Comments on: For the Love of Neighbor http://catechistsjourney.loyolapress.com/2009/03/30/for-the-love-of-neighbor/ Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:31:04 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Joe http://catechistsjourney.loyolapress.com/2009/03/30/for-the-love-of-neighbor/comment-page-1/#comment-1285 Joe Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:54:30 +0000 http://catechistsjourney.loyolapress.com/?p=1051#comment-1285 Hi Kris and thanks for your thoughts. I agree that bullying can also fall under the Commandment about bearing false witness, especially when bullying takes a verbal form. Just to clarify for folks, as far as the "numbering" of the Commandments: when I refer to the 5th Commandment, I'm referring to "You Shall Not Kill," and I would consider "You Shall Not Bear False Witness Against Your Neighbor" as the 8th Commandment, rather than the 9th. This would be the traditional Catholic numbering of the Commandments. The Jewish tradition and many Protestant traditions have as the 2nd Commandment: "You shall not make for yourself a graven image" thus bumping all the rest down one and then combining what Catholics consider the 9th and 10th Commandments into one: "You shall not covet your nieghbor's wife; you shall not covet anything that belongs to your neighbor." A good explanation of this can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Commandments#Division_of_the_Exodus_20_Commandments Hi Kris and thanks for your thoughts. I agree that bullying can also fall under the Commandment about bearing false witness, especially when bullying takes a verbal form.

Just to clarify for folks, as far as the “numbering” of the Commandments: when I refer to the 5th Commandment, I’m referring to “You Shall Not Kill,” and I would consider “You Shall Not Bear False Witness Against Your Neighbor” as the 8th Commandment, rather than the 9th. This would be the traditional Catholic numbering of the Commandments. The Jewish tradition and many Protestant traditions have as the 2nd Commandment: “You shall not make for yourself a graven image” thus bumping all the rest down one and then combining what Catholics consider the 9th and 10th Commandments into one: “You shall not covet your nieghbor’s wife; you shall not covet anything that belongs to your neighbor.” A good explanation of this can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Commandments#Division_of_the_Exodus_20_Commandments

]]> By: Kris http://catechistsjourney.loyolapress.com/2009/03/30/for-the-love-of-neighbor/comment-page-1/#comment-1284 Kris Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:39:51 +0000 http://catechistsjourney.loyolapress.com/?p=1051#comment-1284 HI Joe, Thank you so much for sharing so many wonderful tools :) I loved your idea of applying bullying to the context of the 5th commandment. YOu requested any other ideas re:bullying and the commandments. I do a bullying workshop and use the 9th commandment about bearing false witness, and spend some time talking about the damage that spreading stories does. You can even go into the name of the sins committed when bearing false witness, such as calumny. An unusual word for an all too common practice among our young people. Thanks again :) HI Joe,

Thank you so much for sharing so many wonderful tools :)

I loved your idea of applying bullying to the context of the 5th commandment. YOu requested any other ideas re:bullying and the commandments. I do a bullying workshop and use the 9th commandment about bearing false witness, and spend some time talking about the damage that spreading stories does. You can even go into the name of the sins committed when bearing false witness, such as calumny. An unusual word for an all too common practice among our young people.

Thanks again :)

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