YOUCAT Catechism + Catechism of the Catholic Church Lesson 378
Ave Maria series
The Fifth Commandment: You shall not kill.
Why is it not permissible to take one’s own life or the lives of others?
God alone is Lord over life and death. Except in the case of legitimate self-defense of oneself or another, no one may kill another human being. [2258-2262, 2318-2320]
Psalm 51, which is attributed to King David, is a psalm of a repentance. The king had caused one of his soldiers, Uriah the Hittite, to die in battle to hide the king’s act of adultery with Bathsheba, the soldier’s wife (2 Samuel 11:14-17). In the psalm, David says in his prayer of repentance to God, “Against you, you alone have I sinned; I have done what is evil in your eyes so that you are just in your word, and without reproach in your judgment.” The repentant David won God’s merciful forgiveness and was destined to be an ancestral parent of Mary the mother of Jesus and through separate family lineage, an ancestor of Joseph, the foster father of Jesus.
An attack on life is a sacrilege committed against God. Human life is sacred; this means that it belongs to God; it is his property. Even our own life is only entrusted to us. God himself has given us the gift of life; only he may take it back from us. The Book of Exodus, translated literally, says “You shall not murder” (Exodus 20:13).
“You have heard that it was said to the men of old, ‘You shall not kill; and whoever kills shall be liable to judgment.’ But I say to you that every one who is angry with his brother shall be liable to judgment.” Matthew 5:21-22
“No one can under any circumstance claim for himself the right directly to destroy an innocent human being.” Vatican Instruction“Donum Vitae” (1987)
“The contrite and humble heart, God does not despise.”--Psalm 51:19
[2258-2262, 2318-2320]
THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT
You shall not kill. (Exodus 20:13; Compare Deuteronomy 5:17.)54 --Catechism of the Catholic Church, Second Edition
You have heard that it was said to the men of old, "You shall not kill: and whoever kills shall be liable to judgment." But I say to you that every one who is angry with his brother shall be liable to judgment. (Matthew 5:21-22.)55--CCC
2258 "Human life is sacred because from its beginning it involves the creative action of God and it remains for ever in a special relationship with the Creator, who is its sole end. God alone is the Lord of life from its beginning until its end: no one can under any circumstance claim for himself the right directly to destroy an innocent human being." (Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, instruction, Donum Vitae, intro. 5.)56--CCC
2259 In the account of Abel's murder by his brother Cain, (Compare Genesis 4:8-12.)57 Scripture reveals the presence of anger and envy in man, consequences of original sin, from the beginning of human history. Man has become the enemy of his fellow man. God declares the wickedness of this fratricide: "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the ground. And now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand." (Genesis 4:10-11.)58–CCC
2260 The covenant between God and mankind is interwoven with reminders of God's gift of human life and man's murderous violence: --CCC
For your lifeblood I will surely require a reckoning. . . . Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for God made man in his own image. (Genesis 9:5-6.)59–CCC
The Old Testament always considered blood a sacred sign of life. (Compare Leviticus 17:14.)60 This teaching remains necessary for all time. --CCC
2261 Scripture specifies the prohibition contained in the fifth commandment: "Do not slay the innocent and the righteous." (Exodus 23:7.)61 The deliberate murder of an innocent person is gravely contrary to the dignity of the human being, to the golden rule, and to the holinessof theof the Creator. The law forbidding it is universally valid: it obliges each and everyone, always and everywhere.–CCC
2262 In the Sermon on the Mount, the Lord recalls the commandment, "You shall not kill,"(Matthew 5:21.)62 and adds to it the proscription of anger, hatred, and vengeance. Going further, Christ asks his disciples to turn the other cheek, to love their enemies. (Compare Matthew 5:22-39; Mt 5:44.)63 He did not defend himself and told Peter to leave his sword in its sheath. (Compare Matthew 26:52.)64--CCC
IN BRIEF
2318 "In [God's] hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind" (Job 12:10). --CCC
2319 Every human life, from the moment of conception until death, is sacred because the human person has been willed for its own sake in the image and likeness of the living and holy God. --CCC
d the holiness of the Creator.–CCC
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