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COMMERCIAL WORK
A type of work forbidden on Sundays and holy days unless required by necessity or done out of sincere Christian charity. Also called civil occupation, commercial work means buying and selling or trading in business for monetary gain.
All items in this dictionary are from Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.
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