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Krisdun
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rather than Saturday which was termed the last day of the week.
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At what point in the history of early Christians was the sabbath moved to a Sunday?
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krayzevuze
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In the first century, soon after the leaving ofthe Lord:
Some religious organizations (Seventh-day Adventists, Seventh-Day Baptists, and certain others) claim that Christians must not worship on Sunday but on Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath. They claim that, at some unnamed time after the apostolic age, the Church “changed” the day of worship from Saturday to Sunday.
However, passages of Scripture such as Acts 20:7, 1 Corinthians 16:2, Colossians 2:16-17, and Revelation 1:10 indicate that, even during New Testament times, the Sabbath is no longer binding and that Christians are to worship on the Lord’s day, Sunday, instead.
The early Church Fathers compared the observance of the Sabbath to the observance of the rite of circumcision, and from that they demonstrated that if the apostles abolished circumcision (Gal. 5:1-6), so also the observance of the Sabbath must have been abolished.
The following quotations show that the first Christians understood this principle and gathered for worship on Sunday.
Some religious organizations (Seventh-day Adventists, Seventh-Day Baptists, and certain others) claim that Christians must not worship on Sunday but on Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath. They claim that, at some unnamed time after the apostolic age, the Church “changed” the day of worship from Saturday to Sunday.
However, passages of Scripture such as Acts 20:7, 1 Corinthians 16:2, Colossians 2:16-17, and Revelation 1:10 indicate that, even during New Testament times, the Sabbath is no longer binding and that Christians are to worship on the Lord’s day, Sunday, instead.
The early Church Fathers compared the observance of the Sabbath to the observance of the rite of circumcision, and from that they demonstrated that if the apostles abolished circumcision (Gal. 5:1-6), so also the observance of the Sabbath must have been abolished.
The following quotations show that the first Christians understood this principle and gathered for worship on Sunday.
The Didache
“But every Lord’s day . . . gather yourselves together and break bread, and give thanksgiving after having confessed your transgressions, that your sacrifice may be pure. But let no one that is at variance with his fellow come together with you, until they be reconciled, that your sacrifice may not be profaned” ( Didache 14 [A.D. 70]).The Letter of Barnabas
“We keep the eighth day [Sunday] with joyfulness, the day also on which Jesus rose again from the dead” ( Letter of Barnabas 15:6–8 [A.D. 74]).
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Fauken
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Sunday isn’t the Sabbath. Catholics celebrate Mass on Sundays because of the Resurrection, nor because it’s the Sabbath.
It wasn’t. The Sabbath always was and remains Saturday.rather than Saturday which was termed the last day of the week.
Sunday is not the Sabbath. It’s the Lord’s Day.
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Krisdun
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God said to keep the sabbath holy so are we as Catholics disobeying that commandment?
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Diaconia
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The Church never changed the sabbath, which still refers to Saturday.
On the authority of Christ our True God, (given to His apostles) the Church changed the day of observance to Sunday, because of the Resurrection.
The day when Christ conquered sin for all time is vastly greater than the day of rest following the Creation.
Khrystos Voskres!
Deacon Christopher
On the authority of Christ our True God, (given to His apostles) the Church changed the day of observance to Sunday, because of the Resurrection.
The day when Christ conquered sin for all time is vastly greater than the day of rest following the Creation.
Khrystos Voskres!
Deacon Christopher
We obey that commandment by worshipping on Sunday. The moral part of the commandment binds: we are to give God the worship that’s due him. The ceremonial part does not. We are Christians. We are not Jews. We do not observe the obsolete Sabbath. We observe its fulfillment.God said to keep the sabbath holy so are we disobeying that commandment?
You object, take it up with St. Paul.
“Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath.” Colossians 2:16.
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The practice of meeting together on the first day of the week (Sunday) for the celebration of the Eucharistic Sacrifice is indicated in Acts 20:7; 1 Corinthians 16:2; in Apocalypse 1:10, it is called the Lord’s day.
Our Lord’s Resurrection occurred on Sunday…
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Our Lord’s Resurrection occurred on Sunday…
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