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communal act of self-denial to. witness to — and participate in — the suffering of Christ on Good Friday. With the true purpose of abstaining from meat lost, some Catholics actually looked forward to Friday as a lobster feast day! When we lose sight of the true purpose of the law of Christ, the observance of law can easily become routine and barren.
Legalism has led other Catholics to reduce the Church's moral teaching to a collection of mere rules and regulations. These Catholics hold that the Church's teaching authority is limited to dearly “infallible" teachings. If certain teachings are particularly unpleasant and are not expressly “infallible,” these Catholics hold that there can be compelling reasons based on “love” to disregard the teaching.
This kind of legalism is not new-. When the Lord reveals to His Apostles that he must go to Jerusalem and be put to death, Peter objects. The teaching was too hard to
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