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12 Cards in this Set
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What is the First Commandment?
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The First Commandment is: "I am the Lord thy God: thou shalt not have strange gods before Me."
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How does the First Commandment help us to keep the great Commandment of the love of God?
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The First Commandment helps us to keep the great Commandment of the love of God because it commands us to adore God alone.
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How do we adore God?
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We adore God by faith, hope, and charity, by prayer and sacrifice.
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How may the First Commandment be broken?
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The First Commandment may be broken by giving to a creature the honor which belongs to God alone; by false worship; and by attributing to a creature a perfection which belongs to God alone.
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Do those who make use of spells and charms, or who believe in dreams, in mediums, spiritists, fortune tellers, and the like, sin against the First Commandment?
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Those who make use of spells and charms, or who believe in dreams, in mediums, spiritists, fortune tellers, and the like, sin against the First Commandment, because they attribute to creatures perfections which belong to God alone.
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How do we sometimes worship false or strange gods?
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By making dress, money, honor, society, company, or pleasure our god--that is, by giving up the worship of God and sinning for their sake, and thus making them god, at least for the
time being, by giving them our heart, mind, and service. |
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False worship
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worshiping God not as He directs us by His Church, but in some ways pleasing to ourselves
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Fortune tellers
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Fortune tellers are persons who pretend to know what is going to happen in the future.
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Spells
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certain words, the saying of which persons believe will effect for them something wonderful--a miraculous cure, for instance, or protection from some evil
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Charms
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articles worn about the body for the same purpose. They may be little black beans, little stones of a certain shape, the teeth of animals, etc.
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Are not these medals, scapulars, etc., that we wear, also charms?
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No. These things are blessed and worn in honor of God, of His Blessed Mother, or of the saints. We do not expect any help from the little piece of brass or cloth we wear, but from those in whose honor we wear it, and from the prayers said in the blessing for those who wear it.
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Mediums and spiritists
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persons who pretend they can talk with the dead in the other world, and learn where they are and what they are doing
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