1. Opening hymn.
2. Recitation of the "Our Father".
3. A reading from the Bible: Mt 19, 16-22.
4. A reading from the Teaching of the Church:
1. 'Teacher, what good deed must I do, to have eternal life?' To the young man who asked this question, Jesus answers first by invoking the necessity to recognize God as the 'One there is who is good', as the supreme Good and the source of all good. Then Jesus tells him: 'If you would enter life, keep the commandments.' 'You shall not kill, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness, Honor your father and your mother.' Finally Jesus sums up these commandments positively: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' (CCC, 2052).
2. Therefore, following Jesus Christ requires keeping his Commandments: "Not all those who say, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but those who do the will of my Father". The Commandments are contained in the so-called "Decalogue"-which means "ten words"-that summarize and proclaim God's law. For this reason, the Magisterium of the Church teaches that it is necessary to keep the Ten Commandments in order to obtain salvation because they express man's fundamental duties towards God and neighbor, and reveal his grave obligations in this regard: for example, the protection and inviolability of life, respect for indissoluble mutual conjugal self-giving, the duty to procreate and educate children
3. The commandments get their full meaning within the New Covenant, for it is in this context of correspondence to God's fidelity where human action takes on its meaning. So moral existence is the "response" to the Lord's loving initiative expressed in his Covenant: it is recognition, homage and cooperation with the design God pursues in history. Therefore, the commandments must be considered not only as precepts, but also as a joyful possibility to respond to God's will.
4. The first three commandments state the requirements of God's love; the remaining ones refer to the requirements of love of neighbor. They teach us the true humanity of man: that is, they highlight the essential duties and thus the fundamental rights inherent in the human person. Even though the human mind can attain knowledge of these commandments on its own, given man's sinful condition, he needs God's Revelation to attain complete and certain knowledge of this natural law.
5. Parents' respectful and religious attitude towards God's Law lets their children perceive in their hearts who the real author and lawmaker is of natural law and the divine precepts. It is very helpful in forming children's right conscience if the parents are capable of distinguishing in their behavior between what is commanded by God's Law and what is left to each person's free decision since not everything falls under the precept of divine law. Moreover, if parents recognize their errors and omissions of God's Law properly, they will contribute to their children's recognition of their own in a climate of sincerity, without having recourse to easy excuses or unhealthy guilt.
6. Parents transmit adherence to the commandments to their children when they develop and apply the demands of each commandment by taking advantage of family or social events and helping them to apply the theoretical knowledge they have acquired to personal circumstances. In this way parents perfect in a practical way the institutional catechesis and religious instruction given at school.
5. Reflections of the leader.
6. Dialogue:
7. Commitments.
8. Recitation of the "Hail Mary" and invocation: "Regina familiae. Ora pro nobis".
9. Prayer for the family: O God, you put the fullness of the Law in love of you and of neighbor. Grant us to keep your commandments so that we may attain eternal life. Through Jesus Christ Our Lord.
10. Closing hymn.