Eating out on Easter

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No! Have two half portions of everything on the menu and enjoy! Remember to tip at least 15% even if the service is terrible and no more than 25%!
 
Rolypoly said:
Is it a sin to eat out on Easter Sunday with relatives?
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only if you are a baptized Catholic and did not attend the Easter Vigil on Saturday and will, instead of going to church on Easter Sunday, be ‘eating out with the relatives’ all day long.
 
Would love to know the answer. I usually get take out food the night before I fast but today I stopped myself because… well it just didn’t seem right considering that Jesus by this time [night time here] was in jail… Just not sure. Would love a burger before I go without food tomorrow :D:D

Edit: Only read the OP properly now. I see he means eating out on Easter Sunday not during Easter. D’oh.
 
There is a consideration here. I’m assuming your asking whether or not it’s appropriate as Christians to make other people work for your benefit on Sunday.

We have a Hobby Lobby store in our city that doesn’t open on Sunday. They post a sign on the door that reads:

“Hobby Lobby is closed on Sunday so that our employees can spend time in worship with their families.”

My nephew works in food service, he’s never able to make it home for religious holidays.
 
Would it be a sin to go out to eat on Saturday after mass? Or is it the same thing as Sunday since the mass has been celebrated. ?
 
1809 Temperance is the moral virtue that moderates the attraction of pleasures and provides balance in the use of created goods. It ensures the will’s mastery over instincts and keeps desires within the limits of what is honorable. The temperate person directs the sensitive appetites toward what is good and maintains a healthy discretion: "Do not follow your inclination and strength, walking according to the desires of your heart."72 Temperance is often praised in the Old Testament: "Do not follow your base desires, but restrain your appetites."73 In the New Testament it is called “moderation” or “sobriety.” We ought "to live sober, upright, and godly lives in this world."74

*(though personally I judge that “moderation” will differ on feasts than other days…but one still is to be moderate…)
 
Making someone else work on a Sunday is like Puddy in that Seinfeld episode where he wanted Elaine to steal the neighbors paper because he didn’t want to, he was a “Christian”. And Elaine was going to hell anyway, so what did it matter to her. Well, was he a real Christian? Would he have someone else do something that he knew he shouldn’t do himself? That is, servile work on a Sunday… Easter at that…
 
Tighty_Whitey said:
No! Have two half portions of everything on the menu and enjoy! Remember to tip at least 15% even if the service is terrible and no more than 25%!
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Having been a waiter (and a busboy before that) and a bartender, I do NOT agree, If the service is terrible, leave exactly one cent (that way the server will NOT think that you just forgot). AND, report that terrible service to the management. No establishment will survive for long if terrible service is allowed, and frankly terrible servers should NOT be in that field.

If the service is merely acceptable, a 15% gratuity is the general run of the mill. Waiters and waitresses do split their tips with bus people (generally 15% of their tips go to the bus person), and they are generally paid well BELOW the minim hourly wage (they are an exception to the law, because of their tips). They truly depend on the tips, in order to survive.

If the service was exceptional, then leave them 20-25% of the total check. AND do let the management know that this person treated you exceptionally well.

If you can not afford to tip, then find a self-serve restaurant, a buffet, etc. It is grossly UNFAIR to allow another person to wait on you, and NOT to provide for their living.
 
Rolypoly said:
Is it a sin to eat out on Easter Sunday with relatives?
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can you think of a reason why it might be? what commandment would it violate? unless they are indentured servants or slaves people do have a choice of when and where to work. you are not responsible for their conscience or that of their employer
 
puzzleannie said:
can you think of a reason why it might be? what commandment would it violate? unless they are indentured servants or slaves people do have a choice of when and where to work. you are not responsible for their conscience or that of their employer
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It could be considered a violation of the third commandment.
 
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