Significant Driving on Sunday?

[PeteZaHut]

I will be on Christmas break from college and will need to go back on a Sunday. It would be about a 2 and a half hour trip. Should I come back the day before instead? I wouldn’t consider driving to be work, but it is certainly not giving my day to the Lord.

 

[LilyM]

I will be on Christmas break from college and will need to go back on a Sunday. It would be about a 2 and a half hour trip. Should I come back the day before instead? I wouldn’t consider driving to be work, but it is certainly not giving my day to the Lord.

It’s absolutely fine. First of all realise that not ALL activity is inappropriate on Sundays. Watching a secular movie on tv, for example, is just fine.

To be inappropriate, Sunday activity would have to be one of three things - a) paid work, b) physical (servile) labour, such as household chores or gardening or something, or c) commercial activity such as shopping. Even in those three cases it would have to be unnecessary and/or prolonged (I’ve seen definitions of over four hours as being prolonged).

Now driving is not any of those three improper things - you can fill up with petrol and prepare what you’re going to eat on the drive the night before if you’re worried about buying stuff along the way.

And if you’re STILL worried just play a CD of the rosary (or pray it silently) during your drive - you might be able to get a good 15 or even 20 decades in!

 

[MrZoom]

I would tend to agree, though one could, I suppose, make the counter-argument that by traveling on Sunday, you are forcing others to work (restaurant waiters, gas station cashiers, toll collectors, etc.) Then on the other hand, a counter-counter-argument could be devised that those people would be working anyway due to our highly mobile society.

Also, you **can **give your drive time to the Lord. Might I suggest joining the Sacred Heart Auto League?