Closed on Sundays

This is cool! CatholicVote.org is closed on Sundays! Here is part of the email they sent announcing this initiative.

In our hectic world, we at CatholicVote.org want to tell the world that Sunday is not simply just another day. As the Bible states: “The seventh day is a sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the Lord,” (Exodus 31:15).

A recent headline confirms the need for us to do something. The Annenberg Center for the Digital Future just announced that 28 percent of Americans interviewed last year said that they have been spending less time with members of their households. Only 11 percent said this in 2006.  While the researchers in that study didn’t assign a culprit, they did note that the trend correlates with the rise in Internet usage and a boom in social networking websites.

That’s why we’re encouraging people on Sunday to log off the Internet, Facebook and other sites. Of course, our Lord didn’t say ‘Thou Shalt Not Tweet on Sunday.’ But he did say, ‘Keep Holy the Sabbath.’ With this small step, we want to help reclaim the Lord’s Day as a day of worship and rest.

Our decision may surprise some. But in many ways we believe this effort will be our most important initiative. By encouraging our visitors to avoid our site on Sunday, we hope to spark a movement across many sites on the Internet. Even a small movement to respect Sunday could have a profound impact on our culture. If you think about it, every effort to reform our country, our politics, and our culture begins with what we do on Sunday.

The launch date of this new campaign is not coincidental. This new Sunday campaign is our way of honoring our Heavenly Father this Father’s Day.

Put Him first and He will take care of the rest.

Brian Burch

President

Sunday is a sacred day in our family. It’s a day to worship and honor God by doing what He said…resting. Since Adam and I were married this has been one of the more important weekly observations that we make. We don’t shop. We don’t eat out. We don’t do anything that would cause anyone else to work. Major house work and yard work is put on hold on this day. We make sure that all the errands and work is done on Saturday or the rest of the week. This may one day be the thing that keeps our kids from organized sports. But we firmly believe and live that it’s a day to go to Sunday Mass and enjoy the family that our Heavenly Father has blessed us with.

We don’t abstain from using the interent, but maybe we should.  I think it’s a neat idea!