commandments

1. Holy Spirit Academy
of Malolos
Bagong Bayan, City of Malolos, Bulacan
Christian Living

2. Opening Prayer

3. Holy Spirit Academy
of Malolos
Bagong Bayan, City of Malolos, Bulacan
Christian Living

4. Activity
Word Web
Write words that you associate with “sexuality.”
They could be concepts, symbols, names, title of songs
or movies, or anything that comes to your mind whenever
you heard the said word.

5. Main Topic
Yes to Responsible
Love

6. Objectives
Doctrine
Deepens one’s understanding on the Sixth and
Ninth Commandments. Recognize the values and
virtues behind the Sixth and Ninth
Commandments.

7. Objectives
Commit to be chaste in thoughts,
words and deeds; and express love in
service to others according to the
teachings of the Gospel.

8. Objectives
Worship
Pray for God’s grace to be
pure and be a good model
for others in imitation of
Jesus Christ.

9. Essential Question?
How does
responsible Love
influence
different people’s
behavior?

10. Etymology
“Resonsible”
came from the
Latin Word
“Respondere”
Accountable,
Important,
answerable,.

11. Etymology
“Love”
came from
the Latin
Word
“Amor”
Affection,
Cupidon,
Fondness,
Adoration,
Attachment,
Charity.

12. The Sixth
Commandment

13. • The Sixth Commandment, “You
shall not commit adultery” (Exodus
20:14), forbids married persons
from entering into sexual union
with someone other that their
spouse.
• But more than its literal meaning,
this commandment has more
social significance than sexual. It
aims to protect the family which is
the basic unit necessary for
progress and development in
society

14. • This Commandment is
directly related to the
Creation narratives in the
book of Genesis.
• God created man, male
and female, so that man
would not be alone
(Genesis 2:18), and to
multiply and fill the earth
(Genesis 1:28).

15. • This implies that human
sexuality is for both human
completeness and procreation.
• Thus, while focusing on the
specific relationship of marriage,
the Sixth Commandment
actually touches upon the very
nature of human sexuality, the
entire range of man-woman
relationships, and our common
vocation to love and communion
(cf. CCC 2331).

16. • The first consequence of
this fundamental truth of
creation is that “in creating
the human race ‘male and
female,’
• God gives man and woman
and equal dignity, endowing
them with the inalienable
rights and responsibilities
proper to human person”
(Familia Consortio 22).

17. • The second consequence
stresses that man and
woman are different but
complementary.
• The equality of man and
woman as person does not
entail any unisex
sameness that denies all
distinctiveness of the
sexes.

18. • The third consequence is man
and woman are both different and
complementary, not only their
physical and biological being,
• but reaching down to the depth of
their moral and spiritual being.
Because of this complementarity
of man and woman, they are
called to mutual gift of self, to
reciprocity.

19. • The fourth consequence is
the call for all to love wither
married or celibate to love
them.
• For the married, the Sixth
Commandment calls for a free
and responsible fidelity to a
conjugal union that is lifelong.
• It implies unity of man and
woman in all aspects of life.

20. Sins against Sixth
Commandment

21. • Adultery: is a form of injustice. He/She
who commits adultery falls in his/her
commitment.
• He/She does injury to the sign of the
covenant which the marriage bond is,
transgresses the rights of the other
spouse, and undermines the institution of
marriage by breaking the contract on
which it is based.
• He/She compromises the good of human
generation and the welfare of the
children who need their parents’ stable
union.

22. • Divorce: is a grave offense against
the natural law. It claims to break the
contract, to which the spouses freely
consented, to live with each other till
death.
• Divorce does injury to the covenant of
salvation, of which sacramental
marriage is the sign.
• Contracting a new union, even if it is
recognized by civil laws, adds to the
gravity of the rupture – the remarried
spouse is then in a situation of public
and permanent adultery.

23. The Ninth
Commandment

24. • “You shall not covet your
neighbor’s wife” (Exodus 20:17)
completes the Sixth
Commandment by going to the
interior root and source of
disorders of the flesh;
covetousness of the heart.
• The Ninth Commandment
protects human sexuality from all
these disordered and evil desires
of the flesh.

25. • Positively, we fulfill the Ninth
Commandment when we live with a
purity of heart, of the virtue of chastity.
• This calling is for all the faithful, not
only for selected few such as the
priests and religious.
• Chastity refers to the wholesome
integration of one’s sexuality within
one’s persons which creates in us an
inner harmony and unity of body and
spirit that grounds our integrity as
persons and in our self-giving in love
(CFC 1093, CCC 2337-2347).

26. Sins against Ninth
Commandment

27. Lust: is the disordered desire for
or inordinate enjoyment of sexual
pleasure.
Sexual pleasure: is morally disordered when
sought for itself, isolated from its procreative
and unitive purposes. Both married and single
persons must combat the solitary sexual
pleasure in masturbation to avoid
repercussions for integral growth.

28. Masturbation: is an abuse of our
sexual powers because it lacks the
sexuality’s essential relationship
which is ordered toward self-giving
love and the service of life
according to God’s design.
Fornication: is the sexual
intercourse between people not
married to each other.

29. • Homosexuals: who are struggling
in their own identity crisis must be
accepted with respect, compassion,
and sensitivity.
• All acts of unjust discrimination in
their regard should be avoided.
• These persons are called to fulfill
God’s will in their lives and, if they
are Christians, to unite to the
sacrifice of the Lord’s Cross the
difficulties they may encounter from
their condition.

30. • Pornography: consists in
removing real or simulated
sexual acts from the intimacy
of the partners, in order to
display them deliberately to
third parties.
• Prostitutions: does injury to
the dignity of the person who
engages in it, reducing the
person to an instrument of
sexual pleasure.

31. Assessment
A. Based on our discussion of human sexuality and chastity, what three things can you concretely do to grow in
chastity?
1.___________________________________________________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________________________________________________
3. ___________________________________________________________________________________
B. What three things can you avoid to grow in chastity?
1. ___________________________________________________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________________________________________________
3. ___________________________________________________________________________________

32. Assignment
Make a picture collage showing the
fulfillment of the Sixth and Ninth
Commandments. Caption it with a Bible
verse. Use a ¼ sheet of cartolina for this
activity.

33. Closing Prayer

34. Thank you so
much!
Holy Spirit Academy of Malolos
Bagong Bayan, City of Malolos, Bulacan