Świętowanie w pedagogice prawa kanonicznego i prawa polskiego

Abstract

Celebration is an inseparable element of human life. The paper aims to answer two following questions: 1) Do the two systems of laws, i.e., canon law and Polish law, educate people regarding the need of celebration, and 2) How do they do that? To answer these questions, appropriate norms from the systems of law are quoted, described and analyzed. The first part of the article presents the educational tasks of law, in general. Every law, the canon law in particular, tends to influence the life of the society and to change it according to legislators will and, through this, to instruct and tutor community on how to live and, as a consequence, on how to celebrate. The next part deals with church law and shows the norms ordering when and how Christs faithful must celebrate. It also describes the sanctions in forum internum for not observing such rules. The following part is dedicated to Polish law. First, the law sources of the obligation in question are presented and days of celebration are listed. Then the ways of protecting the possibility of celebration by the addressees of law are described. The article ends with the recapitulation and conclusions. Summing up, it can be said that the two systems of law, i.e., canon law and Polish law, educate and edify people in regard to celebration.