30. Loving God above all

30. LOVING GOD ABOVE ALL
THE FIRST THREE COMMANDMENTS PERTAIN TO OUR DUTY TO LOVE GOD WITH OUR ENTIRE BEING
Compendium 434-454 Exodus 2:2-17 Matthew 19:16-19
By becoming one of us Jesus revealed the love of his Father for each of us. The Ten Commandments given to Moses, is God's covenant with his chosen people, Israel, and universally apply to all people of all times not as a restriction but rather a pathway to freedom and happiness as children of our infinitely loving and merciful Father. Jesus, in his words and life summed up the Ten Commandments into two: Love God with your whole being and your neighbor as yourself.  "I Am the Lord your God. You shall not have other God's before me. We live the first commandment through the virtues of Faith, Hope, and Charity. With faith we reject heresy, apostasy, and schism, as well as presumption and despair. Charity demands that we love God above all things and that we reject ingratitude and indifference and false pride which leads to hatred of God and our fellow man. With freedom we must prayerfully search for God and avoid the modern false God's of Power, Money and Pleasure. Demon worship and superstition are enemies of God. Aggressive atheism ridicules God and practical atheism ignores God. Idols and false images are forbidden but true images of Jesus and the saints remind us of heavenly realities and are not worshiped in themselves.
God's name is Holy and we should only use in blessings and honoring him. Never should we curse or swear with his name. Genesis tells us that God rested on the Sabbath as a covenant that man should use this day in thanksgiving for all creation. We must obey the Sabbath with rest from worldly pursuits and devote time to  our relation with God and one another. The Sabbath is celebrated on Sunday because this is the day of the Resurrection of Jesus.
it is the first and most important precept of the Church to attend Mass every Sunday. The Eucharist must be the center of our lives so we are able to live the Commandments in the spirit of the beatitudes.