The Ten Commandments are divine laws but they are also invitations to discover what God can accomplish in us and through us. When we live them as our personal response to God's request to become his children, we begin to merit eternal life. To help us live the challenge of the Commandments, however, we need to practice the virtues of faith, hope, and charity.
Faith. God reveals himself to us through Scripture, through his creations, through the Catholic Church and through Jesus. Faith is our response to that revelation ------ a belief in the One Triune God as a reality. We practice faith when we entrust ourselves completely to God. Our trust is in God rather than in human beings.
Hope. When we have confidence that God walks with us each day and guides us to life with him, we have hope. Hope means believing Jesus' promises and relying on his strength instead of our own. People of hope have no use for despair or discouragement because all things are possible with God.
Love. Our greatest response to God's love for us is to love him. In fact, Jesus made love the greatest of the two great commandments (Matthew 22:37). We love God above all things for his own sake, and our neighbor as ourselves for the love of God.
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