Did the early Church believe Christ was born on Sunday?

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It’s not in scripture but I was reading this early Christian writing , and thought it was interesting.

“The apostles further appointed: On the first day of the week let there be service, and the reading of the holy scriptures, and the oblation [sacrifice of the Mass], because on the first day of the week * our Lord rose from the place of the dead, and on the first day of the week he arose upon the world, and on the first day of the week he ascended up to heaven, and on the first day of the week he will appear at last with the angels of heaven” (Didascalia*2 [A.D. 225]).

Would this possibly make a case that early Christians identified his birth on the Lord’s Day as well?*
 
On what grounds? It says that on the Lord’s Day these four things happened. I see no grounds for claiming that it says the fifth thing must also have happened that day.
 
I don’t recall seeing this in the Early Church Fathers, and I’m almost 20 volumes into that series.
 
jas84173 said:
It’s not in scripture but I was reading this early Christian writing , and thought it was interesting.

“The apostles further appointed: On the first day of the week let there be service, and the reading of the holy scriptures, and the oblation [sacrifice of the Mass], because on the first day of the week * our Lord rose from the place of the dead, and on the first day of the week he arose upon the world, and on the first day of the week he ascended up to heaven, and on the first day of the week he will appear at last with the angels of heaven” (Didascalia*2 [A.D. 225]).

Would this possibly make a case that early Christians identified his birth on the Lord’s Day as well?*

We don’t know the date let alone the day of the week. Dec 25 is just a tradition and was picked because of when the feast of the Annunciation is located.
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ProdigalSun said:
We don’t know the date let alone the day of the week. Dec 25 is just a tradition and was picked because of when the feast of the Annunciation is located.
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Or was the Annunciation back-dated from December 25th, once that date was settled-on?
 
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Or was the Annunciation back-dated from December 25th, once that date was settled-on?
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I’m pretty sure it is the other way around. The Annunciation came first. That is my understanding. I am certainly open to being proved wrong.
 
It looks like transferring the Ascension to Sunday is not something new 😛 His Ascension would not have been on the first day of the week like this says. The first chapter of Acts says He ascended 40 days after His Resurrection. Because of this, they can’t both be Sunday.

Since they didn’t get that basic day right, I wouldn’t put much faith in the others.
 
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