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BSED-English 1
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Explain
What new learnings did you get from this lesson?
Everything is all about love. God establishes his laws to help us to be with Him. The decalogue
is the central summary of the basic rules of human behavior in the Old Testament. While the
Beatitude helps us to be a good Christian. It helps us to attain happiness in life. These two are
gifts of God to us. We should follow it to be with Him eternally.
Elaborate
What God commands He makes possible by His grace.
God gives us commandments to follow. He gave us this set of laws to guide our life. It
helps us to discover once more that God loved us so much and He didn’t want us to be far from
Him. With the help of His grace, we can achieve to love Him by following these
commandments. Everything is possible with the help of His grace.
Evaluate:
I. Test your knowledge:
A. What does “Decalogue” mean?
Decalogue means “Ten Words”, from Greek deka=ten and logos=word.
B. What does Beatitude mean?
Beatitudes are the eight, the solemn blessings which mark the opening of the Sermon
on the Mount, the very first of Our Lord’s sermons in the Gospel of St. Matthew. It means
blessed or happy.
C. Explain the nature of the Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes?
Ten commandments
The “commandments” are literally “words” of freedom. How often do we grasp that
reality? For the Israelites, they were gaining freedom from 400 years of slavery. And the ten
“words” were instructions that followed and were designed to protect their freedom. The
purpose of these laws was to shape the life of the people of God.
The Beatitudes
The Beatitudes depict the countenance of Jesus Christ and portray his charity. They
express the vocation of the faithful associated with the glory of his Passion and Resurrection;
they shed light on the actions and attitudes characteristic of the Christian life; they are the
paradoxical promises that sustain hope amid tribulations; they proclaim the blessings and
rewards already secured, however dimly, for Christ’s disciples; they have begun in the lives of
the Virgin Mary and all the saints.