Can I do this on Sundays?

[bethanysamuel]

I think if you can find a way that no housework needs to be done on Sunday you should bottle it and sell it.

Has anyone ever become seriously ill from resting on Sundays? I’ve never heard a news story of someone dying from not washing the dishes etc. Being a carer, of course, is a whole different story. That of course can be life/death. But housework? {hoovering, ironing…}…

 

[Catholic90]

Has anyone ever become seriously ill from resting on Sundays? I’ve never heard a news story of someone dying from not washing the dishes etc. Being a carer, of course, is a whole different story. That of course can be life/death. But housework? {hoovering, ironing…}…

Well…if one does not wash the dishes on Sunday, they sit on the counter. Then the cat, being curious, jumps on the counter to check out the dirty dishes. The cat knocks a plate, bowl, and knife on the floor, shattering the glass plate and bowl and sending the knife under the counter. As the owner walks into the kitchen and starts to clean up the mess, she steps on a piece of broken glass. In her immediate pain, she quickly steps back, only to step on a curved piece of glass from the broken bowl. Unable to stand due to glass in both feet, she drops down onto her hands and knees to crawl away from the mess. As she does so, her hand sweeps over the dropped knife, cutting her hand.

I always do laundry on Sundays so I have clean clothes for my week.

 

[Barbra67]

Hi,

Sunday is the day you should go to church with your family & attend the mass. Nothing wrong if you want to go shopping, clean the house or prepare a meal.

 

[TimothyH]

Has anyone ever become seriously ill from resting on Sundays? I’ve never heard a news story of someone dying from not washing the dishes etc. Being a carer, of course, is a whole different story. That of course can be life/death. But housework? {hoovering, ironing…}…

When someone:

• raises two children without a spouse
• owns their own home
• mows their own grass
• changes their own oil and does their own brakes on the car
• holds a full time job
• cooks hot meals six nights/week
• cleans the house weekly including scrubbing toilets and mopping floors
• does the laundry, dishes and grocery shopping
• earns enough money to send their children to Catholic School
• takes their kids to Mass every Sunday
• Altar serves 2x/week
• reads at Mass every other week
• spends 4 to 5 hours per week in adoration

Then they get to tell me about disrespecting God by running a vaccum cleaner or folding laundry on Sunday.

-Tim-

 

[bethanysamuel]

When someone:

• raises two children without a spouse
• owns their own home
• mows their own grass
• changes their own oil and does their own brakes on the car
• holds a full time job
• cooks hot meals six nights/week
• cleans the house weekly including scrubbing toilets and mopping floors
• does the laundry, dishes and grocery shopping
• earns enough money to send their children to Catholic School
• takes their kids to Mass every Sunday
• Altar serves 2x/week
• reads at Mass every other week
• spends 4 to 5 hours per week in adoration

CThen they get to tell me about disrespecting God by running a vaccum cleaner or folding laundry on Sunday.

Sounds like you’re a very busy, hard-working, dedicated person. But you can still get most of your stuff done on a saturday, no? Anyway, i’m just trying to make people think here, to wonder, what do people really need to do on Sundays. It’s worth just thinking about. I don’t want to please Satan so thats why i dont wanna get confrontational, im just putting the thought out there. It is, after all, the 3rd Commandment.

-Tim-

 

[Bookcat]

Pope Benedict XVI:

The meaning of rest and of work

“74. Finally, it is particularly urgent nowadays to remember that the day of the Lord is also a day of rest from work. It is greatly to be hoped that this fact will also be recognized by civil society, so that individuals can be permitted to refrain from work without being penalized. Christians, not without reference to the meaning of the Sabbath in the Jewish tradition, have seen in the Lord’s Day a day of rest from their daily exertions. This is highly significant, for it relativizes work and directs it to the person: work is for man and not man for work. It is easy to see how this actually protects men and women, emancipating them from a possible form of enslavement. As I have had occasion to say, “work is of fundamental importance to the fulfilment of the human being and to the development of society. Thus, it must always be organized and carried out with full respect for human dignity and must always serve the common good. At the same time, it is indispensable that people not allow themselves to be enslaved by work or to idolize it, claiming to find in it the ultimate and definitive meaning of life.” (209) It is on the day consecrated to God that men and women come to understand the meaning of their lives and also of their work. (210)”

More there to read on the Lords Day: vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/apost_exhortations/documents/hf_ben-xvi_exh_20070222_sacramentum-caritatis_en.html#The_eucharistic_form_of_the_christian_life

Make sure this is read…a great document!

 

[Catholic90]

When someone:

• raises two children without a spouse
• owns their own home
• mows their own grass
• changes their own oil and does their own brakes on the car
• holds a full time job
• cooks hot meals six nights/week
• cleans the house weekly including scrubbing toilets and mopping floors
• does the laundry, dishes and grocery shopping
• earns enough money to send their children to Catholic School
• takes their kids to Mass every Sunday
• Altar serves 2x/week
• reads at Mass every other week
• spends 4 to 5 hours per week in adoration

Then they get to tell me about disrespecting God by running a vaccum cleaner or folding laundry on Sunday.

-Tim-

EXCELLENT post!! Good job, Dad.

 

[Catholic90]

Sounds like you’re a very busy, hard-working, dedicated person. But you can still get most of your stuff done on a saturday, no? Anyway, i’m just trying to make people think here, to wonder, what do people really need to do on Sundays. It’s worth just thinking about. I don’t want to please Satan so thats why i dont wanna get confrontational, im just putting the thought out there. It is, after all, the 3rd Commandment.

Clearly, you’ve never been an unmarried parent and held a full time job while owning a home and maintaining everything by yourself. I get exactly what Tim is saying, because I am doing the same thing. I am raising my sons alone, putting 2 through college, 1 through Catholic high school, maintaining my own home, and keeping a clean home while working as a teacher (who often has work to do at home in the evening). There simply are not enough hours in Monday through Saturday to get everything done and done well. What happens when Sunday is the only day the weather cooperates for mowing? Answer: The grass gets mowed on Sunday. What happens when it snows on Sunday? Answer: The driveway gets shoveled or blown open. What happens when hours have run out on Saturday (ie. you were not home all day because you were at your children’s activities) and you need clean clothes for the coming work week? Answer: you do laundry on Sunday.

 

[bethanysamuel]

Clearly, you’ve never been an unmarried parent and held a full time job while owning a home and maintaining everything by yourself. I get exactly what Tim is saying, because I am doing the same thing. I am raising my sons alone, putting 2 through college, 1 through Catholic high school, maintaining my own home, and keeping a clean home while working as a teacher (who often has work to do at home in the evening). There simply are not enough hours in Monday through Saturday to get everything done and done well. What happens when Sunday is the only day the weather cooperates for mowing? Answer: The grass gets mowed on Sunday. What happens when it snows on Sunday? Answer: The driveway gets shoveled or blown open. What happens when hours have run out on Saturday (ie. you were not home all day because you were at your children’s activities) and you need clean clothes for the coming work week? Answer: you do laundry on Sunday.

I wouldn’t be so quick to make assumptions about my life. Is mowing the lawn essential? Are you telling me the sun only shines on Sundays? As for snow, do you get snowed in every Sunday? As for laundry, why can’t you do it on a saturday? Are all the children’s activities necessary, and if so, why can’t the washing machine be on while you’re out? You can put them drying on a sat. eve n they’ll be dry for monday morning. Think about it.

 

[Catholic90]

I wouldn’t be so quick to make assumptions about my life. Is mowing the lawn essential? Are you telling me the sun only shines on Sundays? As for snow, do you get snowed in every Sunday? As for laundry, why can’t you do it on a saturday? Are all the children’s activities necessary, and if so, why can’t the washing machine be on while you’re out? You can put them drying on a sat. eve n they’ll be dry for monday morning. Think about it.

Yes, my children’s activities ARE necessary. It is what they love to do, and I will be there for them. I would much rather spend time with my children on Saturday than doing housework. The children will not always be there. What will they remember more - the fact I was there with them, or the fact I did laundry on Saturdays?

Yes, mowing the lawn is essential. It keeps the yard nice, plus dog poop is much easier to pick up on a mowed yard. Some weeks, yes, the sun only shines on Sunday. I do laundry when I have time. I have time on Sundays. I fold laundry Sunday evening while watching Simpsons, Family Guy, etc. It’s been my routine for years.