Intellectual Labor on Sunday?

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I have to do some “intellectual labor” (I prefer not to go into details) and tomorrow would be a great opportunity to spend most of the day for it. I have heard that intellectual labor is allowed on Sundays, but I just wanted to ask what people here think (I am planning on going to adoration tomorrow as well but I haven’t committed to it). I know it is Easter and I should be worshipping and/or with family or resting but this is rather important (again I would rather not go into details). However my mind is not made up yet and I am open to what you all have in mind.
 
I am planning on studying all day today and going to the Easter Vigil tonight, but I still would like time to study on Sunday if I can. I am planning on spending all day today working on it. I am studying right now, and after mass tonight I will probably study all the way until midnight. But if enough people advise against it or point me to some Magisterial teaching about this I will refrain from studying tomorrow.
 
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I am planning on studying all day today and going to the Easter Vigil tonight, but I still would like time to study on Sunday if I can. I am planning on spending all day today working on it. I am studying right now, and after mass tonight I will probably study all the way until midnight. But if enough people advise against it or point me to some Magisterial teaching about this I will refrain from studying tomorrow.
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Sunday is a long day, especially if you get up early. I’m sure there will be time for Easter morning mass, studying, Easter dinner and more studying before bed.👍
 
We may not do unnessesary servile work on Sunday. I do not think that schoolwork is servile work.
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vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/__P4N.HTM

Code of Canon Law

Can. 1247 On Sundays and other holy days of obligation, the faithful are obliged to participate in the Mass.

Moreover, they are to abstain from those works and aVairs which hinder the worship to be rendered to God, the joy proper to the Lord’s day, or the suitable relaxation of mind and body.

vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/apost_letters/documents/hf_jp-ii_apl_05071998_dies-domini_en.html

APOSTOLIC LETTER
DIES DOMINI
OF THE HOLY FATHER
JOHN PAUL II
TO THE BISHOPS, CLERGY AND FAITHFUL
OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
ON KEEPING THE LORD’S DAY HOLY

Other moments of the Christian Sunday
  1. Sharing in the Eucharist is the heart of Sunday, but the duty to keep Sunday holy cannot be reduced to this. In fact, the Lord’s Day is lived well if it is marked from beginning to end by grateful and active remembrance of God’s saving work. This commits each of Christ’s disciples to shape the other moments of the day — those outside the liturgical context: family life, social relationships, moments of relaxation — in such a way that the peace and joy of the Risen Lord will emerge in the ordinary events of life. For example, the relaxed gathering of parents and children can be an opportunity not only to listen to one another but also to share a few formative and more reflective moments. Even in lay life, when possible, why not make provision for special times of prayer — especially the solemn celebration of Vespers, for example — or moments of catechesis, which on the eve of Sunday or on Sunday afternoon might prepare for or complete the gift of the Eucharist in people’s hearts?
 
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