I Have started working at a kind of group home for disabled people. This week I am working on Sunday.
I know it is necessary for somebody to be there so it is not per se unnecessary work, but I still have a few questions/concerns:
Some days they are only two people and they manage ok. Tomorrow (Sunday) we are three. It’s good to be three some days because it gives more freedom for example for somebody to go for a walk with patients.
Would I in any way, by Catholic law, be required, to say that I don’t want to work Sundays if it is not absolutely necessary? Like: I am off Monday, and could come then instead. But I am so early in the job I would feel wird making such special requests.
If I am there on Sunday, is it ok during times when there is nothing necessary to do to do jobs around the house like clean, sicne I am on paid time and shouldn’t just sit around???
Even worse I am working on the 26th, which I think is a Holy Day of Obligation in Switzerland (in Germany it is). And there aren’t any masses early in the morning or in the evening I could go to, the only one I have found so far is one in Italian at 7pm, I hardly understand any Italian, would that still be ok?
Or should I ask to be off in the morning so I can go to mass?? I am sure they could manage. I just don’t know if it is ok to ask for special treatment like that especially since I just started working there.
I frequently have to work on Holy Days & Sundays. Usually I’m able to make it to mass anyway, but sometimes I’m not. I work at a hospital and I know that I’m helping sick people. I get to ‘be Jesus’ to those people and minister to them in a very special way. My hands are His hands, to those people. It is my healing ministry. I see no problem working on a Sunday or Holy Day to minister to the sick and hurting; after all Jesus healed on the Sabbath.
I hate to miss mass, but those sick people (disabled people) need the best care they can get and I’m an important part of that whether it be a Sunday, Holy Day, Christmas, &c.
They might be able to ‘get by’ with out you. But do the disabled get better care and help when your there? If so I’d say go ‘be Jesus’ to the disabled on Sunday. Definitely go to mass if possible, but I wouldn’t let it bother me in the slightest if it isn’t possible, knowing that I’m helping out others that need necessarily medical attention or loving care that they won’t be able to as readily receive if I’m not there.
Yeah, and if there are only two people working like there sometimes have been, those people have way more stress and the day might be less restful for THEM… can see it that way too.
Be Jesus to people… I love that!
I hope I’ll be able to juggle it somehow with mass. Did you by any chance read my thread about daily mass? I might skip daily mass tomorrow night (it’s also at a church that is quite a ways away from where I live, meaning another train, another bus, and back again, and that after work) …so I’ll have more energy for Christmas…
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I am working on the 26th, which I think is a Holy Day of Obligation in Switzerland (in Germany it is). And there aren’t any masses early in the morning or in the evening I could go to, the only one I have found so far is one in Italian at 7pm, I hardly understand any Italian, would that still be ok?