<<970BC2F837BAC04AA6DCFB4AF7B35AE5>]>> hotly debated issue of legislating Sunday as a day of rest. Sunday is our mark of authority. With this, we are now beginning to see the history of the Sabbath controversy. Instead, you post secondary sources and hearsay as your "evidence". - It's not a Globe! Revelation 13 also tells us that Satan gave his power and authority to the Catholic Church. In a recent Catholic church newsletter, it stated, Perhaps the most And after having come, he remains, entirely at their disposal; they move him as they please, from one place to another; they may, if they wish, shut him up in the tabernacle, or expose him on the altar, or carry him outside the church; they may, if they choose, eat his flesh, and give him for the food of others. St. Alphonsus de Liguori, The Dignity and Duties of the Priest or Selva, pp. And God Himself is obliged to abide by the judgment of His priests, and either not to pardon or to pardon. faithful will understand why it is Sunday and not the Sabbath day that we churches at different times in history. Father Saenz and Father Gilbert lead their Catholic-based community members in prayer and charity, offering both Latin and Novus Ordo masses for all to attend. The word Sunday does not come anywhere in the Bible, so, without knowing it they are obeying the authority of the Catholic Church. The church is above the Bible, Why You Should Never Try To Contact The Dead, Powerful Answers To 13 Popular Sabbath Questions. now keep holy (Roman Catechism, 1985, emphasis supplied). it helps to pay the bills and keeps this website running. 0000001069 00000 n Sunday is an institution of the Roman Catholic Church, and those who observe the day observe a commandment of the Catholic Church. Imprimatur, John Cardinal McCloskey, archbishop of New York, With regard to the power of the priests over the real body of Jesus Christ, it is of faith that when they pronounce the words of consecration the Incarnate Word has obliged himself to obey and to come into their hands under the sacramental species. window.mc4wp.listeners.push( xb```b``d`e`de@ ^(= w7dD2YW. Furthermore, for Jews and Saturday sabbatarians to insist that The Precise, Correct Day does matter to Yahuwah, and then keep the seventh-day by the pagan, planetary calendar is even more inconsistent! When a man or a woman is honestly mist, Come Out of Her, My People! Someone Admits to Changing God's Law In a recent Catholic church newsletter, it stated, "Perhaps the most revolutionary change the Church ever did, happened in the first century [actually in happened in the fourth century]. Not long after Constantines first Sunday Law of A.D. 321, the Roman church made it official church doctrine by declaring it was a Jewish day. Let us then have nothing in common with the detestable Jewish crowd Eusebius, Life of Constantine 3, chapter 18, quoted in Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, 1979, Vol. The holy day, the Sabbath, was changed from Saturday to Sunday. Whose Day of Worship is Sunday? callback: cb 0000005915 00000 n 12, 3; translated in Phillip Schaffs History of the Christian Church, Vol. To conciliate the Pagans to nominal Christianity, Rome, pursuing its usual policy, took measures to get the Christian and Pagan festivals amalgamated, and, by a complicated but skilful adjustment of the calendar, it was found no difficult matter, in general, to get Paganism and Christianity now far sunk in idolatry . Is Mary, Mother of Jesus, a Perpetual Virgin? . Do you think that all of the other Sunday keeping churches realize they are practicing a major change or doctrine of the Catholic church by observing Sunday as the Sabbath? 'The day of the Lord' was chosen, not from any direction noted in the Scriptures, but from the (Catholic) Church's sense of its own powerPeople who think that the Scriptures should be the sole authority, should logically become 7th Day Adventists, and keep Saturday holy." - St. Catherine Church Sentinel, Algonac, Michigan, May 21, 1995. Her mother was 40 when she was born. It is the height of pride and rebellion against the Great and Living God! 0000002474 00000 n In endeavoring to show this distinction, not only was the observance of the seventh-day Sabbath transferred to the Julian Sunday, but all of the annual feasts which, up until that time were still observed, were replaced with popular pagan festivals, giving them a Christian slant and incorporating Christian names. . All knew that they were two different days bytwo distinct calendar systems. Thus, one of the reasons that the Sabbath was abolished was to get rid of any trace of the Jews in the religion of Christianity. Hence the church in these countries would seem to have said, Keep that old pagan name. Your sins are forgiven by the priest the same as if you knelt before Jesus Christ and told them to Christ Himself. Quoted in Lorraine Boettner, Roman Catholicism, p. 197. It is not really fair to accuse Roman Catholics of dishonesty when all along they have said that their church changed the day of worship to Sunday. Not to mention the almost successful extermination of the Jews mentioned in the book of Esther. . Heres why . . Here are just a few. If it were not enough for us that two of . On the venerable Day of the Sun let the magistrates and people residing in cities rest, and let all the workshops be closed. Constatine, 321 A.D. The popular complaint against the Christians was- they despise our sun-god, they have divine services on Saturday, they desecrate the sacred earth by burying their dead in it. Truth Triumphant, p. 170, Persia 335-375 AD (40 years persecution under Shapur 11th). If, however, they are found Judaizing, they shall be shut out [anathema excommunicated] from Christ. Council of Laodicea, c. A.D. 337, Canon 29, quoted in C.J. For these reasons the Church changed the Lord's day from Saturday to Sunday. Then the spiritual seed of Abraham fled to Pella, on the side of Jordan, where they found a safe place of refuge, and could serve their Master and keep his Sabbath. Euseblus Ecclesiastical History. The priest remits sins as God and that which he calls his body at the altar is adored as God by himself and by the congregation. Among these men were Justin Martyr, Ignatius, and Clement of Alexandria. Catholic Church. Professor Bill Schlegel provides invaluable tips on this subject in this excellent presentation. Preferentes autem in veneratione Dominicum diem si vacre voluerint, ut Christiani hoc faciat; quod si reperti fuerint Judaizere Anathema sint a Christo. Download or view as a flip book the most recent church bulletins containing, photos, stories, news and important event information. - Also in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1899 Edition, Vol. In keeping the Sunday they are following a law of the Catholic Church. By my divine power I abolish the Sabbath day and command you to keep holy the first day of the week. And lo! Of course the Catholic Church claims that the change was her act. God's Law. 563-564. Why? The Catholic Church designated Sunday as the day for corporate worship and gets full credit or blame for the change. From Business: Welcome to St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church is a bilingual (English-Spanish) parish with ministry and outreach in both. and the sun stood still. All of us believe many things in regard to religion that we do not find in the Bible. Now - as to the quote from the St. Catherine Catholic Church Sentinel, May 21, 1995 - this is an OPINION, not a Church teaching. There are a lot of people who rose and started to attack various fundamental doctrines of Gods true Church. and hear us? We are, then, infallible, and whatever may be our acts, we are not accountable for them but to ourselves. (Cormenin, History of the Popes, p. 243, as cited in R. W. Thompson, The Papacy and the Civil Power, p. 248), The pope is the supreme judge of the law of the land. was changed from Saturday to Sunday. Saint Catherine Catholic Church Sentinel, May 21, 1995 "It is evident that the popes can neither be bound nor unbound by any earthly power, nor even by that of the apostle [Peter], if he should return upon the earth; since Constantine the Great has recognized that the pontiffs held the place of God upon earth, divinity not being able to be . VI, can. The Protestant claiming the Bible to be the only guide of faith, has no warrant for observing Sunday.. . (8) Catholic Encyclopedia, Eusebius of Caesarea, www.NewAdvent.org. The same message is being made in an 1895 Catholic newspaper called The Catholic National: "The Pope is not only the representative of Jesus Christ, but he is Jesus Christ himself hidden under the veil of flesh." If that is not enough, read what the Saint Catherine Catholic Church Sentinel (May 21, 1995) said: In order, therefore, to the accomplishment of her original purpose, it now became necessary for the church to secure legislation extinguishing all exemption, and prohibiting the observance of the Sabbath so as to quench that powerful protest [against worship on Sunday]. In this matter the Seventh-day Adventist is the only consistent Protestant. 6 Proven Facts Why Church On Sunday Is Unbiblical, Identify The Antichrist Now With These 13 Shocking Characteristics. IX p. 416. (4) Letter by T. Enright, Bishop of St. Alphonsus Church, St. Louis, Missouri, June, 1905, emphasis supplied. Let us then have nothing in common with the detestable Jewish crowd.. But since Saturday, not Sunday, is specified in the Bible, isn't it curious that non-Catholics who profess to take their religion directly from the Bible and not the Church, observe Sunday instead of Saturday? "Is Saturday the seventh day according to the Bible and the Ten Commandments? what was the practice of Christians throughout history. 0000011056 00000 n The holy day, the Sabbath, was changed trailer Currently, the Vatican is asking the civil Question: Can we see any command in the Bible that the sanctity of the Sabbath was transferred on Sunday? The Catholic Church protests that it transferred Christian worship from the biblical Sabbath (Saturday) to Sunday, and that to try to argue that the change was made in the Bible is both dishonest and a denial of Catholic authority. })(); 'The Christian Life' is a non-profit organisation registered in Norway.