At What Time Does Sunday End In The Roman Catholic Church

[Jimmmy]

I will try again! And there is no category for my question as there is no religion category listed!
I have been a member for years though I ask few questions!

We were having a discussion about religion at work, when some one said the RC religious Sunday ends at noon, after that they could sin their lives away, that's why on the continent they never have ant sports starting to about one pm on a Sunday!
None of the rest of us had heard that, that's why I have tried to get a sensible answer here!

Jimmy

[tonyav]

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Society-and-Culture/Religion-and-Spirituality/

[Mamyalynne]

// after that they could sin their lives away//

He/She is winding you up.

[Buenchico]

Hi Jimmmy.

Please accept my apologies for considering you to be a potential spammer on your other thread. (We get loads of them here and they're getting ever more cunning).

The Roman Catholic church seems to be happy to start Sunday a bit earlier than everyone else. (Quote: "Since the Second Vatican Council, the time for fulfilling the obligation to attend Mass on Sunday or a Holy Day of Obligation now begins on the evening of the day before, and most parish churches do celebrate the Sunday Mass also on Saturday evening". Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_in_the_Catholic_Church#Time_of_celebration_of_Mass ).

However I'm unaware of anything which seeks to end it any earlier than elsewhere. My friend is a practising RC and he always arrives at the pub on a Sunday evening after coming from Benediction, so he's definitely still 'being religious' well after noon.

I suspect that the 'information' you've been given relates to the idea that Catholics believe that they're absolved of all sin once they've given confession which, prior to Sunday Mass being allowed to occur on Saturday evenings, would typically probably have occurred around midday on a Sunday. That would mean that they 'started with a clean sheet' on Sunday afternoons (which isn't quite the same thing as being free to sin though!)

[tamborine]

Sunday is 24hrs even for RCs ;)

Confession is to repent sins & receive absolution in preparation for communion.

Not easy to tell another your sins. Only an insincere confessor would repeat them
& the whole point of communion is then void.