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THE TENTH COMMANDMENT: YOU SHALL NOT COVET YOUR NEIGHBOR’S POSSESSIONS 531. What is required and what is forbidden by the tenth commandment? 2534-2540 2551-2554 This commandment, which completes the preceding commandment, requires an interior attitude of respect for the property of others and forbids greed, unbridled covetousness for the goods of others, and envy which is the sadness one experiences at the sight of another’s goods and the immoderate desire to acquire them for oneself. 532. What does Jesus call for in poverty of spirit? 2544-2547 2556 Jesus calls his disciples to prefer him to everything and everyone. Detachment from riches – in the spirit of evangelical poverty – and self-abandonment to divine providence free us from anxiety about the future and prepare us for the blessedness of the “poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven” (Mathew 5:3). 533. What is the greatest human desire? 2548-2550 2557 The greatest desire of the human person is to see God. “I want to see God” is the cry of our whole being. We realize our true and full happiness in the vision and beatitude of the One who created us out of love and draws us to himself with infinite love. “Whoever sees God has obtained all the goods of which he can conceive.” (Saint Gregory of Nyssa)