Truth Of The Spirit

This episode of Truth of the Spirit with Patti Brunner reminds us that we are not alone in our relationship with God.  We are not alone in the Church.  And so we need to know how to get along with each other in the Church.  That’s why God, through the Fathers of the Church, gave all Christians rules to follow.  These Church rules are called Canon Law.   The Lord is the Master Builder of the kingdom of God.  Canon law provides a blueprint.  It is not the kingdom itself but a way to best bring the different elements together in proper order and place.  Sometimes people need to be told what to do for their own good.  Following the regiment of Canon Law thus keeps the Church from generations to generation strong as family. Christian duty involves action toward the whole Church, the whole world, your whole family and to yourself.  In the commandments and the precepts you see the basic understanding of duty.  In 1913 and 1983, when the Church took a fresh look at the Church Fathers they then called to mind the duti