hesitation in believing, difficulty in overcoming objections connected with the faith, or also anxiety aroused by its obscurity. If deliberately cultivated doubt can lead to spiritual blindness ***Hope*** -- Is the confident expectation of divine blessing and the beatific vision of God.\ -It is also the fear of offending God's love and of incurring punishment. **Despair**\ - Is contrary to God's goodness to his justice for the Lord is faithful to his promises.\ -By despair man ceases to hope for his personal salvation from God for help in attaining it for the forgiveness of his sins. **Charity\ **-Faith in God's love encompasses the call and the obligation to respond with sincere love to divine charity. *Serious offenses against the First Commandment* include sorcery, forms of magic, witchcraft, Satanism, astrology, fortune-telling, and all ways of seeking to manipulative events for self-interest, or discover hidden knowledge through ways alien God. ***2^nd^ Commandment***\ "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain" -- Exodus 20:7 ***The revealed name of God.** God confides his name to those who believe in him; **He reveals himself to them in his personal mystery.*** **"The Lord's name is holy." For this reason man must not abuse it.** ***Oaths*** -- which misuse God's name, though without the intention of blasphemy, show lack of respect for the Lord, the second commandment also forbids magical use of the divine name. ***Using God's name in vain means using God's name with disrespect in coarse language or as an expression without substance.*** Other offenses include: **Blasphemy.** Or cursing/calling down punishment on others, and **swearing false oaths** or **using God's name to confirm a false statement.** **Blasphemy** - Directly opposed to the second commandment. It consists in uttering against God inwardly and outwardly. And it is a grave sin. ***3^rd^ Commandment\ **"Remember the Sabbath day- keep it holy" -- Exodus 20:8* ***This enjoins worship of the Lord and** in imitation of the Creator's rest on the seventh day of Creation* **It is not the absence of work, but the essential goal of creating which is communing with God.\ **The creation is the means toward the end, which is a communion with God, the creator **Jesus said "The Sabbath was made for man, not man made for the Sabbath"** -- Mark 2:27 It clearly exemplifies that genuine Sabbath worship must not be separated from liberation. **The Lord's Day**\ - This is the day which the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. The day of the Resurrection: the new creation Jesus rose from the dead "*On the first day of the week"* because it is the first day- the day of Christ's resurrection recalls the first creation. **Sunday (Fulfillment of Sabbath)\ **-Expressly distinguished from the Sabbath which it follows chronologically every week; for Christians, its ceremonial observance replaces that of the Sabbath. ***The celebration of Sunday** observes the moral commandment inscribed by nature in the human heart to render to God an outward, visible, public, and regular worship "**As a sign of his universal beneficence to all"*** **Sunday rest means a rest in the presence of God. It involves freeing ourselves from many anxieties of life, too much work and obsession for worldly matters**