Monday, November 27, 2017
Youcat commented through CCC – Question n. 367 – Part I.
(Youcat
answer) The Fourth Commandment refers in the first place to one’s physical
parents, but also to the people to whom we owe our life, our well-being, our
security, and our faith.
A deepening through CCC
(CCC 2197) The fourth commandment opens the second table of the
Decalogue. It shows us the order of charity. God has willed that, after him, we
should honor our parents to whom we owe life and who have handed on to us the
knowledge of God. We are obliged to honor and respect all those whom God, for
our good, has vested with his authority.
Reflecting and meditating
(Youcat comment) What we owe in the first place to our
parents—namely love, gratitude, and respect—should
also govern our relations to people who guide us and are there for us. There
are many people who represent for us a God-given, natural, and good authority:
foster or step-parents, older relatives and ancestors, educators, teachers,
employers, superiors. In the spirit of the Fourth Commandment we should do them
justice. In the broadest sense, this commandment applies even to our duties as
citizens to the State.
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 2196) In response to the question about the first of the
commandments, Jesus says: "The first is, 'Hear, O Israel: the Lord our
God, the Lord is one; and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart,
and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.'
the second is this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no
other commandment greater than these" (Mk 12:29-31; cf. Deut 6:4-5; Lev
19:18; Mt 22:34-40; Lk 10:25-28). The apostle St. Paul reminds us of this:
"He who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. The commandments, 'You shall not commit adultery, You shall
not kill, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,' and any other
commandment, are summed up in this sentence, 'You shall love your neighbor as
yourself.' Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling
of the law" (Rom 13:8-10).
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