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Offline LeDeg

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Moving and preparing home on Sunday allowed?
« on: April 28, 2021, 01:01:22 PM »
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    • My family and I are putting our home up for sale and moving in the next couple of weeks. Are we allowed to prepare and pack on Sunday's? Does this count as "unnecessary" work? We run our own business and don't have much time to set aside to do what needs to be done to prepare it for sale pack our belongings. We naturally would not miss Mass on Sundays. Thoughts?
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    Re: Moving and preparing home on Sunday allowed?
    « Reply #1 on: April 28, 2021, 01:14:32 PM »
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    • Quote from: LeDeg on April 28, 2021, 01:01:22 PM
    My family and I are putting our home up for sale and moving in the next couple of weeks. Are we allowed to prepare and pack on Sunday's? Does this count as "unnecessary" work? We run our own business and don't have much time to set aside to do what needs to be done to prepare it for sale pack our belongings. We naturally would not miss Mass on Sundays. Thoughts?
    For something like this, I'd probably ask my confessor. 
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    Re: Moving and preparing home on Sunday allowed?
    « Reply #2 on: April 28, 2021, 01:45:41 PM »
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    • And what if you have no other choice? When I was in college, my parents helped me unpack and move; literally the only day they could do it was Sundays. They worked the rest of the week.
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    Re: Moving and preparing home on Sunday allowed?
    « Reply #3 on: April 28, 2021, 02:19:21 PM »
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    • This from a commentary on the 1917 CIC

    https://archive.org/details/newcanonlaw00woywuoft/page/14/mode/2up?view=theater

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    "By custom introduced from time immemorial and confirmed by Canon 1245, pastors can dispense their parishioners in individual cases from the fast and abstinence and from the law forbidding servile work on Sundays and holidays of obligation.(Canon 82)"
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    Re: Moving and preparing home on Sunday allowed?
    « Reply #4 on: April 28, 2021, 06:30:48 PM »
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    • It is a needed work to do.  
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    Re: Moving and preparing home on Sunday allowed?
    « Reply #5 on: April 28, 2021, 11:29:39 PM »
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    • Quote from: LeDeg on April 28, 2021, 01:01:22 PM
    My family and I are putting our home up for sale and moving in the next couple of weeks. Are we allowed to prepare and pack on Sunday's? Does this count as "unnecessary" work? We run our own business and don't have much time to set aside to do what needs to be done to prepare it for sale pack our belongings. We naturally would not miss Mass on Sundays. Thoughts?

    With the help of the Holy Ghost you know what is necessary and what not.
    And don't ask any "confessor" who doesn't have true (versus invented) apostolic authority.
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