Working on the Lord's Day

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Hi everyone, I recently got a message from one of my co-workers asking if I could do a shift swap with her on an upcoming Sunday. She seems pretty desperate and everyone else to be unable to help out. Due to how our timetable is, I’m really the only one who can help. It is an additional shift, and I do not need the money. Bearing in mind our Sunday obligation (there is a mass that I could make that day) and Matthew 12, do you guys have any helpful advice on whether or not I should do the shift?

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I think working the shift would be helping someone in need as Jesus did in Matthew 12. Personally, I would decide based on why the coworker needs off. If they decided last minute they want to go to a concert that day, I probably wouldn’t work. If they need off to take care of a sick relative, I’d probably work.
 
Daniel27 said:
Hi everyone, I recently got a message from one of my co-workers asking if I could do a shift swap with her on an upcoming Sunday. She seems pretty desperate and everyone else to be unable to help out. Due to how our timetable is, I’m really the only one who can help. It is an additional shift, and I do not need the money. Bearing in mind our Sunday obligation (there is a mass that I could make that day) and Matthew 12, do you guys have any helpful advice on whether or not I should do the shift?

Thanks everyone for reading this!
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You could also attend a Mass on Saturday evening which fulfills the Sunday obligation.
 
If you can still get to Mass, it would be fine for you to work and God would smile on your doing a good deed for your coworker.
Be at peace.
 
You can take the shift. The Church doesn’t teach you cannot work on Sunday.

It would be a charitable thing to help your coworker out.
 
Willing_Spirit said:
I think working the shift would be helping someone in need as Jesus did in Matthew 12. Personally, I would decide based on why the coworker needs off. If they decided last minute they want to go to a concert that day, I probably wouldn’t work. If they need off to take care of a sick relative, I’d probably work.
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Great answer.

Love our neighbour as ourselves can mean helping them out this way.

Happy Thanksgiving.
 
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