Working with religious education of children and adults I see a bad trend: the over managed life. So much so that people are putting their social and personal activities above their religious duties and relationship with God. The Third Commandment is no longer holding sway; the Church's teaching on keeping Sunday for worship and family seeming is out the window. Of course, people strenuously rebut this accusation. Truth be told, you can't deny that there are activities competing with a proper Catholic observance of Sunday. Praying in Church --with a stable faith community-- is not merely an obligation (speaking of Sunday Mass as "an obligation" is a mediocre way of approaching the question of faith, relationship with God and Church observance).
Archbishop George Lucas, the Omaha Archbishop wrote to his priests and others about keeping Sunday for prayer and families activities and to not schedule sports and other "work stuff on Sundays so to distract from what we are to do: worship God. This is not a policy; this is a teaching, this is guidance for the good of the person. Read what Archbishop Lucas has to say about keeping the Sunday Sabbath.
The news story is here.
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