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- LESSON THIRTY-SECOND: From the Second to the Fourth Commandment
- Q.1217. What is the second Commandment?
- Q.1218. What do you mean by taking God's name in vain?
- Q.1219. What are we commanded by the second Commandment?
- Q.1220. Is it sinful to use the words of Holy Scripture in a bad or worldly sense?
- Q.1221. What is an oath?
- Q.1222. How is an oath usually taken?
- Q.1223. What is perjury?
- Q.1224. Who have the right to make us take an oath?
- Q.1225. When may we take an oath?
- Q.1226. When may an oath be required for God's honor or for our own or our neighbor's good?
- Q.1227. Is it ever allowed to promise under oath, in secret societies or elsewhere, to obey another in whatever good or evil he commands?
- Q.1228. What societies in general are we forbidden to join?
- Q.1229. Are trades unions and benefit societies forbidden?
- Q.1230. Is it lawful to vow or promise strict obedience to a religious superior?
- Q.1231. What is necessary to make an oath lawful?
- Q.1232. What is a vow?
- Q.1233. Which are the vows most frequently made?
- Q.1234. What do the vows of poverty, chastity and obedience require?
- Q.1235. Has it always been a custom with pious Christians to make vows and promises to God?
- Q.1236. What is a pilgrimage?
- Q.1237. Is it a sin not to fulfill our vows?
- Q.1238. Are we bound to keep an unlawful oath or vow?
- Q.1239. What is forbidden by the second Commandment?
- Q.1240. When is an oath rash, unjust or unnecessary?
- Q.1241. What is blasphemy, and what are profane words?
- Q.1242. What is the third Commandment?
- Q.1243. What are we commanded by the third Commandment?
- Q.1244. What are holydays of obligation?
- Q.1245. How are we to worship God on Sundays and holydays of obligation?
- Q.1246. Name some of the good works recommended for Sunday.
- Q.1247. Is it forbidden, then, to seek any pleasure or enjoyment on Sunday?
- Q.1248. Are the Sabbath day and the Sunday the same?
- Q.1249. What is meant by the Old and New Law?
- Q.1250. Why does the Church command us to keep the Sunday holy instead of the Sabbath?
- Q.1251. Do we keep Sunday instead of Saturday holy for any other reason?
- Q.1252. What is forbidden by the third Commandment?
- Q.1253. What are servile works?
- Q.1254. From what do servile works derive their name?
- Q.1255. Are servile works on Sunday ever lawful?
- Q.1256. Give some examples of when the honor of God, the good of our neighbor or necessity may require servile works on Sunday.