Sabbath question

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So I’m 16 and I was hoping to go paintballing with my friend and others for his birthday. However it falls on a Sunday, and I was wondering if I can go, I hope I’m not breaking the commandment. Thanks and God Bless 🙂
 
Hello…I’m 15!
Anyways, it’s okay if you go, just go to mass later on Sunday or Saturday evening! No problem!
 
One of my great ancestors was put into ecumenical prison for “poaching on the sabbath”. Somehow, I don’t think the provision is enforced any longer.

At any rate, it doesn’t any commandment nor current canon law. Unless your own bishop has issued a regulation against it, I’d say you’re in the clear. (better head for cover before you look like this: :irish1:)
 
First of all, Sunday is not the Sabbath. It is the Lord’s Day, the observance of which replaces the Sabbath for Christians.

Anyway, we are generally to refrain from work (unless we have proper reasons not to) on the Lord’s Day in order to keep it a day of rest and joy and the worship of God. But why would celebrating a friend’s birthday with a game of paintball constitute that kind of work?
 
We are supposed to avoid “servile labor” on the Lord’s day (Sunday). BTW, the Jewish Sabbath is still sundown Friday to sundown Saturday.
 
I would say it is wrong if you are going to a business that provides paintball facilities, because that is encouraging others to work, but if you are just going out in the woods or something, that’s okay.
 
CF_Mathews said:
I would say it is wrong if you are going to a business that provides paintball facilities, because that is encouraging others to work, but if you are just going out in the woods or something, that’s okay.
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There is the other side of this argument that purposely avoiding such a business for this reason might be depriving someone of a livelihood.
 
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