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You can’t evangelize if you don’t know your faith and live your faith in your home, council, community, and parish.  Here are a few basics of the Roman Catholic faith that every Knight should know.   To dive deeper into your faith or for help with daily prayer ideas, check out some of the links on the right

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Precepts of the Catholic Church

Created: Aug 07, 2025
Category: Catholicism

Precepts of the Church

The Precepts of the Church describe the minimum effort we must make in prayer and in living a moral life. All Catholics are called to move beyond the minimum by growing in love of God and love of neighbor:

I. Attendance at Mass on Sundays and Holy Days of Obligation

II. Confession of serious sin at least once a year

III. Reception of Holy Communion at least once a year during the Easter season

IV. Observance of the days of fast and abstinence

V. Providing for the needs of the Church