When we hear about religious laws, or religious rules and regulations we don’t think of them in terms of joy and freedom, but as something narrow, narrow-minded, restrictive, exclusive, like building walls against people telling some people they can’t come to communion or other people they can’t get married, and so on. Of course the church’s laws are sometimes confused with divine laws. And this is a very important point, which the church has always recognised. There are two kinds of laws. One is those which are created by the institutional church, and which change over time. And then there are the deeper laws, the real laws of God which are built into the very fabric of reality and of our nature and so are changeless.
( Breakthrough by Laurence Freeman OSB )
