• The Fourth Commandment: Strengthen Your Family (CCC 2196–2257)

• Honour Your Father and your Mother  The Fourth Commandment, ‘Honour your father and your mother’, focuses on family life in all its dimensions – the duties and responsibilities of parents and child... [read more]

• The Third Commandment: Love the Lord’s Day (CCC 2168–2195)

• Remember to keep Holy the Lord’s Day In Genesis, God rests on the seventh day after his work of creating the world. God builds into human nature a balanced rhythm of work and rest, whereby we are ... [read more]

• The Second Commandment: Reverence God’s Name (CCC 2142–2167)

• ‘You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in Vain’  God has first loved the world; the first of the Ten Commandments speaks of our response to God’s love. To believe in the One Triune... [read more]

• The First Commandment: Believe in the True God (CCC 2083–2141)

• ‘I, the Lord, am Your God … You shall not have other Gods besides me’ (EX 20:2-3) God has first loved the world; the first of the Ten Commandments speaks of our response to God’s love. To believe i... [read more]

• Life in Christ – Part Two (CCC 1691–2082)

• The Principles of the Christian Moral Life  Respect for the dignity of each human person involves respect for the rights that flow from that dignity. Created in the image and likeness of God (Gn 1:... [read more]

• Life in Christ – Part One (CCC 1691–2082)

• The Foundations of the Christian Moral Life  To be human is to be faced with moral choices: ‘to do what is good and avoid evil.’ The Sacraments of Initiation, Healing and Service strengthen us with t... [read more]

• Sacramentals and Popular Devotions (CCC 1667–1679)

• Forms of Popular Piety  Sacramentals are sacred signs instituted by the Church that mediate spiritual effects such as blessings, protection and peace through the Church. They bear resemblance to th... [read more]

• The Sacrament of Marriage (CCC 1601–1666)

• Marriage is a Sacrament at the Service of Communion  Sacred Scripture begins with the creation and the original unity of man and woman. In the last book of the Bible, we read of the ‘wedding feast ... [read more]

• Holy Orders (CCC 1536–1600)

• The Sacrament of Holy Orders is at the service of the Communion of the Church To serve God, the Church and the faithful through the ministerial priesthood is a vocation, an invitation from the Lord t... [read more]

• Anointing the Sick and the Dying (CCC 1499–1532)

• The Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick is the Second of the Sacraments of  Healing  In his earthly ministry Jesus healed the whole person, body, mind, spirit and soul. In the Gospels, we see Jesus ... [read more]

• Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation: God Is Rich in Mercy (CCC 1420-1498)

• In this Sacrament of Healing we are Reconciled to God and the Church  Through the Sacraments of Christian Initiation, we receive the new life of Christ. But the weakness of our human nature and our... [read more]

• The Eucharist: Source and Summit of the Christian Life (CCC 1322-1419)

• The Holy Eucharist completes Christian Initiation  The Sacrament of the Eucharist, the ‘summary of our faith’, completes sacramental initiation. We believe that the Eucharist is the ‘source and summi... [read more]