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José María Pardo Sáenz
Priest and Professor of Theology
University of Navarra

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"Sunday is the day of rest in the family. Every one of the loves that hold the family together calls out for its own space and time. Give them time, and your whole family will have the opportunity to be itself, to experience love."


"Through Sunday rest, daily concerns and tasks can find their proper perspective: the material things about which we worry give way to spiritual values; in a moment of encounter and less pressured exchange, we see the true face of the people with whom we live. Even the beauties of nature — too often marred by the desire to exploit, which turns against man himself — can be rediscovered and enjoyed to the full."

John Paul II, Apostolic Letter Dies Domini, on keeping the Lord's day holy, 31 May 1998, no 67.

 
Commentary

For many people, the weekend is the only time they can be with their family. Ordinary activities like eating together around one table, chatting together over a cup of coffee without the television on, praying the rosary together, enjoying a film, going out for a picnic after Sunday Mass together – these are ways of resting that are totally normal and human, yet have far-reaching importance for the inner life of the family.

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