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Offline Ladislaus

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Re: Sunday Shopping - What Is The Catholic Ideal?
« Reply #15 on: October 28, 2018, 07:18:04 PM »
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    • Quote from: Seraphina on October 28, 2018, 07:00:15 PM
    Gas stations wouldn't need to be open because there would be a readily accessible church nearby within walking distance.  The only people to drive would be those who can't walk, elderly, handicapped, moms with babies.
    I don't like the idea of extremely expensive gas because there are definitely some traditional Catholics who drive long distances and cannot get to mass and back on one tank of gas.

    Sounds like you're mixing scenarios ... one in which everybody would walk to Mass and then another where people had to drive long distances to get to Mass.

    Those days where everybody could walk to Mass are long gone, and this would only be the case in large urban areas where there used to be Catholic churches every few blocks.  What you can get to by car in 10 minutes might take 45 minutes to walk.
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    Offline Miseremini

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    Re: Sunday Shopping - What Is The Catholic Ideal?
    « Reply #16 on: October 28, 2018, 08:12:18 PM »
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    • What about needing gas for visiting?  Before TV and cell phones people actually visited family,friends, the elderly and the cemetary on Sundays.
    And don't forget Sunday picnics in the country.
    We still do.
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    Re: Sunday Shopping - What Is The Catholic Ideal?
    « Reply #17 on: October 28, 2018, 09:16:00 PM »
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    • MASS blue laws - restaurants, some gas stations, drug stores, hospitals, police, fire, all open on Sunday.  Plazas all closed - empty parking lots.  The men stayed in shirts and ties until at least after lunch.  Ladies stayed in their Mass outfits as well.  In the afternoon you visited relatives, children played, etc.  But no washing your car on the street, housework, lawn mowing, etc. There was indeed a Sunday Silence. 
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    Re: Sunday Shopping - What Is The Catholic Ideal?
    « Reply #18 on: October 30, 2018, 11:24:22 AM »
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    • Thanks for a all the great replies. I don't think pubs opened all day in the old days in British Isles, where I am based.

    Now it's gone the total opposite: any and all shops that want to open, can, for most of the day i.e. the pubs are open until 10.30pm, I think? Pity the workers!

    I am still not sure if I am justified in going to the pub in the late evening on a Sunday here in London. I will re-read the replies above.

    I think concessions were made to people's weaknesses, in the old days. I just want to know what would be pleasing to Christ; what would he find proper, if he could enact a law, directly?
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