Author Topic: Behaviour during Holy Week (Read 699 times)

Vanessa · « **on:** April 04, 2014, 01:00:58 PM »

Can you still work during Holy Week? Are you supposed to behave different in these areas?

Mabel · « **Reply #1 on:** April 04, 2014, 01:07:18 PM »

Yes. Some people might have been given time off in the past but it is not the norm anymore.

One of the reasons for the revisions to the Holy Week rites in the 50s is because churches were empty, as employers were increasingly requiring workers to work and the concept of shift work had really begun to take hold.

holysoulsacademy · « **Reply #2 on:** April 04, 2014, 08:02:50 PM »

I know traditionally where I grew up a majority of the people would already be on leave from Friday before Palm Sunday.
But then it was a Catholic country.
Nowadays they work up to the very last minute on Holy Wednesday, and end up scrambling around to prepare themselves mentally, spiritually & physically for the coming Holy Days.
IMHO, it was better before.
It would be good to try to restore this practice, even if just within our own four walls.

Neil Obstat · « **Reply #3 on:** April 05, 2014, 01:37:31 AM »

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Any employer who doesn't respect their workers' request for time off on Rosh Hashana or Yom Kippur is immediately labeled an 'αnтι-ѕємιтє'.

There should be no problem with letting staff off early on Holy Thursday and taking Good Friday off altogether. I've known people working locally who got off early on Friday, so they could come to church at noon and stay for an hour or three. Some even went back to work, perhaps after a "long lunch break" that day, during which time they did not eat anything, since it's a day of fast and abstinence.

I have one friend whose company is owned by Lutherans, and as of last year they allowed ZERO time off for Good Friday, even though they knew what day it was. But they don't DARE apply that to any Jєωιѕн employees for High Holy Days, or Moslems for Ramadan.

Quote from: Vanessa

Can you still work during Holy Week? Are you supposed to behave different in these areas?

Time was, a lot of people took a week of vacation time for Holy Week, and it used to be called "Easter Vacation." Then the atheists and homos got in control and changed the name to "Spring Break." Then hordes of rich kids flocked to beaches in Florida to commit sins of the flesh. Now, we have the consequences of a sinful history.

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Sigismund · « **Reply #4 on:** April 08, 2014, 09:03:24 PM »

When I was an employer, I allowed my employees to take time off for their religious observances, whatever they were. I closed the business at noon on Holy Thursday and all day on Good Friday, or as we Byzantines call it, Great Friday. I occasionally had employees who wanted to work on Holy Thursday afternoon and I allowed it as long as my presence was not required. We were completely closed on Great Friday.