What is the purpose of the precepts of the Church, and how binding are they?
The “Five Precepts of the Church” with their minimum requirements are supposed to remind us that one cannot be a Christian without making a moral effort, without participating personally in the sacramental life of the Church, and without union with her in solidarity. They are obligatory for every Catholic Christian. [2041, 2048]
Fr. Ed Hauf, OMI greets parishioners after mass at St. Mary's in downtown San Antonio...346
Hypocrisy implies a double standard in the morality that one practices publicly or implicitly. Externally a hypocritical person advocates goals and values that he does not respect privately. “Little children, let us not love in word or speech but in deed and in truth”. 1 John 3:18
[2041, 2048]
THE PRECEPTS OF THE CHURCH
2041 The precepts of the Church are set in the context of a moral life bound to and nourished by liturgical life. The obligatory character of these positive laws decreed by the pastoral authorities is meant to guarantee to the faithful the very necessary minimum in the spirit of prayer and moral effort, in the growth in love of God and neighbor. –Catechism of the Catholic Church, Second Edition
IN BRIEF
2048 The precepts of the Church concern the moral and Christian life united with the liturgy and nourished by it. –CCC
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