Church commandments

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Church commandments are specific instructions of the Catholic Church that are binding for the faithful.

history

The church commandments arose in the early Middle Ages from the catechetical and confessional literature and are in part very different in number, content and order. Antoninus of Florence counts ten church commandments in 1439, in the Anglo-Saxon area (England, United States) there are six church commandments from the 19th century ( Baltimore Catechism 1885–1960), as well as the French catechisms of Fleury and Pouget. In his widespread catechism (1555), Petrus Canisius names five church commandments, as does the Spanish canon lawyer Martin Aspilcueta 1586.

The 1997 version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church names five Church commandments under No. 2042–2043:

  1. You shall on Sundays and holy days of Holy Mass devoutly attend ( " Sunday obligation ")
  2. You should confess your sins at least once a year
  3. You should receive Holy Communion at least at Easter time and when there is danger of death
  4. You should keep the required fast days
  5. You are to assist the church in its material needs

The first edition of the KKK from 1993 named the required holidays as the fourth church commandment and also added, without listing it as a further church commandment, that the faithful are obliged to “contribute to the material needs of the church according to their possibilities”. The revised Latin version of 1997 adds the requirement to observe the required holidays to the first church commandment, which then reads: "You should hear mass on the day of the Lord and the other required holidays and refrain from servile work". The Compendium of the Catechism published in 2005 also follows this method of counting.

The praise of God (no. 67 old, no. 29.7 new) summarizes the second and third Church bid and adds the support of the Church in the fifth commandment Church.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Antoninus of Florence, Summa Theologica Part I, Tit. XVII, p. 12.
  2. ^ Article "Commandments of the Church" in: www.newadvent.org
  3. ↑ Article “Gebote der Kirche”, in: Kirchenlexikon or Encyclopedia of Catholic Theology and its auxiliary sciences from 1850
  4. ↑ See article “Church Laws”, in: Lexicon for Theology and Church, Vol. 5, Col. 1513.
  5. ^ Catechism ecclesiae catolicae, 2043.

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