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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pater_Noster ( The Lord’s Prayer! )
The Incarnation
shown as part of a cycle of life of Jesus
with the Trinity in the
central column, by Fridolin Leiber, 18th century.
Catholic
Answers for the Trinity: http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=478124
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The Ten Commandments of
God
@ The Beatitudes of
Jesus Christ to live our lives and follow his teachings! @
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I am the
LORD your God, you shall have no other gods before me. |
Faith (Trust
in God) |
All faith
in God, freedom from lesser gods: wealth, sex, power, popularity. |
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You shall
not take the Name of the LORD your God in vain. |
Respect Holiness |
Respect
for God and the things of God: prayer, worship, religion. |
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Keep holy
the Sabbath day. |
Renewal |
Not just
the Sabbath rest, but setting aside time for prayer, good recreation, quiet
reflection. |
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Honor
your father and mother. |
Family |
Loving care
and respect for all family members, elders and younger siblings, too. Respect
for elders in general. |
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You shall
not kill. |
Respect For Life |
Courtesy
to all, speaking respectfully to all, seeking the best for all. Respecting
others' freedom while still defending all human life. |
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You shall
not commit adultery. |
Chastity Faithfulness (Fidelity) |
Faithful
actions beyond just abstaining from sexual contact outside of marriage.
Respect for sex and marriage. |
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You shall
not steal. |
Justice (Honesty) |
Concern
for the rights of others, especially when they get in the way of what we
desire. A commitment to fairness and a willingness to suffer loss rather than
depriving another. |
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You shall
not bear false witness. |
Truth |
A dedication
to what is real and true, even if that reality is against our interests. |
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You shall
not covet your neighbor's wife. |
Purity |
A
desire to want only what God wills. A single-hearted devotion to God's way. |
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You shall
not covet your neighbor's goods. |
Generosity |
A
cooperation in God's own generosity that sees all goods as belonging to God
and freely given for the good of all. |
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PRAYER TO SAINT JUDE
O most holy apostle,
St. Jude, faithful servant and
friend of Jesus -- People honor and invoke you universally, as the patron of hopeless cases, of things almost despaired of. Pray
for me, for I am so helpless and alone. Please
help to bring me visible and speedy assistance. Come to my assistance in this great need that I may receive the consolation and help of heaven in all my necessities, tribulations, and
sufferings, particularly (state your request) and that I may praise God with you always. I promise, O blessed St.
Jude, to be ever mindful of this great favor, to always honor you as my special
and powerful patron, and to
gratefully encourage devotion to you by publishing this request. Amen.
The Seven Deadly Sins: A Convenient Guide to
Eternal Damnation
The
medieval period and the early Renaissance period inherited an elaborate
Christian model of sin.
Over
a dozen such models exist. The most popular one lists seven sins and subdivides
them into three
"spiritual"
sins and four "corporal" (bodily) sins. All seven of the sins were
deadly evils (i.e.,
potentially
a cause of damnation), but the spiritual sins were generally acknowledged as
more
dangerous
than sins that arose only from the weakness of the body.
The Seven
Deadly Sins
Three
Spiritual Sins
1.
Pride (spiritual sin)
2.
Envy (spiritual sin)
3.
Wrath (spiritual sin affected by body)
Four
Corporal Sins
4. Accidia
or
Sloth (corporal sin)
5. Avaricia/Cupiditas
or
Greed
(corporal
sin)
6.
Gluttony (corporal sin)
7.
Lust (corporal sin)
The Seven Holy Virtues
Three
Spiritual (or Theological) Virtues
1. Fides
(Faith)
2. Spes
(Hope)
3. Caritas
(Charity)
The
Four Cardinal (or Pagan) Virtues
4.
Prudence
5.
Temperance
6.
Fortitude
7.
Justice
The
Seven Virtues opposed the Seven Sins. In one scheme, the Seven Virtues are
based on the three
spiritual
virtues listed by Saint Paul in 1 Corinthians 13:1-13: Faith, Hope and Charity,
followed by
the
four Cardinal or "Pagan" virtues: Prudence, Temperance, Fortitude,
and Justice. (The idea was
that
any person, whether he or she was a Christian or not, might possess the four
Cardinal Virtues.
Only
a Christian in medieval belief would possess faith in God, hope for an
afterlife, and caritas--
the
type of charity in which one does good deeds out of love for God alone.)
An
alternative but equally popular version of the Seven Virtues was the
"remedial" or "contrarian"
model,
which listed specific virtues as the "cures" or "remedies"
that stand in opposition to each of
the
seven sins. Prudentius devised this model in 410 AD in his allegorical poem the
Psychomachia
("The
Battle for the Soul"). His scheme of virtues and vices looked something
like this:
Humility
cures
Pride
Kindness
cures
Envy
Abstinence
cures
Gluttony
Chastity
cures
Lust
Patience
cures
Wrath
Liberality
cures
Greed
Diligence
cures
Sloth
Continuing
the numerological mysticism of seven, the medieval church assembled a list of
seven
good
works in the catechism as cures to the seven deadly sins: these included
sheltering strangers,
feeding
the hungry, giving drink to those thirsting, clothing the naked, visiting the
sick, ministering
to
the imprisoned, and burying the dead. All these traditional views, however,
were objects of much
intellectual
tinkering in the Renaissance when Protestant Christians sought to separate
themselves
theologically
from the older Catholic teachings, and Catholic theologians sought to
distinguish
themselves from the upstart Protestant
groups.
@@@ Faith, Hope, and Charity @@@