Sunday should be connected to human life rather than isolated from it

Marco Bernardoni argues that the Church must integrate the Sunday liturgy with the lived experience of people rather than treating liturgical time as separate from civil time. Writing for SettimanaNews, Bernardoni responds to Giorgio Bozza, who suggested that the Church should limit the number of themed Sundays to prevent them from competing with the core meaning of the day.

Bernardoni notes that civil and ecclesiastical calendars overlap. He points out that civil measures, such as traffic restrictions during an ecological Sunday, directly affect how parishioners attend Mass and who is able to participate. He contends that distinguishing liturgical time from civil time is difficult because the weekly schedule is a social construction where religious and civil plans shape one another.