Ave Maria series
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]
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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]
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
2192 "Sunday . . . is to be observed as the foremost holy day of obligation in the universal Church" (Codex Iuris Canonici, can. 1246 § 1). "On Sundays and other holy days of obligation the faithful are bound to participate in the Mass" (Codex Iuris Canonici, can. 1247). –CCC
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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