YOUCAT Lesson 366
YOUCAT the catechism for Catholic youth
366 Why is it important for
the State to preserve Sunday?
Sunday is a genuine service to the good of society, because
it is a sign of opposition to the total absorption of man by the working world.
[2188, 2192-2193]
Family lawn game at the Don L Bragg home near
Rhinelander, WI. …..366
Therefore in lands that have a Christian character,
Christians not only demand the governmental preservation of Sunday, they also
do not ask others to do work that they themselves do not want to do on
Sunday. Everyone in creation should take
part in this “breather”.
“What does Sunday cost us?
The very question is already a decisive attack on Sunday. For Sunday is Sunday precisely because it
costs nothing, in the economic sense.
The question of what preserving it as a work-free day (that has a)
“cost” presupposes that we have already conceptually turned Sunday into a
workday.” Robeart Spaemann (b. 1927,
German philosopher)
[2188, 2192-2193]
II. THE LORD'S DAY
A day of grace and
rest from work
2188 In respecting religious liberty and the
common good of all, Christians should seek recognition of Sundays and the
Church's holy days as legal holidays. They have to give everyone a public
example of prayer, respect, and joy and defend their traditions as a precious
contribution to the spiritual life of society. If a country's legislation or
other reasons require work on Sunday, the day should nevertheless be lived as
the day of our deliverance which lets us share in this "festal
gathering," this "assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in
heaven."( Hebrews 12:22-23.)125 –Catechism of the Catholic
Church, Second Edition
IN BRIEF
2193 "On Sundays and other holy days of obligation the faithful are bound . . . to abstain from those labors and business concerns which impede the worship to be rendered to God, the joy which is proper to the Lord's Day, or the proper relaxation of mind and body" (Codex Iuris Canonici, can. 1247). --CCC
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