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Offline Catholic Samurai

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« Reply #15 on: March 06, 2011, 08:32:19 PM »
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     Sunday was spent at Grandma's after Church.


    And that's what I hate about my Sundays.  :facepalm:
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    « Reply #16 on: March 06, 2011, 09:29:23 PM »
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     Sunday was spent at Grandma's after Church.


    And that's what I hate about my Sundays.  :facepalm:
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    I hear you. I was glad that we didn't live near my grandmother's when we were growing up. She was a flaming ecuŠ¼enist.
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    « Reply #17 on: March 06, 2011, 09:38:29 PM »
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    •  :facepalm:  Hey!  I'm a grandma!     :ready-to-eat:
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    « Reply #18 on: March 06, 2011, 11:08:20 PM »
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    I think it might be one person who ignores people for no reason just to push buttons. My 2nd ignore came from nowhere too.
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    « Reply #19 on: March 06, 2011, 11:35:13 PM »
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    « Reply #20 on: March 07, 2011, 12:52:50 AM »
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    • I discovered my ignore after a period of absence. It felt like I'd finally been accepted after moving to a country town 20 years ago. I really cherish it and strangely enough have posted a few times recently, too.

    Then there's the matter of my beautiful flag not displaying any more. Problem there is that I can't ignore the bloke who did that to me, LOL.

    Back on track, this is an interesting topic. I don't go out shopping etc on Sunday, but must own up to breakfast on the way home - probably the result of not considering my actions enough.
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    « Reply #21 on: March 07, 2011, 07:17:53 AM »
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    And I see someone is now ignoring me.  I wonder who I annoyed.


    Yea, me too.
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    « Reply #22 on: March 07, 2011, 01:29:51 PM »
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    I was invited to go to a restaurant today after Mass at CMRI.  I don't go out to eat on Sunday because it keeps people working for unnecessary reasons ( I'll get gas, since gas stations need to be open on Sunday for many legitimate reasons ).  

    One friend of mine, who is eighty, told me that in the 40's and 50's, towns were absolutely dead on Sunday.  That was all I needed to hear, since then I haven't gone out to eat on that day.

    Result:  I was told I have scruples, that all the priests go to restaurants on Sundays.  It is true that I seem to be the only one there who has this rule.

    Do you go to restaurants on Sundays?  Discuss.


    You do have scruples.  The admonition to not work on a Sunday applies to hard labor type work - it does not apply to doing work which is light, such as cleaning the house, studying, working in your gardens, etc.  It is also completely acceptable to earn money from your labor on a Sunday.
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    « Reply #23 on: March 07, 2011, 04:14:22 PM »
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    You do have scruples.  The admonition to not work on a Sunday applies to hard labor type work - it does not apply to doing work which is light, such as cleaning the house, studying, working in your gardens, etc.  It is also completely acceptable to earn money from your labor on a Sunday.


    The way you describe it seems to lax.  Even the stock exchanges still take off on Sunday.  Opening a shop on Sunday?

    As many posters have mentioned - in the past most businesses were closed.

    The source I saw stated that sewing was out.  If plowing was forbidden I don't see how one can take a roto-tiller to their garden on Sunday.  Or mow the lawn.  Or do a thorough cleaning of the house from top to bottom.

    All those are fairly servile occupations.




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    « Reply #24 on: March 07, 2011, 04:36:16 PM »
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    • I once asked an SSPX priest if it was a sin to eat out on Sunday and he said no, it was not. Every Sunday after Mass a group of us go out to eat at a diner. Sometimes the priest comes with us.
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    « Reply #25 on: March 07, 2011, 05:21:16 PM »
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    • Jamie said:
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    The admonition to not work on a Sunday applies to hard labor type work - it does not apply to doing work which is light, such as cleaning the house, studying, working in your gardens, etc.


    Yeah, I clean the house a bit on Sunday, I'll do laundry or whatever is urgently pressing.  But what, pray tell, does that have to do with working in a restaurant?  

    Jamie, working in a restaurant all day, up on your feet, lugging trays back and forth could easily be classified under hard labor.  It's far harder labor than tending to sheep, which was considered to be working on the Sabbath.  What, does hard labor only qualify as working in a saw mill or something, or in a mine, or fixing cars?  The point is, it's a day of rest and meditation.

    What about walking the dog on Sunday?  I figure that's okay because it would be just like going out for a stroll yourself, which is certainly not forbidden.  Except walking my dog feels like labor.  She needs long walks and I'm sweating at the end of it.

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    It is also completely acceptable to earn money from your labor on a Sunday.


    Yeah, if you have to.  It's not desirable though.  Anyway, that's not the question I'm asking.  If God allows a man to provide for his family by working on Sunday when he has no other choice, that doesn't mean that I personally, who do have a choice, have to go to a restaurant and support labor on Sunday.  

    I'm surprised that no one has mentioned Fatima.  Probably everyone here is a bigger fan of that apparition than I am, and if that was really Mary, she said that the disrespect of the Sabbath was one of the main offenses that was bringing down God's wrath.
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    « Reply #26 on: March 07, 2011, 05:43:40 PM »
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    "I once asked an SSPX priest if it was a sin to eat out on Sunday and he said no, it was not. Every Sunday after Mass a group of us go out to eat at a diner. Sometimes the priest comes with us.


    Oh really Matto?  

    Here, this is from one of your early posts where you were describing your ideal Catholic monarchy, sounding much like our erstwhile member the "Great Monarch" with the same mocking, exaggerated tone ( saying that women who wore pants would be flogged, etc. )

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    "Unnecessary work on Sunday would be prohibited and stores would all be closed on Sunday, even if they were owned by Jews or other non-believers."


    Let me guess, you'd close the stores but restaurants are okay?  
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    « Reply #27 on: March 07, 2011, 05:55:08 PM »
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    • The way it was explained to me, its UNnecessary work, some work is necessary, in fact isn't there a story in the Bible about something about an animal falling into a pit, and discussion about working to get it out.  

    When you have a job, and it becomes necessary to  hold that job working on a Sunday, I believe God considers it necessary.  Cooking is necessary, nursing is necessary, keeping things running in the world is necessary.  

    All of you who go to the poor grandmothers house on Sunday, did you ever think how hard she is working?

    Our priest do not agree with doing gardening on Sunday, even if it for enjoyment. I believe the reason was scandal.    

    Recreation is okay.  However if those who feel it is so wrong to eat out on Sunday, probably would feel it wrong also to play golf, go bowling or even to a good movie, or play, if you can find one, because by going, you might be causing someone else to work.  Even getting gas, might be causing the gas station attendent to work.    
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    « Reply #28 on: March 07, 2011, 05:57:25 PM »
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    • I guess there is a difference between unnecessary shopping and eating at a restaurant because eating is necessary, even on Sunday. Thank you for digging up my old if I were king post, Raoul.
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    « Reply #29 on: March 07, 2011, 06:16:16 PM »
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    I think it might be one person who ignores people for no reason just to push buttons. My 2nd ignore came from nowhere too.


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