Bringing Food shopping to Mass

[ConstantineTG]

Aren’t you lucky you’ve never heard of Tesco!

They are a giant supermarket chain. Cheap and good food, but in my part of the world they have put a lot small businesses out of business because they can sell cheaper than they can, and a lot of farmers.

We have Walmart on this side of the pond (yes, even up here in Canada. And we’ll have Target soon too.)

 

[ConstantineTG]

Hmm good question. A follow-up would be how many actually treat the Lord’s day as a Sabbath, aside from going to church.

I know I don’t really.

What’s wrong with grocery shopping on a Sunday? Its not like what they buy is something for pleasure. Didn’t Jesus say that if the sheep fell in a pit on the Sabbath that the Shepherd won’t wait for the next day to rescue the sheep? Grocery items, more often are not, are necessities.

 

[TrueLight]

What’s wrong with grocery shopping on a Sunday? Its not like what they buy is something for pleasure. Didn’t Jesus say that if the sheep fell in a pit on the Sabbath that the Shepherd won’t wait for the next day to rescue the sheep? Grocery items, more often are not, are necessities.

I can certainly do laundry and grocery shopping on a Saturday. I’m speaking of making a practice of doing all these things on Sunday, when it should be a day of worship, rest, leisure and family time.

It’s something I’ve thought about on and off and it’s a personal thing for me. Not the topic of this thread.

 

[ConstantineTG]

I can certainly do laundry and grocery shopping on a Saturday. I’m speaking of making a practice of doing all these things on Sunday, when it should be a day of worship, rest, leisure and family time.

It’s something I’ve thought about on and off and it’s a personal thing for me. Not the topic of this thread.

You do not know the reason behind why other families would do it on a Sunday rather than a Saturday. So if they do so regularly, it is still not for you to judge them. There are many valid reasons for them to do so. With instances like this I suggest its more important to focus on your own spiritual growth rather than what other people are doing.

 

[paperwight66]

Yeah, here some folks call 'em Walmart… (don’t shoot! I work for them!)

Nah, your Wamart is our Asda. That is to say, Asda has recently gone into partnership/been taken over by Walmart. It’s still called Asda, though. Nowt to do with Tesco.

 

[Zacdecat]

I would think it a bit off on a Sunday…being a day of rest, and the church is usually at bursting point anyway…

on the weekday Mass, oh well, sometimes these things happen, better to be at Mass than not because of the groceries…

 

[minkymurph]

I can certainly do laundry and grocery shopping on a Saturday. I’m speaking of making a practice of doing all these things on Sunday, when it should be a day of worship, rest, leisure and family time.

It’s something I’ve thought about on and off and it’s a personal thing for me. Not the topic of this thread.

This reminds me of a rhyme my parish priest once told me. I can’t remember it, but it’s about a mother reflecting on the meaning of the Sabbath and goes something like, ‘cook, clean, do the laundry Monday - Saturday. Cook, clean, do the laundry Sunday - what’s different and what about my day of rest?’

I know how she feels!

It’s not shopping that’s the problem. The problem is consumerism - the 'shop ‘till u drop’ ethos all in the name of profit. If you brought dozens of shopping bags to Mass 'cos you wanted everyone to see the name of the expensive shop you’d just been in emblazoned front and back on the bag, and because you wanted everyone to see how much you’d bought, there would be something wrong with that.

 

[laszlo]

Default Re: How often do you go to mass on Sundays?
When I was child in Hungary the Jewish stores closed at Friday about 5 o’clock, the Christian stores at Saturday 2 o’clock, and all opened on Monday morning again. People made their shopping on Fridays. There we no fridges, so the meat was sometimes stinky by the Sunday diner.

We all believed that this is the religion, and that the third commandment is not to work on Sunday.

Then the Communism came, and they claimed that there is no God, the highest value is the human life, so the stores were open on Sundays too.

Then I get to Bavaria, and over there in 1981 the store closed at Saturday 2 o’clock, they believed that the Sunday is for God. I do not know how it is now.

Then I came to the US, and it was like in the communism, the highest value is the human life and feeling Good. Why to give a day to God and distinguish it from others.

The name of this is secularization. The world and feeling good is the center, not God.

 

[minkymurph]

The name of this is secularization. The world and feeling good is the center, not God.

Well that’s really what the problem is and not the actual shopping.

 

[minkymurph]

We are all part of it to a greater or lesser degree.

I gave up on trying to change the world a long time ago and have adopted the ‘if you can’t stem the tide learn to swim’ approach. Life is often more about survival than principles.

I also like a comment made by an historian recently in a documentary about the series, ‘The Tudors.’ She said Anne of Cleaves was a, ‘if you grow lemons, drink lemonade’ person and because of that, she fared better than the rest of Henry VIII’s wives.

 

[karow]

I can certainly do laundry and grocery shopping on a Saturday. I’m speaking of making a practice of doing all these things on Sunday, when it should be a day of worship, rest, leisure and family time.

It’s something I’ve thought about on and off and it’s a personal thing for me. Not the topic of this thread.

For a couple of years my husband and I looked after our 90-something-year-old neighbor. On 1-2 Sundays/month after Mass my in-laws would look after our daughters, and we’d go over to his place and tidy it up for him, trim up his landscaping if it needed to be done, run errands, get groceries, basically just kind of help the gentleman out.

Why Sundays? Because it was really the only day available to us. But my point is we none of us know why others are doing what they’re doing on Sundays, just like we don’t know why people bring their shopping bags to Mass. Other that approach everyone we see doing this, and risk an ugly confrontation, the best (or worse) we can do is speculate. And people generally don’t assume the best nor are they typically charitable when they speculate.