THE CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH (50 pts) ~ Pt.44: The 9th and 10th Commandments

"With this hour we will conclude our presentation on the ten commandments. The 9th Commandment concerns not coveting your neighbor's wife, nine and ten kind of go together, they concern covetousness, two of the passages from Sacred Scripture that apply are: your neighbour's house or your neighbor's wife, his maid or servant, or anything that's your neighbour's. The 9th Commandment deals specifically with not coveting your neighbor's wife. What it deals with in general is not just covetousness but purity in general. Saint John distinguishes three kinds of covetousness or concupiscence: Lust of the flesh; Lust of the eyes; Pride of life. That comes from the first letter of John, chapter two, verse sixteen. Now in Catholic catechetical tradition, the 9th Commandment forbids carnal concupiscence, and the 10th concerns our neighbor's goods. Etymologically, that fancy word etymology concerns the study of words, the origin and derivation of words. Concupiscence can refer to any intense form of human desire. Christian theology has given it a particular meaning: the movement of the sensitive appetite contrary to the operation of human reason. Now we know that with Original Sin there was a certain disorder set in motion, that with the commission of Original Sin and that Original Sin being passed on by generation we all inherited..only Our Blessed Mother was the only human person who didn't have Original Sin.. but that's a consequence, you know there are consequences of that Original Sin. We have a tendency towards personal sin, there's a kind of a movement, a tension, a gravitation towards sin because of Original Sin."