Sunday shopping

[John_of_Woking]

Ok so I am walking home from confession and mass. I walk past a small off licence. Forgetting it’s Sunday I start paying for a drink (just a little something to go with my meal). Just as I am paying I remember it’s Sunday. Now I don’t like to shop on Sunday but there is a big queue so I rationalise that it’s not a big deal. Now I am paranoid that i have violated the sabbath. Is this grave matter. I read the CCC and don’t feel it hindered my observance of the sabbath but something in me is me feel guilty. I should have stopped and walked out and stuck to my principles.

 

[Lamafacaja]

For such an impulse to be considered “grave matter”, you must be unquestioningly aware that it’s grave matter, and then act on that impulse deliberately. The fact that you’re asking “Is it grave matter?” means that for at least that one time it wasn’t grave matter–for you.

If in the future, if you determine that it is grave after doing more research on the matter and talking to your confessor, then yes that would be a serious sin.

In my opinion, it would be wrong to turn Sundays into just another shopping day. I try to stay away from shopping on Sundays, too. But I’m not always perfect about it. I do shop on Sundays a little. In a pinch, if I really determine I need something like say gasoline, then I’ll only buy what is truly necessary to get through until Monday.

I do this because I don’t want to make other people have to work on Sundays.

 

[Bookcat]

Objectively speaking…It is not a sin to buy a drink on a Sunday (the Lords Day…which by the way is not the Sabbath…though people often think it is…).

A good read on Sunday in addition to the Catechism:

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

“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”. --Pope Benedict XVI (Emp. added)