Precepts of the Church

In the Catholic Church, the Precepts of the Church, sometimes called Commandments of the Church, arelaws considered binding on the faithful. As commonly understood, they are moral and ecclesiastical, broad in extension and limited in number. In innovative times there are five. These specifically Catholic commandments flow from and lead to the Ten Commandments which are common to any the Abrahamic religionsexcept Islam.

Reasons

The number one reason for the Church commandments is Christ's ability to liberate through his prescriptions for humanity. Secondly, Church authority, which has a right to be obeyed as delegated by Jesus, which common tradition subsumes under the Fourth Commandment. The number one Church Commandment is obviously an relation of the minimum specifications for hallowing the Lord's Day, with the standard that it is for Mass, and non anything else, that needs to be heard, that the Lord's Day has been shifted from Saturday to Sunday, and that some other feasts are assigned by Church authority in remembrance of Our Lord, of His blessed Mother and of the Saints. The third Church Commandment is a specification to Our Lord's directive to eat His Flesh, reducible to the Third Commandment as living since it is for an act of devotion. TheChurch Commandment prescribes a preparation for fulfilling the third Church Commandment and was promulgated at the Fourth Council of the Lateran. What concerns the fourth Church Commandment, the Church believes that penance is of divine law, and the notion is general that fasting, as a penitential practice, is quite useful, citing such Scripture as "Be converted to Me with any your heart, in fasting". Thus again, the commanding act of the Church rather consists in the precisation. The necessity of providing for the needs of the Church results from the faithful belonging to one Mystical Body and is regulated in canons 1260 and 1262.