Is ONLINE shopping on Sundays a sin?

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Glennon_P said:
How about going to a ball game? Ticket sellers, ushers, concession workers - even the athletes themselves if they are professionals - all work on Sunday to put on that game.
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Then they are breaking the commandments. A priest has actually told me this. It isn’t my opinion.
 
Sunday’s are about worship at mass (or Saturday), being with family and relaxing. If you find shopping to be relaxing and it isn’t taking place of going to mass, then its all good to do.

Perfect Sunday: Sleep in a bit, watch some netflix with your husband or wife, go to mass with the family, have some waffles for lunch, then relax with some swimming, board games, and BBQ.
 
Thank you everyone who has posted here. Hopefully it’s given all of us something to really think about.

Perhaps we can all makes some adjustments to our “normal” Sundays to give more honor to God without becoming 21st century Pharisees.
 
Sarcelle said:
Or sit and face the wall and endlessly pray until Monday.

Can’t use electricity or water since that makes the utility workers work on Sunday which makes you an accessory to sin. :roll_eyes:
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Who said Christians were Karaites? Is not shopping such a big deal for you that you compare it to a strawman?
 
Perhaps people are confusing “Blue Laws” with Official Catholic Teaching? At least here in the United States, those laws were championed by Protestants.

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My parish priest said unless you’re buying something necessary such as formula for your baby it’s best not to shop. I haven’t noticed him standing at a wall, rocking back and forth muttering, so much as offering mass wearing IHS, so I’m pretty sure he’s Christian.
 
No

As a matter of fact I hate shopping so why assume it’s such a big deal to me? Do you even know me?

My parish priest on the other hand says it’s not sin to go grocery shopping or cooking on a Sunday.
 
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@camoderator This thread is getting rather aggressive and sassy. It has stopped being productive.
 
How about utility workers such as those who work at the power plant or the water treatment plant? They work on Sundays so you can switch on the lights or flush the toilet. Are they sinning?

How about truck drivers, taxi drivers, bakers, farmers? Animals have to be fed, produce harvested.

Are they sinning?
 
Oh, you disagree with them so you mock them as Karaites. I see. I guess that kind of mockery is okay as you no doubt checked with your parish priest.

Or are you truly confused about Christian observance of the Lord’s Day versus Karaite observance of the Friday/Saturday Sabbath? There is a distinction between common work and servile work. Cooking is common.
 
What is a Karaite?

Again you can’t read my mind or my intentions so why and how do you know that I intend to mock?
 
Matthew 11:30

”For my yoke is easy and my burden is light."

God is very reasonable and understanding. I believe that’s why He didn’t specify every minor detail concerning “Keep Holy the Lord’s Day”. He knows that some of us must work, get some groceries, or place a last minute order. All He asks is that we don’t do anything that will impede our Sunday Obligation.
 
I agree with you here and I do my best to honor this Sunday obligation.
 
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I work every weekend so I’m well aware of this entire issue. However, my work (Facility Maintenance) allows others to enjoy their weekend. Hey, somebody’s gotta do it!
 
newconvertcatholic said:
Keeping the Lord’s day holy means doing nothing unnecessary or fanciful on that day.
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What I find odd (and this isn’t directed at you newconvertcatholic) is that people will argue against doing anything “fanciful” like shopping, yet they’ll be surfing the web entertaining themselves.
 
If you nickel and dime and dissect every instance where something may or may not be seen as sin when it comes to doing things on a Sunday you end up with people
who are afraid to do anything on a Sunday, hence the endless posts of “Is it a sin to do xxxx on a Sunday?”. I’ve been on this forum long enough to see this constant repetition of “Is it a sin” threads. You name whatever activity and there will be someone who is dead sure that said activity is a sin on Sunday until one comes to the conclusion that anything outside of mass and prayer is sin. Seeing this endless posts makes me jaded not mocking.

This is how you end up with Jews who won’t turn on a light switch because it might be dishonoring the Sabbath or a Catholic teenager who is afraid to play video games on a Sunday. Yes there was a post asking if this is sin.

Again I am not mocking. Just wondering if constant speculation of whether doing something on a Sunday is a sin leads us to absurd scenarios.
 
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Sarcelle said:
I’ve been on this forum long enough to see this constant repetition of “Is it a sin” threads.
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This is the “catholic answers” site. It’s kinda unavoidable. A lot of new catholics need more info than they get at rcia and a priest is often unavailable.

And Jews can’t turn on a light on the sabbath, but they leave them on. Same for the oven and stove. Karaites won’t do so because they don’t want to benefit, iirc. Something like that. The orthodox make fun of them. The laws of sabbath for jews are quite extensive. The church’s entire code of canon law is nothing in size compared to the talmud and everything derived from it. Catholics couldn’t be that legalistic if they tried.

This discussion here highlights a great degree of variance in catachesis. My own replies are based on my daily missal and what my priest said during confession. But I attend an FSSP church and expect they’ll be more strict, though not heterodox.

I apologize for assuming you were mocking.
 
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PennyinCanada said:
When we love someone, we do things that show we love them. Not once a year because it’s their birthday and there’s maybe a sense of obligation. I can’t overlook a birthday. But that showing we care for them should be often.

If there’s any task that can be moved to Saturday or Monday, take that opportunity and say Jesus I love you, save souls.
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How about if somebody does their tasks and leisure time as normal for a Sunday, including going to Mass and spending some time with family or in prayer, but does other things for Jesus, such as fasting, or prayer, or good works, to show Jesus they love him?

There are 1001 ways to show your love to Jesus. We do not all have to choose the same ways.

The whole “if you can’t do this then you don’t love Jesus” implication is a major problem with this forum. People have one way that they practice Catholicism and if you do something different, even if that something is permitted by the Church and/or left to your individual judgment, you get told in so many words you’re not loving Jesus because you didn’t do the thing that Poster X thinks, for whatever reason, is the paramount thing.

It’s very tiresome, even when posters making these holy speeches mean well.
 
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