Shopping Late Sunday?

[Firefox]

I’ve been reading up on Sunday restrictions, and this question came to me… Mass occurs in the morning. So, if I know that there are nearby churches to the store that have a morning mass prior to the time I am shopping, wouldn’t that automatically not hinder the workers from observance of Sunday, especially if there are no Masses in the area after the time of shopping?

 

[goofyjim]

I see no problem with that. I shop on Sundays after Mass and don’t feel a bit guilty.

 

[jemfinch]

I thought the (non-enumerated) restriction on shopping on Sundays was largely due not to the possibility that we may be contributing to someone’s absence from mass, but because we may be contributing to someone’s servile labor on the Lord’s Day.

That would seem to hold no matter when a person goes shopping on Sunday.

Jeremy

 

[goofyjim]

Still see no problem with it. The stores should open late to allow everyone to get to Churhc first but there are some of us who are unable to do shopping on any other day and to simply suggest that it is against God’s law to shop or earn a necessary living on Sunday is a belief I will ignore.