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Catholic21
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If you decide you want to work a shift that includes working on Sunday, but you go to the Saturday Vigil Mass, does this break the commandment even if you fulfill the Mass obligation?
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Cor_ad_Cor
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Do you need to work or you’re voluntarily choosing to go to work (and not working wouldn’t place a burden upon you)?
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DarkLight
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I would also add “and is it a job that needs to be done on Sunday”?Do you need to work or you’re voluntarily choosing to go to work (and not working wouldn’t place a burden upon you)?
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CoffeeFanatic
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I’ve always wondered. For those that work jobs, like mine, that require one to work every fourth weekend, and is a job that must be done by someone, how does that fit into the mass obligation requirement for Catholics? Going to a vigil mass would not be possible for someone that works twelve-hour shifts.
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Tis_Bearself
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I personally don’t worry about it. I go to Mass on Sunday (or to the Saturday vigil), I do whatever prayerful or family activities might fit the day, and I use the rest of the day in the way that works for me.
The prohibition against working was essentially to make sure people were able to attend Mass and spend family time in eras when people pretty much worked dawn to dusk on every day of the year that weather didn’t get in their way. Jesus would have been fine with flexible schedules and doing necessary jobs. He did not expect the world to come to a screeching halt on the Sabbath.
The prohibition against working was essentially to make sure people were able to attend Mass and spend family time in eras when people pretty much worked dawn to dusk on every day of the year that weather didn’t get in their way. Jesus would have been fine with flexible schedules and doing necessary jobs. He did not expect the world to come to a screeching halt on the Sabbath.
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stpurl
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Talk to your priest, but in this situation I would imagine that the Catholic’s obligation to attend Mass on that particularly 4th weekend would be abrogated, i.e., the priest would ‘lift’ the obligation due to the fact that the person would not be able to find a Mass to attend outside of the person’s work obligations for that weekend.
Now if for example the person worked 8 hour shirts 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sat and Sun that weekend, and the local college offered a 9 p.m. Sunday Mass (as for example at UVA, Mr. Jefferson’s university during the school year), then the person could probably attend the 9 p.m. Sunday Mass after his work is over if he lived in the area.
But in most places the only available times for Sat and Sunday Masses range from say 4 to 5:30 p.m. Sat and 7:30 to 1 p.m. or so on Sunday, and there’s no way a person working the above schedule could make any of those Masses. The rule is, if something is impossible, one is not ‘held’ to it, so really the priest doesn’t even need to lift the obligation for something ‘impossible’, but it would probably make a person feel better to hear it from their priest.
Now if for example the person worked 8 hour shirts 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sat and Sun that weekend, and the local college offered a 9 p.m. Sunday Mass (as for example at UVA, Mr. Jefferson’s university during the school year), then the person could probably attend the 9 p.m. Sunday Mass after his work is over if he lived in the area.
But in most places the only available times for Sat and Sunday Masses range from say 4 to 5:30 p.m. Sat and 7:30 to 1 p.m. or so on Sunday, and there’s no way a person working the above schedule could make any of those Masses. The rule is, if something is impossible, one is not ‘held’ to it, so really the priest doesn’t even need to lift the obligation for something ‘impossible’, but it would probably make a person feel better to hear it from their priest.
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