A while ago I posted about making Sunday a Lords day. you can read about it here.
Today Rachel posted This article from Fisheaters at DCF Message Board.
I haven't read the whole article yet but what I have read has been good.
Here is a bit from it:
"Instead of a Sunday," Baron K. told us, "the Russians have a day off. This happens at certain intervals which vary in different parts of the country. First they had a five-day week, with the sixth day off, then they had a nine-day work period, with the tenth day off; then again it was an eight-day week. What a difference between a day off and a Sunday! The people work in shifts. While one group enjoys its day off, the others continue to work in the factories or on the farms or in the stores, which are always open. As a result the over-all impression throughout the country was that of incessant work, work, work. The atmosphere was one of constant rush and drive; finally, we confessed to each other that what we were missing most was not a well-cooked meal, or a hot bath, but a quiet, peaceful Sunday with church bells ringing and people resting after prayer."
Since my post we have made more of an effort to have a family day on Sunday. We go to Mass as a family and make a conscious effort to avoid doing work that isn't necessary. This has made Saturday a bit more hectic but it is good to have a day that is resting and spending time with our children. The younger children particularly like it. We have taken them to the park for a play, spent an afternoon scrapbooking and had friends over for lunch and coffee. We thought we would pray the rosary and Devine Mercy Chaplet as a family but that hasn't happened yet. Maybe next week we will.
After reading some of the article I want to make a few more changes. It would be good to read the Sunday readings and Gospel as a family on Saturday night. It would be good to pray the rosary then too. Now that the weather is nice we could walk to Mass.
What do you do on Sunday to make it the Lord's day?
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5 comments:
Good for you Therese! Sunday is a forgotten time it seems. We try to avoid any kind of commercial shopping on Sundays (but if we need a gallon of milk, we aren't scrupulous about running to a mini-mart to get one). We also try to include at least the Rosary in our day. The housework is on "easy" mode... so it's a bit messier on Sundays but it's not too bad. Today we are going to the kite festival... little family activities like this are nice. Saturdays tend to be our work-around the house days, or shopping etc. But it's so nice to take it easy on Sunday...
Thanks Ellie. I have noticed since changing our Sundays our children don't seem to fight as much. I think it is because we are really spending time with them, not spending time doing our own thing. I keep telling Steve that one day they will not be here and then we can do our own thing all we like.
We've tried very hard to leave the day open to family time and church. In general, it works pretty well, and even for a mom with out a "job" outside the home it really feels like a day off. My only gripe is that the schools (even our parish school) still find it acceptable to schedule sports practices and games on the Lord's Day.
Glad your son is feeling better!
Jane
When I was growing up our school sports days were on a Sunday. I didn't really think about it much or that it was possibly wrong.
When our children started going to the same school, a friend of mine that had children there said to me that it was scandolous that the school had this on a Sunday.I can see now that she was right. The school our children attend now has it on a Friday.
It is good to have the day of on Sunday isn't it Jane.
God bless
Therese
We work so hard during the week, and being so German in trait we cannot help but need to work...so we make a conscious effort to relax and rest on Sunday..going to the beach, museum, walk, anything....even taking a nap in the afternoon. And always mass.
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