Having discussed prayer, the interior life of all Christians, in Lesson Twenty-Eighth, the Baltimore Catechism No. 2 now begins six lessons on the exterior rule of life: the Ten Commandments.
While they were given by God to Moses in the Old Testament, the Ten Commandments are not superseded by the New Covenant but fulfilled. Thus, merely belonging to the Church established by Christ is not enough to ensure our salvation; we must also keep the commandments.
The Ten Commandments are summed up in the two great commandments of Christ: to love God with our whole heart, mind, soul, and strength, and to love our neighbor as ourselves. The Ten Commandments serve as guides, both positive and negative, to help us live our lives according to the two great commandments.
God the Father gave the Ten Commandments to Moses on Mount Sinai; Jesus Christ, God the Son, confirmed the commandments in His own life and teaching. Over the next five lessons, we will examine the meaning of each of the Ten Commandments.
Lesson Twenty-Ninth from the Confirmation Catechism has 5 questions. Note that the lesson begins with Question 310, continuing with the numbering from Lesson Twenty-Eighth.
The parallel lesson this week in the First Communion Catechism is Lesson Twenty-Fifth. It includes 2 questions drawn from Lesson Twenty-Ninth of the Confirmation Catechism.
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Previous Lessons in Sunday School:- Welcome to Sunday School!
- On God and His Perfections
- On the Unity and Trinity of God
- On Creation
- On Our First Parents and the Fall
- On Sin and Its Kinds
- On the Incarnation and Redemption
- On Our Lord's Passion, Death, Resurrection, and Ascension
- On the Holy Ghost and His Descent Upon the Apostles
- On the Effects of the Redemption
- On the Church
- On the Attributes and Marks of the Church
- On the Sacraments in General
- On Baptism
- On Confirmation
- On the Gifts and Fruits of the Holy Ghost
- On the Sacrament of Penance
- On Contrition
- On Confession
- On the Manner of Making a Good Confession
- On Indulgences
- On the Holy Eucharist
- On the Ends for Which the Holy Eucharist Was Instituted
- On the Sacrifice of the Mass
- On Extreme Unction and Holy Orders
- On Matrimony
- On the Sacramentals
- On Prayer