Author Topic: Going to restaurants on Sundays. (Read 17975 times)

Raoul76 · « **Reply #25 on:** March 07, 2011, 05:21:16 PM »

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.

Jamie said:

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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.

Raoul76 · « **Reply #26 on:** March 07, 2011, 05:43:40 PM »

Matto said:

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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. )

Matto said:

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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?

MyrnaM · « **Reply #27 on:** March 07, 2011, 05:55:08 PM »

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.

Matto · « **Reply #28 on:** March 07, 2011, 05:57:25 PM »

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.

Sigismund · « **Reply #29 on:** March 07, 2011, 06:16:16 PM »

Quote from: Matthew

Quote from: Alex
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And I see someone is now ignoring me. I wonder who I annoyed.

I think it might be one person who ignores people for no reason just to push buttons. My 2nd ignore came from nowhere too.

My advice to anyone would be: anything under 5 ignores, I'd just "ignore it".
Consider 5 and under to be "low" ignores.

Ignore count only means something when you get up to 10 or more...you have to be un-appealing to a wide variety of people to achieve that :)

Matthew

Well, that gives me something to shoot for. :)