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Dear brothers and sisters: In our continuing catechesis on the Ten Commandments, we turn now to the fifth: 鈥淵ou shall not kill鈥�, which reveals how precious human life is in God鈥檚 eyes; we are made in his image out of his infinitive love for us.  But we learn that there are other ways of 鈥渒illing鈥� a person: anger, insult, scorn and indifference towards others can kill, perhaps not their physical bodies, but rather the unseen spirit within them.  Although the opposite of killing might seem to be not killing, that is only a first step towards loving.  We need to do the opposite of what Cain did to Abel: we are each other鈥檚 keepers, protectors and guardians.  For this we need Christ鈥檚 love and mercy.  The commandment not to kill is a call to love and to mercy, a call to live according to the life of the Lord Jesus, who gave us life by rising to life; this life is the Father鈥檚 gift to each of us.