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 experiences of people rather than treating liturgical time as separate from civil time. Writing for SettimanaNews, Bernardoni responds to an article by Giorgio Bozza, who suggested that the Church should limit the number of thematic days that compete with Sunday celebrations.

Bernardoni contends that religious and civil calendars overlap and shape one another. He notes that civil measures, such as traffic restrictions during an ecological Sunday, directly affect how parishioners attend Mass and who is able to participate. He suggests that the history of the Christian Sunday is intertwined with civil law.