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FIRST COMMANDMENT, 1

The ten commandments are divided into 'two tables': the three
first referred to God and the remaining seven referred to the con-
conduct of one's own person and their relationship with others.

Jesus specifies: 'You shall love the Lord your'

God with all the heart, with all
your soul and with all your mind. This is
the majority the first commandment.
The second similar one to this: loves-
do to your neighbor as you would to yourself.
these two commandments hang all
"the Law and the Prophets" (Mt 22:37-40).
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FIRST COMMANDMENT, 2

Giving glory to God means accepting His greatness and worshiping Him.
man gives glory to God when he believes in Him, if he puts all his
trust and if we read about all things; that is, when we live
faith, hope, and charity. The first commandment (to love
God above all things) encompasses these three virtues.

It is God himself who instills in

the soul of the Christian, in baptism,
these "theological" virtues.

Faith, hope, and charity create

a special communion of life with
God and with one's neighbor.
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FIRST COMMANDMENT, 3

CCE 155: "You will create an act of understanding that assents to the
divine truth by the empire of the will moved by God me-
in front of grace.

Duties with faith

He will respond to God's call: a dialogue initiated by God.

and the man who responds freely; -Believe all truths
that are found in the Creed, with divine and Catholic faith the dogmas,
and firmly the truths proposed definitively by the
Teaching; -Preserve the faith: enrich it through prayer and the
reception of the sacraments; -Illustrate faith: strive to understand-
of what is believed (nifideism-renouncing reason-, nifanatism
religious); -Defend the faith; -Communicate the faith: command of Jesus.
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Sins against faith

Doubt: voluntary or involuntary.

Incredulity: contempt for the truth
revealed.
Heresy: when it is not only defended
an error against faith, but rather it is disobedience
the warning of the hierarchy.
Apostasy: the one who abandons and challenges the faith
that he had professed.
Schism: separation of the Catholic Church and
rejection of authority and obedience to the Pope.
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FIRST COMMANDMENT, 5
Hope
CCE 2090: "When God reveals and calls
to the man, this one can respond fully-
mind to the divine love for its own strength.
May God give you the ability to
to return the love and to act in accordance with the
commandments of charity. Hope is
confidently await divine blessing
and the blessed vision of God; it is so-
well the fear of offending the love of God and
to provoke his punishment.

Saint Josemaría: 'Hope separates me from the things of this world.'

land, but rather brings me closer to those realities in a new way
(Friends of God 305).
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FIRST COMMANDMENT, 6

Sins against hope:

by default, despair;
for excess, presumption.

Faith and hope are two virtues

different, but they have among themselves a
granularity and closeness

Having faith also means having trust in God and maintaining the
hope that eternal life will be achieved;
Hope in God requires faith in Him, for one is sure of
that God is always faithful to His word and keeps His promises;
Therefore, faith integrates hope and this rests on faith.
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FIRST COMMANDMENT, 7

Charity is the theological virtue by which we love God, the supreme good.
and the men for God.

The Greeks distinguished between 'éros' (sensual love

ble), "philia" (affectionate-sentimental love) and "agape"
completely disinterested esteem and preference
that can exist between people).

The term 'agape' was translated as 'caritas'. Signi-

it is the superior love: it is used when it is said
that 'Gods love', when love is mentioned
of the lovers, and it designates the love of God
to men and the love with which a man must
Amazing God.
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Christian morality is the 'morality of love'.

His precepts can be reduced to one only: to love.
(to God and to one's neighbor).

Col 3, 14: charity "is the bond of the

perfection.

1 Jn 3:11, 18: 'The message you have received is this: that we ...'
let us love one another (...). Children, let us not love in word or with
the mouth, without works and for real.

Now these three virtues remain: faith, hope

and charity; but the most excellent of these is charity.
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FIRST COMMANDMENT, 9
Sins against the love of God

Indifference (is neglected or rejected the

Love with God); -Ingratitude (not recognized
the love that God has for us is not returned
and see that love); -Lukewarmth(it is treated with negli-
agency and neglect regarding things related to God;
Acedia (spiritual laziness: discards the joy of
the surrender to God, there is sadness in following Him);
I hate God (ultimate reason: pride, occasion:
it is usually the fact that God condemns the sinner
and I punished him); -I hate my neighbor (presupposes a
direct offense to God, murmuring is included
action, criticism, etc.; -Scandal (serious offense
when through action or omission one induces deliberately
he leads another to sin).
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FIRST COMMANDMENT, 10

Virtue of religion: "It is the virtue that postulates and demands to be given
to God the due worship" (II-II, q. 81, a. 5).

The reason for worshiping God is double:

On the part of the man:

On behalf of God: a the cult is the acceptance-
due to its immensity grateful action toward
greatness (it manifests- that immense greatness.
the creation). The Leads to confirm that
worship is the recognition our existence is
lie of majesty gift of God
divine creator. we will return in the end
of earthly life.
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FIRST COMMANDMENT, 11
Triple etymology of the word 'religion', according to the authors:

1 Religare (to bond): the religious man is a being closely bound...

united to God.

2 Re-elect (re-elect): the religious man is one who in

his existence always chooses God, whom he loves above all
the things.

3 Relegate (re-read): the rational condition of man leads him

allows interpreting ("to read") the enigmas of existence
from God.

This triple etymology allows us to see to what extent religion gives

meaning of man's life.
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FIRST COMMANDMENT, 12
Acts of the virtue of religion: worship, reparation, action of
thanks and request.
Worship
ElATabunda invites you to worship
to the Lord and worship Him. For Jesus, the true-
the worshipers will worship the Father in spirit
and truly (Jn 4:23-24). He invites his disciples
those who worship the Father (Luke 4:8), and He my-
he is adored by his disciples (Luke 5:8-9).
The Apostles confess the glory of God
in everything God may be glorified
Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory and the power for
the ages of ages”). The Apocalypse re-
It pleases the worship of God and Jesus Christ in terms
solemn (Rev 15:3-4).
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Redress
By recognizing the greatness of God and worshiping Him, man acknowledges
suspected and feels the need to atone for them. The de-
atonement for one's own sins is a widespread practice in
the grate

Jesus begins his preaching with the flame.

to conversion and to penance
(Mt 4:17). The Baptist presents him as
the Lamb of God who takes away the sin
of the world" (Jn 1:29).

Jesus often warns about the need to do penance.

He commands the Apostles to 'preach in his name repentance.'
for the remission of sins to all nations” (Luke 24:47).
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FIRST COMMANDMENT, 14

Thanksgiving
When man discovers the greatness of God, he reaffirms that
all his things are a divine gift, which is why he sings a hymn of
thanksgiving.

In the frequent thanksgiving: songs of Moses

(Ex 15, 1-20), of Deborah and Barak (Judges 5), of David (2 Samuel 22,
2-51), etc.. In the NT: Magnificat, canticle of Simeon...

Various acts of thanks from Jesus: resurrection

action of Lazarus (Jn 11, 41), to the Father who 'has
hidden those things from the wise and prudent
and has revealed them to the humble" (Luke 10:21)...
Also thanksgiving in the writings of
the Apostles. Eucharist.
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Prayer of petition
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and it will be opened to you.
will open. Because whoever asks receives, whoever seeks finds, and to whom
"the llama opens up".

Many testimonies of prayer of petition

action in the AT (Abraham please
Sodom and Gomorrah, by Moses
people, Psalms, etc.).

Jesus asks the Father to send the Spirit

Holy (Jn 14, 16), "that he may keep them in me
name" (Jn 17, 6-9), "that they may be one
like us” (Jn 17, 11), etc.
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FIRST COMMANDMENT, 16

The call of God is individual and the response of man is

personal. But they also express themselves with public manifestations:
because man is a social being by nature, and by its nature
characteristic of the religion that manifests in rites, customs, institutions
tuitions, parties, etc., that concern the entire society.

This social dimension of religion requires that

accepted by and protected by political power.
It is worth noting that the Constitution of a nation is declared
"secular" (does not officially recognize any re-
specific religion), but the state must welcome,
to favor and help individuals to
develop their rights, including the right to give
worship God publicly as well. Defend
the 'religious freedom'.
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FIRST COMMANDMENT, 17

The state does not officially profess any religion,

but it should favor private and public cultivation of the
citizens, whether it is expressed individually or in
group.

The secular state tends to adopt belligerent stances.

and includes hostilities against religious groups, which
it opposes the fundamental rights of citizens.
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FIRST COMMANDMENT, 18

Sins against the virtue of religion

By default (the precepts are not fulfilled
relating to the worship due to God): atheism,
agnosticism, apostasy, heresy, doubts
indifference, enlistment to the ma-
ringing (remembered in 1983 by the Sacred
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Due to excess (an improper use is made of it

divine worship): idolatry, superstition, adi-
divination, magic.
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FIRST COMMANDMENT, 19

To avoid the risk of depoliticization of the towns

neighbors, God prohibited that he be represented with
any kind of image (Dt 4:15-16). But since
that God incarnates and becomes man, such danger
disappears. The Church acknowledges and promotes that the
Christian mysteries are represented in images.

The iconoclastic heresy that appeared in the 8th century.

was condemned by the II Council of Nicaea (787),
that proposes that the faithful venerate the images of
the Trinity, Christ, the Virgin and the Saints.

San Basilio: "the honor of the imagination directs to

original” (On the Holy Spirit 18, 45, PG 32, 149).
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FIRST COMMANDMENT, 20

Before divine majesty, man

kneels in a state of deep and
total adoration. But it only adores the
that admires, and are only capable of
discover the admiration of people
humble (poor or rich): seek
response to the latest questions from
human existence and conclude
only in God is found the
adequate response.

After discovering the way, it is

I need to recall it: humility should be
accompany obedience.