- God the Father through God the Son created all things CCC # 296, 301 God the Father not only free created ex nihilo but sustains His creation as well.
# 291 God created everything by the Eternal Word, His beloved Son.
In Him all things were created, in heaven and on earth… all things were created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together Col 1:16-17
III. Apex Of Creation is Man whose duty and pleasure is to know and serve His Creator
CCC #1 God, infinitely perfect and blessed in himself, in a plan of sheer goodness freely created man to make him share in his own blessed life. For this reason, at every time and in every place, God draws close to man. He calls man to seek him, to know him, to love him with all his strength. He calls together all men, scattered and divided by sin, into the unity of his family, the Church. To accomplish this, when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son as Redeemer and Savior. In his Son and through him, he invites men to become, in the Holy Spirit, his adopted children and thus heirs of his blessed life.
- The Fall with original sin man’s intellect was darkened, will weakened, emotions disordered and often times man acted evilly contrary to the will of God
- Yahweh, Lord a title appropriated by Jesus, is considered as God, refer back to the Trinity,
God in His mercy revealed to man the decalogue # CCC 446
- The Decalogue (Ten Words) CCC Section Two #2052 and following
[ 4 parts to CCC. I Apostles Creed, II Sacraments, III Morality, IV Prayer]
10 Commandments in Third Part, morality, how to live for eternal life.
Mt 19:16-19 Jesus’ answer to query, ‘Teacher what must I do?’ Lists the commandments
- Exodus 20: 12 “Honor your father and your mother,that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
Honor father and mother comes after worship of God and before man’s duties towards others. It is the only commandment with an inducement to keep it- long life and land. These words are compact for expansive Hebraic ideas.
VII. Jesus as the Way, Truth and Life kept all the commandments faithfully. As Christians, it is His example (as both our God and Savior) of honoring (His Mother, Mary) we strive to imitate Him.
VIII. Pivotal question then is: How did Jesus love His Mother? Jesus is our Model in all things.
Blessings honoring mother father, land & long life. Comes with a blessing, articulated, we are not moved by it.
3 & 7 Commandments, holy numbers
Transitional commandment first of another perfect number. Fruit for meditation.
Hebrew and Greek 2 languages of SS. Hebrew words more expansive.