LESSON 26 —The Ten Commandments and the Eight Beatitudes

Read the following references to further clarify the central ideas of this lesson. Look in other places as well as these; this is not an exhaustive list of the resources needed to answer the questions.

Father Hardon’s Catholic Catechism

Pages 283-285 (Determinants of Morality)
Pages 285-287 (Degrees of Imputability-Ignorance)
Pages 288-290 (Concepts and Kinds of Law)
Pages 290-293 (Conscience in Christianity)
pages 293-295 (Objective Principles of Conduct)

Father Hardon’s Question and Answer Catechism

#492-516 (Human Responsibility)
#838-875 (The Beatitudes)
#884-901 (Conscience)
#934-935 (Temptation from the world)
#936 (Temptation of the flesh)
#940
#947

Revised Basic Course Manual

Page 10 (Human Nature/Intellect (mind) and will)
Page 58 (The Worship of God: The Virtue of Religion)
Page 97 – 109 (The Beatitudes)

Scripture –

For Matching Section: Match Scripture passages by using a Bible Concordance (book or online concordance).

James 1:13
John 15:20
Matthew 5:28

Catechism of the Catholic Church

#142-143(Man’s Response to God)
#530
#1716-1729 (Our Vocation to Beatitude)
#1749 (Morality of Human Acts)
#1809, 1816
#2339
#2515-2519 (Purification of the Heart)
#2548-2549

Modern Catholic Dictionary Vocabulary –

Review the following terms in your Modern Catholic Dictionary reference book (or online version at TheRealPresence.org – go to the bottom of the page, click on “Dictionary”).

Apparent Good
Beatific Vision
Beatitudes
Capital sins
Capital virtues
Cardinal virtue

Chastity
Concupiscence
Conscience
Correct Conscience
Courage
Custody of the Senses
Damnation
Desire
Detachment
Distributive justice
Evil

Evil Desire
Evil Habits
Fortitude
Good
Habit
Happiness
Hell
Human Act
Involuntary
Justice
Meekness
Moral Evil
Pain
Passion
Persecution
Physical Evil
Purity of Intention
Religion
Sin
Soul
Suffering
Temperance
Temptation
Theological virtue
True Conscience
True Good
Will

Supplemental Vocabulary –

Read the following terms in the Supplemental Vocabulary Definitions.

Absolute Evil

The Real Presence.org Articles

“The Will of God, Christian Morality” by Father John A. Hardon, S.J.