Comments on: Monday, 23rd Week in Ordinary Time http://redemptoristpreacher.com/2010/09/06/monday-23rd-week-in-ordinary-time-2/ Daily Reflections on Scripture Thu, 08 Nov 2012 12:46:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: redemptoristpreacher http://redemptoristpreacher.com/2010/09/06/monday-23rd-week-in-ordinary-time-2/#comment-199 Tue, 07 Sep 2010 03:16:33 +0000 http://redemptoristpreacher.com/?p=1031#comment-199 Yes, we have the same situation here in Canada. But I don’t know what the initial cause of the shift was. The Sunday vigil mass was an option for as long as I can remember but I do remember days when there was no business conducted on Sunday except for maybe at a gas station. Then it seems that the big box stores made a plea for an exemption and then before long the smaller stores needed to stay open to compete. I am not sure that anyone is to blame other then to say that commerce trumped religion. I have been happy to see that some people I have met have kept the Sabbath mentality even though they can no longer observe it on a Sunday. One family I knew came to mass faithfully on Monday evening and brought their offering envelope with them because that was what worked for them. Perhaps not orthodox but certainly meeting the spirit of the law.

]]> By: Victor S E Moubarak http://redemptoristpreacher.com/2010/09/06/monday-23rd-week-in-ordinary-time-2/#comment-198 Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:33:44 +0000 http://redemptoristpreacher.com/?p=1031#comment-198 This is a good post – and good of you for taking the day off. Happy Labor Day. In the UK we have it on 1 May.

Anyway … whilst I agree with Sunday being a day of rest, sadly this has been erroded in modern society of late. But to be fair, the Catholic Church (here in the UK at least) did not help in this respect. For some years now it has allowed people to go to Mass on Saturday evenings and this “counts” instead of Sunday – thus implying they made a deal with God to move the day of rest by a few hours. As a result, many employers have enforced Sunday working – I know this from experience – claiming that you can go to church on Saturday instead.

Is it the same in Canada?

God bless you.

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