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- LESSON THIRTIETH: On the First Commandment
- Q.1140. What is the first Commandment?
- Q.1141. What does the commandment mean by "strange gods"?
- Q.1142. How may we, in a sense, worship strange gods?
- Q.1143. How does the first Commandment help us to keep the great Commandment of the love of God?
- Q.1144. How do we adore God?
- Q.1145. By what prayers do we adore God?
- Q.1146. How may the first Commandment be broken?
- Q.1147. What is the honor which belongs to God alone?
- Q.1148. How do we offer God false worship?
- Q.1149. Why must we serve God in the form of religion He has instituted and in no other?
- Q.1150. When do we attribute to a creature a perfection which belongs to God alone?
- Q.1151. 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?
- Q.1152. What are spells and charms?
- Q.1153. Are not Agnus Deis, medals, scapulars, etc., which we wear about our bodies also charms?
- Q.1154. What must we carefully guard against in all our devotions and religious practices?
- Q.1155. What are dreams and why is it forbidden to believe in them?
- Q.1156. Are bad dreams sinful in themselves?
- Q.1157. Did not God frequently in the Old Law make use of dreams as a means of making known His will?
- Q.1158. What are mediums and spiritists?
- Q.1159. What other practice is very dangerous to faith and morals?
- Q.1160. What are fortune tellers?
- Q.1161. How do we, by believing in spells, charms, mediums, spiritists and fortune tellers, attribute to creatures the perfections of God?
- Q.1162. Is it sinful to consult mediums, spiritists, fortune tellers and the like when we do not believe in them, but through mere curiosity to hear what they may say?
- Q.1163. Are sins against faith, hope, and charity also sins against the first Commandment?
- Q.1164. How does a person sin against faith?
- Q.1165. How do we fail to try to know what God has taught?
- Q.1166. What means have we of learning the Christian doctrine?
- Q.1167. Should we learn the Christian doctrine merely for our own sake?
- Q.1168. How should such instruction be given to those who ask it of us?
- Q.1169. Who are they who do not believe all that God has taught?
- Q.1170. Name the different classes of unbelievers and tell what they are.
- Q.1171. Will the denial of only one article of faith make a person a heretic?
- Q.1172. What is an article of faith?
- Q.1173. Who are they who neglect to profess their belief in what God has taught?
- Q.1174. How do persons who are members of the Church neglect to profess their belief?
- Q.1175. What chiefly prevents persons who believe in the Church from becoming members of it?
- Q.1176. What does Our Lord say of those who neglect the true religion for the sake of relatives or friends, or from fear of suffering?
- Q.1177. What excuse do some give for neglecting to seek and embrace the true religion?
- Q.1178. How do we show that such an excuse is false and absurd?
- Q.1179. Can they who fail to profess their faith in the true Church in which they believe expect to be saved while in that state?
- Q.1180. Are we obliged to make open profession of our faith?
- Q.1181. When does God's honor, our neighbor's spiritual good, or our own good require us to make an open profession of our faith ?
- Q.1182. Which are the sins against hope?
- Q.1183. What is presumption?
- Q.1184. How may we be guilty of presumption?
- Q.1185. What is despair?
- Q.1186. How may we be guilty of despair?
- Q.1187. Are all sins of presumption and despair equally great?
- Q.1188. How do we sin against the love of God?