But why did blue laws exist? In Protestant lands, it was to “observe the Sabbath” and “get thee to church.” But Catholic lands had blue laws, too, to “observe the Sabbath”…but in a broader, more global sense.
All this is a build up to my endorsement of a new book by Daniel Fitzpatrick, Restoring the Lord’s Day: How Reclaiming Sunday Can Revive Our Human Nature. I especially want to emphasize the subtitle.
This book stands out because it’s more than what one might expect in a Catholic book: “you should keep the Lord’s Day because God said so and not enough people go to church!” That’s true—but Fitzpatrick goes far beyond that.
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