Disputation — Bontempi, Palladium Theologicum V · from Schola Thomistica
Disputation VIII: On the Observance of Feast Days
As God is immense, so He bound His worship to certain places, namely temples, so that it is unlawful without sin to perform anything profane in them: so too, though He is Eternal, He commanded that certain days be kept free for Him and rested from every servile work. But just as God ordained many other things in the law of grace so as to leave their execution to His Church according to place and time, so too the sanctification of the feast day, though it has a Divine origin, nevertheless has its determination of time from the Church, as will appear from what follows immediately.
Uti Deus immensus, ita quibusdam locis, nempe templis, suum alligavit cultum, ut absque piaculo non liceat in his profanum quidpiam operari: sic etiam, licet AEternus sit, sibi nonnullis diebus praecepit vacandum, et ab omni servili opere feriandum. Verum sicut alia plurima ita in lege gratiae Deus ordinavit, ut ea pro loco, et tempore Ecclesiae suae exequenda reliquerit; sic festi Diei sanctificatio, esto Divinam habeat originem, ecclesiasticam tamen habet temporis determinationem, ut e proxime sequentibus patebit.
Within this disputation
- Question I: On the origin of feast days
- Question II: Whose it is to institute feasts to be kept under mortal sin
- Question III: Whether mortal sins on a feast are forbidden by this precept
- Question IV: Whether lawful liberal work becomes servile because it is done for gain
- Question VI: What length of servile labor makes a grave violation of a feast
- Question VII: On the causes excusing from violation of a feast
- Question VIII: Whether, having heard Mass only, it is forbidden to spend the whole feast day in idleness