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Re: Is it a sin to bid on an item online on a Sunday?
« Reply #15 on: April 24, 2021, 12:09:19 PM »
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    Re: Is it a sin to bid on an item online on a Sunday?
    « Reply #16 on: April 24, 2021, 10:18:01 PM »
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    • Quote from: Matto on April 24, 2021, 11:00:55 AM
    I would say that is probably fine, or at worst venial. I don't know all the details as I was never properly taught. All I am going by is a few quotes from Saints saying it is a sin to buy and sell on Holy Days unless necessary, the Cure of Ars and St. Bernadette, with no explanation, and I just looked at the Catechism of Trent that says you should not conduct "Business" on such days without a full explanation. What I do on holy days is not buy and sell, except for food and drink. So I think going to the restaurant so your wife doesn't have to cook is fine, and I live as if it were fine, but I don't know all the details. And about the Church bookstore, I hope it is okay as the priests should know better than me, but I sometimes think about St. Bernadette.
    It's hard to see how eating at a restaurant could be even venially sinful.  If you cook at home, you're working, not getting paid, but still working.  If you eat out, that work is merely being "transferred" to someone else.  People cannot just sit and starve on Sundays, so that neither they, nor anyone else, will have to cook.  I suppose we could always cook in advance, and just warm the food up, but I think at that point it becomes scrupulous.  And then again, there is always the example of what observant Jєωs do on Shabbos, doing all the cooking in advance as I described, and using special cooking appliances to keep the food warm (and, one hopes, warm enough to kill bacteria and prevent new bacteria from emerging).  But then again, isn't dishing up the food, putting it on plates, carrying it to the dinner table (or wherever one eats), "work" as well?  Again, at that point, it becomes an exercise in scrupulosity.
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    Re: Is it a sin to bid on an item online on a Sunday?
    « Reply #17 on: April 25, 2021, 12:26:22 AM »
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    • Quote from: SimpleMan on April 24, 2021, 10:18:01 PM
    .  And then again, there is always the example of what observant Jєωs do on Shabbos, doing all the cooking in advance as I described, and using special cooking appliances to keep the food warm (and, one hopes, warm enough to kill bacteria and prevent new bacteria from emerging).  But then again, isn't dishing up the food, putting it on plates, carrying it to the dinner table (or wherever one eats), "work" as well?  Again, at that point, it becomes an exercise in scrupulosity.
    Yea, this is an example of тαℓмυdic legalism.
    If your horse fell into a pit, would you not try to get it out on the sabbath?
    The Church prohibits unnecessary servile work.
    We are not Jєωs.
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    Re: Is it a sin to bid on an item online on a Sunday?
    « Reply #18 on: April 25, 2021, 08:31:25 AM »
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    Re: Is it a sin to bid on an item online on a Sunday?
    « Reply #19 on: April 25, 2021, 10:29:23 AM »
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    • I always sanctify the Lord's Day by watching online Masses, audio, and video of Sermons. And especially any talks by Bishop
    Williamson, and Father Ripperger.
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    Re: Is it a sin to bid on an item online on a Sunday?
    « Reply #20 on: April 25, 2021, 12:47:03 PM »
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    • Quote from: RomanCatholic1953 on April 25, 2021, 10:29:23 AM
    I always sanctify the Lord's Day by watching online Masses, audio, and video of Sermons. And especially any talks by Bishop
    Williamson, and Father Ripperger.
    Do you have any Catholic masses near you?
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    Re: Is it a sin to bid on an item online on a Sunday?
    « Reply #21 on: April 25, 2021, 01:02:53 PM »
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    • Case in point, I need a spare AC adapter for my laptop.  They're available on Amazon at nominal cost.  I need one, but it is nothing that can't wait until tomorrow.  So that is what I shall do.

    If someone else would make a different decision, given the trivial cost of the item, and the trivial additional work that one more purchase would make upon an Amazon "picker", that is fine.  I'm not so much concerned with "is it a sin or not, and if so, mortal or venial?", as I am with being able to be at peace with the idea that "it wasn't even remotely necessary, and I didn't do anything to add to the tendency of apostate secular society to treat Sunday as just another day of work and production".

    My father needs dietary supplement today from Walmart, he's been drinking more of it the past couple of days, so we're out.  So in a little bit, that's where I'm headed.  He hasn't been able to take solid food in eight months, and that is what he lives on.  Compared to buying an AC adapter online, all the difference in the world.  We didn't expect him to live into the new year, and here he is, after Easter, still alive, argumentative, and convinced his son is a total numbskull who can't handle the family bills or bank accounts.  Thank God.
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    Re: Is it a sin to bid on an item online on a Sunday?
    « Reply #22 on: May 09, 2021, 04:44:29 PM »
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    • I've wondered about similar things.  Do vending machines count?  What about the parish going bowling afterwards for some eutrapalia?
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    Re: Is it a sin to bid on an item online on a Sunday?
    « Reply #23 on: May 09, 2021, 04:58:35 PM »
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    • Quote from: SimpleMan on April 25, 2021, 01:02:53 PM
    My father needs dietary supplement today from Walmart, he's been drinking more of it the past couple of days, so we're out.  So in a little bit, that's where I'm headed.  He hasn't been able to take solid food in eight months, and that is what he lives on.  Compared to buying an AC adapter online, all the difference in the world.  We didn't expect him to live into the new year, and here he is, after Easter, still alive, argumentative, and convinced his son is a total numbskull who can't handle the family bills or bank accounts.  Thank God.
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