Week 5: The Ten Commandments of God

The Ten Commandments of God

• Opening Prayer

  • Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle in them the fire of your love. Send forth your Spirit and they shall be created.  And you shall renew the face of the earth. O God, who by the light of the Holy Spirit did instruct the hearts of the faithful, grant that by the same Holy Spirit we may be truly wise and ever enjoy your consolations.  Through Christ our Lord.  Amen.

•  Video

  • Bishop Barron on The Ten Commandments of God.

• Questions For Discussion

  • The Ten Commandments are the foundation of the Moral life. They are divided into two categories, what are those categories.

  • Many things often take the place of God in our lives, how have you experienced this and how are you committed to making God the Center of your life?

  • Why is Sunday worship obligatory for us Catholics?

  • How do you understand the 4^th Commandment?

  • Robbing someone of their good name is a violation of the 7^th commandment. How do you understand the 7^th Commandment?

  • What is the 9^th and 10^th Commandment about and how are you able to relate with these Commandments?

• Sacred Scripture on Prayer

  • Exodus 20:1-10

• Closing Prayer:
  Prayer of St. Anslem. I am not trying, O Lord, to penetrate your loftiness, for I cannot begin to match my understanding with it, but I desire in some measure to understand your truth, which my heart believes and loves. For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For this too I believe, that ‘unless I believe, I shall not understand.