Working on Sundays.

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I have lost my job.

I need another job fast.

Most jobs now require working on weekends whether every week or every other week.

Do I ignore these jobs and just go for jobs where I don’t on sundays or is it acceptable now?

I have always been confused as I usually hear “servile works”.

What do I do?

I cannot afford to be out of work.
 
You can work on Sunday. Some people in my parish do. Hopefully, your parish has more than one mass time you can attend (Saturday vigil, for example). Or a church near your new place of employment (I am praying for your success in finding a job!) may have masses at times that would work best.

Good luck!
 
For most professions I do not agree with working Sunday’s. The Lord said keep holy the Sabbath day.

What profession are you in?
 
Working on Sundays is not ideal, but if you need to, you need to. You would not be expected to pass up a job that would allow you to support yourself and your family because it required you to work on Sunday.
 
For five years I had two part time jobs. I worked both on Sundays. If I had refused I would have been unemployed and accused of refusing to work. And unemployed people are often accused of being lazy. Not much choice there.
 
My mother had emergency cancer surgery on a Sunday. Thank God the doctors, nurses, and the rest of the team were there at work.

First of all, if I’m not mistaken, Sunday and the “sabbath” are not necessarily equivalent. Second of all, I’ve always been of the understanding that this commandment was primarily so that servants would be able to get rest once a week, although I don’t remember where I read that.

Jesus didn’t have a problem with breaking the “rules” about what you could or could not do on the sabbath and in fact got called on it a couple times. Once, He made the following statement:

Mark 2:27
Then he said to them, “The sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath.

If you work a job where you are working 7 days a week and have no time for reflection, or your family, or any sort of “regenerating” your spirit, then I think you need to consider this commandment. Otherwise, follow the example of Jesus. If you are hungry, go ahead and pick grain on the sabbath. If your animal is in trouble, rescue it on the sabbath. If someone needs healing, go ahead and heal on the sabbath, etc …

Also, in case they are relevant:

Gal 4:8-11
At a time when you did not know God, you became slaves to things that by nature are not gods; but now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and destitute elemental powers? Do you want to be slaves to them all over again? You are observing days, months, seasons, and years. I am afraid on your account that perhaps I have labored for you in vain.

Col 2:16
Let no one, then, pass judgment on you in matters of food and drink or with regard to a festival or new moon or sabbath.

Alan
 
I’m a coordinator of religious ed in a parish; I work on Sundays. 😉

I think most jobs have to make some sort of allowance for people to attend church on weekends. Go Saturday evening if you can’t go Sunday. My husband and I go together on Saturday evening because I work Sunday morning.
 
Better to have a job and work Sundays than be unemployed, homeless, and starving.
 
Catholic90 said:
Better to have a job and work Sundays than be unemployed, homeless, and starving.
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Amen!!

To the OP, my husband has been unemployed for over a year,
so I know how hard things can be. I will pray for you!! 🙂
 
yy1267 said:
I have lost my job.

I need another job fast.

Most jobs now require working on weekends whether every week or every other week.

Do I ignore these jobs and just go for jobs where I don’t on sundays or is it acceptable now?

I have always been confused as I usually hear “servile works”.

What do I do?

I cannot afford to be out of work.
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A week are so back there was an insert in the church bulletin called

Sabbath Moments in a Busy World
By: Susan K. Rowland

I found it to be a very good read.

Seems it’s not what day that is Sabbath, but a day that is keep Sabbath. A day to rest, and praise God.
 
What if you work a night shift?

Saturday night so you finish sunday morning, how does that work?
 
I work weekends so that I can be home with our kids during the week. My workplace kindly gives me Sunday morning off to attend church.
 
srferdave said:
For most professions I do not agree with working Sunday’s. The Lord said keep holy the Sabbath day.

What profession are you in?
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I would take a wild guess that doctors, midwives, nurses, and other health care professionals, plus law enforcement officers, firefighters and other public safety professionals working on Sunday are agreeable with you? 😉
 
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