Can I keep the Sabbath holy via a Saturday vespers?

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I’ve been told that Vespers fulfils your mas obligation, which is how you keep the Sabbath day holy. Yet the Sabbath is at Sunday, so does it count as keeping that commandment?
 
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I’ve been told that Vespers fulfils your mas obligation,
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Told by whom?

Vespers are part of the liturgy is the hours. Certainly a worthwhile endeavor.

But the LOTH is not mass. Only mass on Sunday or the evening preceding can fulfill your mass obligation.

We keep the Lord’s Day, which is Sunday.
 
The Saturday vigil mass fulfills the Sunday obligation. Saturday vespers does not.
 
Hello.

First, no, Saturday vespers (evening prayers) does not fulfill the Mass obligation. The Saturday vigil, which is a Mass does, however.

As a point of information, Saturday is still the Sabbath, Sunday is the Lord’s day. 🙂

Since the Lord was resurrected on Sunday, we strive to keep that holy
 
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Shabbos is on Saturdays, as the Torah shows, not Sundays. Catholics say Jesus rose on Sunday in fulfillment of the Law, I say he rested on Shabbat!

Just a personal joke of mine, please no offense.
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You are correct and the Church, at least in the East, acknowledges Saturday as the sabbath.
 
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I’ve been told that Vespers fulfils your mas obligation, which is how you keep the Sabbath day holy. Yet the Sabbath is at Sunday, so does it count as keeping that commandment?
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It does in a number of Eastern Catholic Churches, but not for Latin Rite Catholics.
 
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I’ve been told that Vespers fulfils your mas obligation, which is how you keep the Sabbath day holy. Yet the Sabbath is at Sunday, so does it count as keeping that commandment?
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It does for Byzantine Catholics but not Latin Catholics.
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881.1. The Christian faithful are bound by the obligation to participate on Sundays and feast days in the Divine Liturgy, or according to the prescriptions or legitimate customs of their own Church sui iuris, in the celebration of the divine praises.
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Alright, sorry, I meant Saturday vigil. I’m aware the Torah says it’s at a Saturday, but I was thinking maybe the church did something with that to make Catholics celebrate it at Sunday, as I’ve always been told by Catholics that Sunday is their sabbath day.
 
Yes, the Saturday vigil does fulfill your Mass obligation. We still keep Sunday holy, though
 
The Sabbath is Saturday. The Lord’s Day is Sunday.

We keep the Lord’s Day holy, and mass obligation is tied to Sunday and other designated holy days. The church allows the fulfillment of the obligation on the day of or evening before.
 
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