Ave Maria Radio presents Christ is the answer with Father John Ricardo.

Knowing Jesus is the best gift that any person can receive.

That we've encountered him as the best thing that's happened in our lives,

and making him known by our word and deeds is our greatest joy.

The first three commandments pertain to our relationship with God. They oblige us. and making him known by our word and deeds is our greatest joy.

The first three commandments pertain to our relationship with God.

They oblige us to recognize God as our Lord and Master.

With the Fourth, we enter into a new relationship with God.

These last commandments synthesize morality,

our duties toward others as we live out our duties toward God.

Here is Father John Ricardo.

So tonight, obviously, is the Fourth Commandment.

Honor your father and mother.

I've left in ellipsis there.

Does anybody know why?

Is that the commandment?

Or is there more?

What's the more?

There's a promise attached to it.

Honor your father and mother so that your days may be long in the land the Lord is giving to you.

It's the first commandment to have a promise connected to it.

It's really the only commandment, at least out of the ten, that has a promise connected to it.

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