Shopping on Sunday.

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Hello,

I am new to this forum. My wife told me that I should not be shopping for groceries(for work(lunch) and home) on Sunday. Is she correct? Is it not ok to shop on Sunday?
 
Well, we’re meant to abstain from work - as much as possible - on Sundays.

Doesn’t just mean the paid kind, but other things like unnecessary chores or shopping. Obviously some chores might be necessary, or you might need your emergency bread and milk or whatnot, so that’s not what we’re talking about, just the unnecessary stuff.

So if possible, get the shopping done on another day.
 
The section in the Catechism will be of help. vatican.va/archive/catechism/p3s2c1a3.htm#II

Food shopping on Sunday. There is nothing that says currently that one may not per se. One should of course seek to not burden others or let it interfere with the joy of the day or worship due to God…but it is certainly not a sin to run to the store to get some things one needs for dinner (unless such is a local law which i doubt). However – I would try to do the major shopping another day if one can.

Also note that necessity --in the past --excused one when one was not permitted to shop on a Sunday. (when it was not permitted)

Of course it is very important for us to live Sundays! The day of the Resurrection!

And Pope Benedict XVI has been reminding us to truly live this day:
 
Pope Benedict XVI:

Iuxta dominicam viventes – living in accordance with the Lord’s Day
  1. From the beginning Christians were clearly conscious of this radical newness which the Eucharist brings to human life. The faithful immediately perceived the profound influence of the eucharistic celebration on their manner of life. Saint Ignatius of Antioch expressed this truth when he called Christians “those who have attained a new hope,” and described them as “those living in accordance with the Lord’s Day” (iuxta dominicam viventes). (204) This phrase of the great Antiochene martyr highlights the connection between the reality of the Eucharist and everyday Christian life. The Christians’ customary practice of gathering on the first day after the Sabbath to celebrate the resurrection of Christ – according to the account of Saint Justin Martyr(205) – is also what defines the form of a life renewed by an encounter with Christ. Saint Ignatius’ phrase – “living in accordance with the Lord’s Day” – also emphasizes that this holy day becomes paradigmatic for every other day of the week. Indeed, it is defined by something more than the simple suspension of one’s ordinary activities, a sort of parenthesis in one’s usual daily rhythm. Christians have always experienced this day as the first day of the week, since it commemorates the radical newness brought by Christ. Sunday is thus the day when Christians rediscover the eucharistic form which their lives are meant to have. “Living in accordance with the Lord’s Day” means living in the awareness of the liberation brought by Christ and making our lives a constant self-offering to God, so that his victory may be fully revealed to all humanity through a profoundly renewed existence.
Living the Sunday obligation
  1. Conscious of this new vital principle which the Eucharist imparts to the Christian, the Synod Fathers reaffirmed the importance of the Sunday obligation for all the faithful, viewing it as a wellspring of authentic freedom enabling them to live each day in accordance with what they celebrated on “the Lord’s Day.” The life of faith is endangered when we lose the desire to share in the celebration of the Eucharist and its commemoration of the paschal victory. Participating in the Sunday liturgical assembly with all our brothers and sisters, with whom we form one body in Jesus Christ, is demanded by our Christian conscience and at the same time it forms that conscience. To lose a sense of Sunday as the Lord’s Day, a day to be sanctified, is symptomatic of the loss of an authentic sense of Christian freedom, the freedom of the children of God. (206) Here some observations made by my venerable predecessor John Paul II in his Apostolic Letter Dies Domini (207) continue to have great value. Speaking of the various dimensions of the Christian celebration of Sunday, he said that it is Dies Domini with regard to the work of creation, Dies Christi as the day of the new creation and the Risen Lord’s gift of the Holy Spirit, Dies Ecclesiae as the day on which the Christian community gathers for the celebration, and Dies hominis as the day of joy, rest and fraternal charity.
Sunday thus appears as the primordial holy day, when all believers, wherever they are found, can become heralds and guardians of the true meaning of time. It gives rise to the Christian meaning of life and a new way of experiencing time, relationships, work, life and death. On the Lord’s Day, then, it is fitting that Church groups should organize, around Sunday Mass, the activities of the Christian community: social gatherings, programmes for the faith formation of children, young people and adults, pilgrimages, charitable works, and different moments of prayer. For the sake of these important values – while recognizing that Saturday evening, beginning with First Vespers, is already a part of Sunday and a time when the Sunday obligation can be fulfilled – we need to remember that it is Sunday itself that is meant to be kept holy, lest it end up as a day “empty of God.” (208)

The meaning of rest and of work
  1. Finally, it is particularly urgent nowadays to remember that the day of the Lord is also a day of rest from work. It is greatly to be hoped that this fact will also be recognized by civil society, so that individuals can be permitted to refrain from work without being penalized. Christians, not without reference to the meaning of the Sabbath in the Jewish tradition, have seen in the Lord’s Day a day of rest from their daily exertions. This is highly significant, for it relativizes work and directs it to the person: work is for man and not man for work. It is easy to see how this actually protects men and women, emancipating them from a possible form of enslavement. As I have had occasion to say, “work is of fundamental importance to the fulfilment of the human being and to the development of society. Thus, it must always be organized and carried out with full respect for human dignity and must always serve the common good. At the same time, it is indispensable that people not allow themselves to be enslaved by work or to idolize it, claiming to find in it the ultimate and definitive meaning of life.” (209) It is on the day consecrated to God that men and women come to understand the meaning of their lives and also of their work. (210)
vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/apost_exhortations/documents/hf_ben-xvi_exh_20070222_sacramentum-caritatis_en.html#The_eucharistic_form_of_the_christian_life
 
zerritug said:
Hello,

I am new to this forum. My wife told me that I should not be shopping for groceries(for work(lunch) and home) on Sunday. Is she correct? Is it not ok to shop on Sunday?
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  • Years ago, I asked my parish priest about working and chores on the sabbath. He told me that Jesus changed that law and we are free to work, if necessary, on the Sabbath. In some cases, it is the only time we have to grocery shop or do other chores, and it’s perfectly fine to do those things.
**(Mark 2.23-28; Luke 6.1-5)
1One Sabbath, Jesus and his disciples were walking through some wheat fields. [a] His disciples were hungry and began picking and eating grains of wheat. 2Some Pharisees noticed this and said to Jesus, “Why are your disciples picking grain on the Sabbath? They are not supposed to do that!” 3Jesus answered:
You surely must have read what David did when he and his followers were hungry. 4He went into the house of God, and then they ate the sacred loaves of bread that only priests are supposed to eat. 5Haven’t you read in the Law of Moses that the priests are allowed to work in the temple on the Sabbath? But no one says that they are guilty of breaking the law of the Sabbath. 6I tell you that there is something here greater than the temple. 7Don’t you know what the Scriptures mean when they say, “Instead of offering sacrifices to me, I want you to be merciful to others?” If you knew what this means, you would not condemn these innocent disciples of mine. 8So the Son of Man is Lord over the Sabbath.

(Mark 3.1-6; Luke 6.6-11)
9Jesus left and went into one of the Jewish meeting places, 10where there was a man whose hand was crippled. Some Pharisees wanted to accuse Jesus of doing something wrong, and they asked him, “Is it right to heal someone on the Sabbath?”
11Jesus answered, “If you had a sheep that fell into a ditch on the Sabbath, wouldn’t you lift it out? 12People are worth much more than sheep, and so it is right to do good on the Sabbath.” 13Then Jesus told the man, “Hold out your hand.” The man did, and it became as healthy as the other one. ***
 
Celtic_Catholic said:
  • Years ago, I asked my parish priest about working and chores on the sabbath. He told me that Jesus changed that law and we are free to work, if necessary, on the Sabbath. In some cases, it is the only time we have to grocery shop or do other chores, and it’s perfectly fine to do those things.
**(Mark 2.23-28; Luke 6.1-5)
1One Sabbath, Jesus and his disciples were walking through some wheat fields. [a] His disciples were hungry and began picking and eating grains of wheat. 2Some Pharisees noticed this and said to Jesus, “Why are your disciples picking grain on the Sabbath? They are not supposed to do that!” 3Jesus answered:
You surely must have read what David did when he and his followers were hungry. 4He went into the house of God, and then they ate the sacred loaves of bread that only priests are supposed to eat. 5Haven’t you read in the Law of Moses that the priests are allowed to work in the temple on the Sabbath? But no one says that they are guilty of breaking the law of the Sabbath. 6I tell you that there is something here greater than the temple. 7Don’t you know what the Scriptures mean when they say, “Instead of offering sacrifices to me, I want you to be merciful to others?” If you knew what this means, you would not condemn these innocent disciples of mine. 8So the Son of Man is Lord over the Sabbath.

(Mark 3.1-6; Luke 6.6-11)
9Jesus left and went into one of the Jewish meeting places, 10where there was a man whose hand was crippled. Some Pharisees wanted to accuse Jesus of doing something wrong, and they asked him, “Is it right to heal someone on the Sabbath?”
11Jesus answered, “If you had a sheep that fell into a ditch on the Sabbath, wouldn’t you lift it out? 12People are worth much more than sheep, and so it is right to do good on the Sabbath.” 13Then Jesus told the man, “Hold out your hand.” The man did, and it became as healthy as the other one. ***
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by the way…Sunday is not the Sabbath. that is Saturday basically. But Christians are not obliged to observe the Sabbath…but they are to rest on the Lord’s Day …which is Sunday…

(this is often confused)
 
*That’s what my priest said. But we are permitted to work on Saturday and Sunday if we need to. *
 
Thank You all for your responses. I will try to do my shopping for the week on Saturday now, instead of Sunday.
 

But Christians are not obliged to observe the Sabbath…but they are to rest on the Lord’s Day …which is Sunday;​

Hi;

As I understand the Lord’s Day according To Revelation 1:10 is John was present on the day of Judgment or on the Day of the Lord’s Vengence upon Sin noted through Revelation.

The Scripture in Rev 1:10 does not note that this was on sunday but John present in Heaven on the Day God overrules the Rebellion of Satan.
 
Faith_To said:

But Christians are not obliged to observe the Sabbath…but they are to rest on the Lord’s Day …which is Sunday;​

Hi;

As I understand the Lord’s Day according To Revelation 1:10 is John was present on the day of Judgment or on the Day of the Lord’s Vengence upon Sin noted through Revelation.

The Scripture in Rev 1:10 does not note that this was on sunday but John present in Heaven on the Day God overrules the Rebellion of Satan.
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it was on the Lords day… in the sense of Sunday… it is talking about where he was on earth…and when…
 
Thanks BookCat for the Reply;

I do not believe that John was talking about the Day (Sunday) when the Lord was resurrected which the Lords Day is referred to. Scholars reconize Rev 1:10 the Lord’s Day is where the Lord’s Vengence is fulfilled, which is over a period of time not on a specific day. Due to the fact of Scripture or if we use Scripture to answer Scripture in Isa 58:13 the Lord refers this Day to another.

I know traditional teaching referrs Rev 1:10 as sunday, but in highlight and content of Revelation if begs to differ because John is not refering Sunday to God’s Judgment day.
 
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