Obligations days

[LilyM]

And the souls who ate meat on a non-lent Friday, when all Fridays of the year were days of abstinence?

They were disobedient, disobedience to the Church which has the power to bind and loose is sinful.

Just as it would be a sin for a child to disobey their parents and break a 10pm curfew. This is so even if that child’s best friend’s parents set a midnight curfew for the friend, or no curfew at all. And this is true even if that child’s own parents change their mind the next day and make the curfew midnight as well. The point is obedience to legitimate authority and legitimate commands.

Disobedience can be mortal sin assuming the conditions of full knowledge and free consent to sin are met. HDOs, as well as fasting and abstinence when required, are what are called ‘precepts of the Church’ - we are bound to obey if possible, on pain of mortal sin.

 

[thistle]

Hi,
I hope this is the correct place. Can sombody answer the question as to why the Church has set up days of obligations?
Not that I mind i like those feast days but why must one go to mass and if we miss because we dont feel like going its a sin.

Apart from Sundays which are days of obligation there are not many other days of obligation and in a lot of countries even some of these have been moved to the nearest Sunday so attending is not onerous at all.
Also, remember that not all feast days are days of obligation.