Should my teenager stop working on Sundays?

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Everyone here realizes that the term “servile work” no longer appears in Canon Law, right? This thread, and the perpetual ones like it, make me think of the old joke about asking two rabbis a question and getting three answers.
 
Well, I work Sundays and I get paid well for doing it. I am not giving it up. It’s janitorial work so it’s probably servile work. Oh well :man_shrugging:t2:
 
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That is a job I would NOT want as an introvert. Nothing against the OPs son of course.
 
I always have a lot of respect for the people who promote businesses like that. I especially like the dancing Lady Libertys who appear everywhere in the USA around tax time.
 
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Yeah, me either. He loves it though, despite the occasional one-fingered waves he gets. Most people are nice, smiling and waving at him and some even stopping to get their picture taken with him.
 
No, allow him to work; BUT be sure he STILL attends Saturday evening or Sunday Mass. …IF he is unable to do this; then perhaps he ought to find other employment OR wait. GOD has to come first.😃
 
And I guess according to some that all of the people who work for a parish are goin’ to hell for working on Sunday (because even if we are not in the office, when we are on the grounds we are working. You kneel to pray before Mass, someone taps you on the shoulder “there is no toilet paper in the men’s room” or “someone spelled my name wrong in the bulletin”.)
 
I would be surprised if very many Catholics believed that. Even the word liturgy means work, but it is a work we are obliged to do on Sunday, and there are definitely some essential jobs (firemen and police come to mind) that are necessary even on Sunday. But surely the 3rd commandment has some meaning for the rest of us regarding work on Sunday, doesn’t it?
 
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And I guess according to some that all of the people who work for a parish are goin’ to hell for working on Sunday
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We shall mitigate your time in Hell Fire utilizing my Book of Indulgences
 
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Actually, I would be happy for him to work the two hours on Sunday. I just want to do it with a clear conscious and not because it is the easiest path.
 
As long as he goes to mass. Well done on raising such a hard working boy xx
 
If he is able to make his regular mass obligation and he can keep his grades up then I think he should continue working.
 
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