10. YOU SHALL NOT DESIRE YOUR NEIGHBOR’S HOUSE… OR ANYTHING THAT IS YOUR NEIGHBOR’S
Develops and complements the 9th Commandment. It prohibits the desire for foreign property, which is the root of theft, fraud, gambling. It leads to injustice and hatred.
It refers to the intention of the heart. Together with the 9th Commandment, it summarizes all the commands of the law.
- Greed – has its origins in idolatry
- Avarice
- Disordered lust
- The desire for wealth, power
- The desire to appropriate the good without measure
- It prohibits any damage to neighbor’s earthly possessions
- Unjustly acquired heritage – I have a duty of redress towards siblings
- I wish others hardship
- Doctors who wish diseases
- Lawyers longing for important and numerous lawsuits and processes
- Envy – sorrow over the good of one’s neighbor
- If I wish my neighbor a great evil – I commit a mortal sin
- Clinging to wealth, property
- If I find solace in the abundance of possessions, money
Repent, keep the commanded fasts (abstain from fleshy food)
- Ash Wednesday and Good Friday – strict fasting (only once a day you can eat to the full, in addition, you can only eat twice a little) – except for children and adults over 60 years.
- Abstaining from meat and eating meat products every Friday and on Ash Wednesday – all from the age of 14 until death.
- Those who have to eat meat on Fridays (for health reasons – diabetics…) – should in addition perform some other act of repentance, piety or love (attend Holy Mass, read Holy Scripture, pray rosary, Stations of the Cross, visiting the sick, helping one’s neighbor…)
