Author Topic: Going to restaurants on Sundays. (Read 17958 times)

Hietanen · « **Reply #35 on:** March 08, 2011, 06:17:22 AM »

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Regarding eating out on Sundays. Only if one must do it would it be acceptable.

After Mass, Im hungry. Therefore, I must eat or I'll starve. It's that simple. I want to be able to make it home and be able to come back NEXT Sunday in order to fulfill my weekly obligation.

Hietanen, would you prevent someone from feeding the hungry (which is btw a corporal work of mercy)?

No, to help others (spiritually ans bodily), is always a work that is licit and acceptable, as I pointed out on the post.
The sick need to be tented, the hungry need to be feed.

Now, as I said, if you HAVE to eat out, because of necessity because of your (acceptable) work on a Sunday, for example, it would be licit. Another example, as you pointed out, is if you starve.
But I don't think you'll starve, as your excuse was, that is just ridiculous. Restaurants weren't even open on Sundays in many Countries and towns before the Vatican II revolution. People then managed to survive, and the rules of fasting before mass back then was much more strict than today.

Hietanen · « **Reply #36 on:** March 08, 2011, 06:25:38 AM »

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That was a crazy post. It being a mortal sin to eat out on Sunday is your opinion. No proof has ever been provided that it's a sin to eat out on Sunday. Are you the same person who posted that thread a while back about it being a mortal sin to watch sports?

It is a mortal sin to work unnecessarily on Sundays. Therefore, to help others in their unnecessary work on Sundays is likewise mortally sinful. It's simple logic. Besiedes, before Vatican II in most contires and town fully Catholic, all resturants or shops was closed. Think about that.

So, if you don't have to eat out, yet do so without a just cause, you are in fact committing a mortal sin of uncharity against your neighbor, whom you are helping in his deed of a possible mortal sin for doing unnecessary work on Sundays.

Regarding pro-sports on Sundays. They have their work and get a paycheck from it, so it's a work for them too. And there are many other reasons why a Catholic shouldn't take part or watch pro-sports, if you want to read more about it, feel free to do so,

http://www.catholic-saints.net/spiritual/#Pro-sports

Jehanne · « **Reply #37 on:** March 08, 2011, 07:15:41 AM »

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So, if you don't have to eat out, yet do so without a just cause, you are in fact committing a mortal sin of uncharity against your neighbor, whom you are helping in his deed of a possible mortal sin for doing unnecessary work on Sundays.

They get paid whether we show-up or not. However, in not showing-up, we may be contributing to them, eventually, getting laid-off, losing their homes, etc. Is not the Sabbath "made for man"? Which means that if you do not have to work, great, but if you do, that's okay?

Hietanen · « **Reply #38 on:** March 08, 2011, 07:20:18 AM »

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So, if you don't have to eat out, yet do so without a just cause, you are in fact committing a mortal sin of uncharity against your neighbor, whom you are helping in his deed of a possible mortal sin for doing unnecessary work on Sundays.

They get paid whether we show-up or not. However, in not showing-up, we may be contributing to them, eventually, getting laid-off, losing their homes, etc. Is not the Sabbath "made for man"? Which means that if you do not have to work, great, but if you do, that's okay?

No, if everyone kept the sabbath, no one would be laid of. Now, since no one keeps the sabbath, they will have their work anyway. The only difference, if you don't show up, is that you are not helping him out in his sin. What other people do, is not your fault.

Jehanne. It's only okay to do work on Sundays if you work in charity, or if you help poor, feed the hungry, tend the sick, and other like work, that must be done to keep society running. Other then that is it forbidden to work on Sundays. This is a divine law, and has always been held in the Church.

Jehanne · « **Reply #39 on:** March 08, 2011, 07:51:52 AM »

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So, if you don't have to eat out, yet do so without a just cause, you are in fact committing a mortal sin of uncharity against your neighbor, whom you are helping in his deed of a possible mortal sin for doing unnecessary work on Sundays.

They get paid whether we show-up or not. However, in not showing-up, we may be contributing to them, eventually, getting laid-off, losing their homes, etc. Is not the Sabbath "made for man"? Which means that if you do not have to work, great, but if you do, that's okay?

No, if everyone kept the sabbath, no one would be laid of. Now, since no one keeps the sabbath, they will have their work anyway. The only difference, if you don't show up, is that you are not helping him out in his sin. What other people do, is not your fault.

Jehanne. It's only okay to do work on Sundays if you work in charity, or if you help poor, feed the hungry, tend the sick, and other like work, that must be done to keep society running. Other then that is it forbidden to work on Sundays. This is a divine law, and has always been held in the Church.

Some people have to work on Sunday to feed their families. And, for the restaurant industry, Sunday is a big money-making day. So, if you do not go out to eat on Sunday, all that you are doing is driving up the unemployment rate, causing more foreclosures, etc.

Yes, I agree 100% that you should not do "needless work" on Sundays, but enjoying a "meal out" (which we, as a family, cannot afford) with one's family on Sunday is nothing to feel guilty about.