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Today is
May 4, 2024
May -- Maia's month
Old French Mai
Old English Maius
Latin Maius
"of Maia"
Latin Maius mensis
"month of Maia"
Maius has always had 31 days.
Maia (meaning "the great one")
is the Italic goddess of spring, the
daughter of Faunus, and wife of Vulcan.
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– first month, ha Aviv, day 25
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Today’s Topic:
Yeshua /
Jesus is Lord of the Sabbath day
3 times in the Gospels
Matt.12 [8] For the Son of man is Lord even of the
sabbath day.
Mark.2 [28] Therefore the Son of man is Lord also
of the sabbath.
Luke.6 [5] And he said unto them, That
the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.
Sabbath - 111 matches in the TaNaKh
– know today as the Old Testament
Sabbath - 60 matches for Sabbath in the
Gospels and letters know today as the
New Testament
Roman Catholic and Protestant Confessions about Sunday
The vast majority of Christian churches today teach the observance
of Sunday, the first day of the week, as a time for rest and worship. Yet it is
generally known and freely admitted that the early Christians observed the
seventh day as the Sabbath.
How did this change come about?
History reveals that it was decades after the death of the
apostles that a politico-religious system repudiated the Sabbath of Scripture
and substituted the observance of the first day of the week.
The following quotations, all from Roman Catholic sources,
freely acknowledge that there is no Biblical authority for the observance of Sunday, that
it was the Roman Church that
changed the Sabbath to the first day of the week.
In the second portion of this
study are quotations from Protestants.
Undoubtedly all of these noted
clergymen, scholars, and writers kept Sunday, but
they all frankly admit that
there is no Biblical authority for a first-day Sabbath.
Roman Catholic Confessions
James Cardinal Gibbons, The Faith of our Fathers, 88th ed.,
pp. 89.
"But you may read the
Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and you will not find a single line
authorizing the sanctification of Sunday. The Scriptures enforce the religious
observance of Saturday, a day which we never sanctify."
Stephen Keenan, A
Doctrinal Catechism 3rd ed., p. 174.
Question:
Have you any other way of
proving that the Church has power to institute festivals of precept?
Answer:
Had she not such power, she
could not have done that in which all modern religionists agree with her-she
could not have substituted the observance of Sunday, the first day of the week,
for the observance of Saturday, the seventh day, a change for which there is no
Scriptural authority."
John Laux, A
Course in Religion for Catholic High Schools and Academies (1936),
vol. 1, P. 51.
Some theologians have held that God likewise
directly determined the Sunday as the day of worship in the New Law that He Himself has explicitly substituted the
Sunday for the Sabbath.
But this theory is now entirely abandoned.
It is now commonly held that
God simply gave His Church the power to set aside whatever day or days she
would deem suitable as Holy Days.
The (Catholic) Church chose Sunday, the first day of the week, and
in the course of time added other days as holy days."
Daniel Ferres, ed., Manual of
Christian Doctrine (1916), p.67.
Question:
How prove you that the (Catholic) Church hath power to command
feasts and holy days?
Answer:
By the very act of changing the
Sabbath into Sunday, which Protestants allow of, and
therefore they fondly contradict themselves, by keeping Sunday strictly, and
breaking most other feasts commanded by the same Church.'
James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of
Baltimore (1877-1921), in a signed letter.
Answer: yes
Is Sunday the first day of the
week and did the Church change the seventh day -Saturday - for Sunday, the
first day?
Answer: yes
Did Christ change the day?
Answer no!
"Faithfully yours, J. Card. Gibbons"
The Catholic Mirror, official publication of James Cardinal
Gibbons, Sept. 23, 1893.
The Catholic Church,
. . . by virtue of her divine mission, changed the day from Saturday to
Sunday."
Catholic Virginian Oct. 3, 1947, p. 9, art. "To Tell You the
Truth.
For example, nowhere in the
Bible do we find that Christ or the Apostles ordered that the Sabbath be
changed from Saturday to Sunday.
We have the commandment of God
given to Moses to keep holy the Sabbath day that is the 7th day of the week,
Saturday.
Today most Christians keep Sunday because it has been revealed to
us by the [Roman
Catholic] church outside the Bible."
Peter Geiermann, C.S.S.R., The Converts Catechism of Catholic Doctrine (1957),
p. 50.
Question:
Answer: Saturday is the Sabbath day.
Question: Why do we observe Sunday instead of
Saturday?
Answer: We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic Church transferred the
solemnity from Saturday to Sunday."
Martin J. Scott, Things Catholics Are Asked About (1927),p. 136.
Nowhere in the Bible is it
stated that worship should be changed from Saturday to Sunday
....
Now the Catholic Church
... instituted, by God's authority, Sunday as the day of worship.
This same Catholic
Church, by the same divine authority, taught the doctrine of Purgatory long before the Bible was
made.
We have, therefore, the same authority for Purgatory as we have for Sunday."
Peter R. Kraemer, Catholic Church Extension Society (1975),Chicago, Illinois.
Regarding the change from the
observance of the Sabbath to the Christian Sunday, I wish to draw your
attention to the facts:
1) That Protestants, who
accept the Bible as the only rule of faith and religion, should by all means go
back to the observance of the Sabbath. The fact that they do not, but on the
contrary observe the Sunday, stultifies them in the
eyes of every thinking man.
"2) We Catholics do not accept
the Bible as the only rule of faith.
Besides the Bible we have the
living Catholic Church, the
authority of the Church, as a rule to guide us.
We say, this Catholic Church, instituted by Christ
to teach and guide man through life, has the right to change the ceremonial laws of the Old
Testament and hence, we accept her change of the Sabbath to Sunday.
We frankly say, yes, the Catholic Church made this change, made
this law, as she made many other laws, for instance, the Friday abstinence, the unmarried priesthood, the
laws concerning mixed marriages, the regulation of Catholic marriages and a
thousand other laws.
It is always somewhat
laughable; to see the Protestant churches, in pulpit and legislation, demand
the observance of Sunday, of which there
is nothing in their Bible.
T. Enright, C.S.S.R., in a lecture at
Hartford, Kansas, Feb. 18, 1884.
I have repeatedly offered $1,000 to anyone who can prove
to me from the Bible alone that I am bound to keep Sunday holy.
There is no such law in the
Bible.
It is a law of the Catholic Church alone.
The Bible says, 'Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.'
The Catholic Church says: 'No. By my divine power I
abolish the Sabbath day and command you to keep holy the first day of the
week.'
The entire civilized world bows down in a reverent obedience to
the command of the Catholic Church.
Protestant Confessions
Protestant theologians and
preachers from a wide spectrum of denominations have been quite candid in
admitting that there is no Biblical authority for observing Sunday as a Sabbath.
Anglican/Episcopal
Isaac Williams, Plain Sermons on the Catechism , vol. 1, pp.334, 336.
And where are we told in the
Scriptures that we are to keep the first day at all?
We are commanded to keep the
seventh;
but we are
nowhere commanded to keep the first day ....
The reason why we keep the first
day of the week holy instead of the seventh is for the same reason that we
observe many other things, not because the Bible, but because the Catholic church has enjoined it."
Canon Eyton, The Ten Commandments ,
pp. 52, 63, 65.
"There is no word, no hint, in the New Testament about abstaining
from work on Sunday .... into the rest of Sunday no
divine law enters....
The observance of Ash Wednesday or Lent stands exactly on the
same footing as the observance of Sunday.
Bishop Seymour,
We have made the change from
the seventh day to the first day, from Saturday to Sunday, on the authority of the one Catholic
Church."
Baptist
Dr. Edward T. Hiscox, a paper read
before a New York ministers' conference, Nov. 13, 1893, reported in New York Examiner ,
Nov.16, 1893.
There was and is a commandment
to keep holy the Sabbath day, but that Sabbath day was not Sunday.
It will be said, however, and
with some show of triumph, that the Sabbath was transferred from the seventh to
the first day of the week …
Where can the record of such a
transaction be found?
Not in the New Testament
absolutely not.
To me it seems unaccountable
that Jesus, during three years'
intercourse with His disciples, often conversing with them upon the Sabbath
question . . . never alluded to any
transference of the day; also, that during forty days of His resurrection
life, no such thing was intimated.
Of course, I quite well know
that Sunday did come into use in early Christian history . . .
But what a pity it comes
branded with the mark of paganism, and christened with the name of the sun god,
adopted and sanctioned by the papal apostasy, and bequeathed as a sacred legacy
to Protestantism!
William Owen Carver, The Lord's Day in Our Day, p. 49.
There was never any formal or authoritative change from
the seventh-day Sabbath to the Christian first-day observance.
Congregationalist
Dr. R. W. Dale, The Ten
Commandments (New York: Eaton &Mains), p. 127-129.
... it
is quite clear that however rigidly or devotedly we may spend Sunday, we are
not keeping the Sabbath
'Me Sabbath was founded on a
specific Divine command.
We can plead no such command for the obligation to
observe Sunday ....
There is not a single sentence
in the New Testament to suggest that we incur any penalty by violating the
supposed sanctity of Sunday."
Timothy Dwight, Theology: Explained and Defended (1823),
Ser. 107, vol. 3, p. 258.
"
. . . the (Catholic) Christian
Sabbath [Sunday] is not in the Scriptures, and was not by the primitive Church
called the Sabbath."
Disciples of Christ
Alexander Campbell, The Christian Baptist, Feb.
2, 1824,vol. 1. no. 7, p. 164.
But,' say some, 'it was changed
from the seventh to the first day.' Where?
when? and by whom?
No; it never was changed, nor
could it be, unless creation was to be gone through again: for the reason
assigned must be changed before the observance, or respect to the reason, can
be changed!
It is all old wives' fables to
talk of the change of the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day. If it be
changed, it was that august personage changed it who
changes times and laws ex officio - I think his name is Doctor Antichrist.
First Day Observance , pp. 17, 19.
"The first day of the week
is commonly called the Sabbath. This is
a mistake.
The Sabbath of the Bible was
the day just proceeding the first day of the week.
The first day of the week is never
called the Sabbath anywhere in the entire Scriptures.
this also
an error to talk about the change of the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday.
There is not in any place in
the Bible any intimation of such a change."
Lutheran
The Sunday Problem, a study book of the United Lutheran Church (1923), p. 36.
We have seen how gradually the
impression of the Sabbath faded from the mind of the Christian Church, and how
completely the newer thought underlying the observance of the first day took
possession of the church.
We have seen that the
Christians of the first three centuries never confused one with the other, but
for a time celebrated both."
Augsburg Confession of Faith art. 28; written by Melanchthon, approved by
Martin Luther, 1530; as published in The Book of Concord of the
Evangelical Lutheran Church Henry Jacobs, ed. (1 91 1), p. 63.
They [Roman Catholics] refer to the Sabbath Day, a
shaving been changed into the Lord's Day, contrary to the Decalogue, as it
seems.
Neither is there any example
whereof they make more than concerning the changing of the Sabbath Day.
Great, say they, is the power
of the Catholics
Church, since it has dispensed with one of the Ten Commandments!
Dr. Augustus Neander, The History of the Christian Religion and Church Henry
John Rose, tr. (1843), p. 186.
The festival of Sunday, like
all other festivals, was always only a human ordinance, and it was far from the
intentions of the apostles to establish a Divine command in this respect, far
from them, and from the early apostolic Catholics Church, to transfer the laws of the
Sabbath to Sunday.
John Theodore Mueller, Sabbath or Sunday , pp. 15, 16.
"But they err in teaching that Sunday has taken the place of the Old
Testament Sabbath and therefore must be kept as the seventh day had to be kept
by the children of Israel ....
These churches err in their teaching, for
Scripture has in no way ordained the first day of the week in place of the
Sabbath. There is simply no law in the New Testament to that effect."
Methodist
Harris Franklin Rall, Christian
Advocate, July 2, 1942, p.26.
Take the matter of Sunday.
There are indications in the
New Testament as to how the church came to keep the first day of the week as
its day of worship, but there is no passage telling Christians to keep that
day, or to transfer the Sabbath to that day."
John Wesley, The Works of the Rev. John Wesley,
A.M., John Emory, ed. (New York: Eaton & Mains), Sermon 25,vol. 1, p. 221.
But, the moral law contained in
the ten commandments, and enforced by the prophets, he
[Christ] did not take away.
It was not the design of his
coming to revoke any part of this.
This is a law which never can
be broken ....
Every part of this law must
remain in force upon all mankind, and in all ages; as not depending either on
time or place, or any other circumstances liable to change, but on the nature
of God and the nature of man, and their unchangeable relation to each other."
Dwight L. Moody
D. L. Moody, Weighed and Wanting (Fleming H. Revell Co.: New York), pp. 47, 48.
The Sabbath was binding in
Eden, and it has been in force ever since.
This fourth commandment begins with the word 'remember,' showing that the Sabbath already existed when God Wrote the law on the tables of stone at Sinai.
How can men claim that this one
commandment has been done away with when they will admit that the other nine
are still binding?"
Presbyterian
T. C. Blake, D.D., Theology Condensed, pp.474, 475.
"The Sabbath is a part of
the decalogue - the Ten Commandments.
This alone forever settles the
question as to the perpetuity of the institution . . . .
Until, therefore, it can be
shown that the whole moral law has been repealed, the Sabbath will stand . . .
.
The teaching of Christ confirms
the perpetuity of the Sabbath."
CATHOLICISM SPEAKS
Sunday is a Catholic institution, and its
claims to observance can be defended only on Catholic principles . . .
From
beginning to end of scripture there is not a single passage that warrants the
transfer of weekly public worship from the last day of the week to the
first."--Catholic Press, Sydney,
Australia, August, 1900.
John Gilmary
Shea, in the "American Catholic Quarterly Review," January 1883.
It is well to remind the Presbyterians, Baptists, Methodists, and all other
Christians, that the Bible does not support them anywhere in their observance
of Sunday.
Sunday is an institution of the Roman Catholic
Church and those who observe
the day observe a commandment of the Catholic Church.
Priest Brady, in an address, reported in
the Elizabeth, N.J. "News" of March 18, 1903.
Have
you any other way of proving that the [Catholic]
Church has power to institute festivals of precept [to command holy days] ?"
Had she
not such power, she could not have done that in which all modern religionists
agree with her: She could not have substituted the observance of Sunday, the
first day of the week, for the observance of Saturday, the seventh day, a
change for which there is no Scriptural authority."—
Stephan Keenan, "A Doctrinal
Catechism," p. 176.
Reason and common sense demand the acceptance of one or the other of these
alternatives: either Protestantism and the keeping holy of Saturday, or
Catholicity and the keeping holy of Sunday.
Compromise is impossible.
"The Catholic Mirror," December
23, 1893.
The
Church chose Sunday, the first day of the week, and in the course of time added
other days, as holy days."
Vincent J. Kelly, "Forbidden Sunday
and Feast-Day Occupations," p. 2.
Protestants . . .
Accept
Sunday rather than Saturday as the day for public worship after the Catholic Church made the change . . .
But the
Protestant mind does not seem to realize that in accepting the Bible, in observing
the Sunday, they are accepting the authority of the spokesman for the church,
the Pope."
Our Sunday Visitor," February 5, 1950.
"We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty."
Pope Leo XIII, in an Encyclical Letter,
dated June 20, 1894.
Not the Creator of the Universe, in Genesis 2:1-3,--but the Catholic Church
"can claim the honor of having granted man a pause to his work every seven
days"
S.C. Mosna,
"Storia della
Domenica," 1969, pp. 366-367.
The Catholic National,"July
1895.
"If Protestants would follow the Bible, they should worship God on the
Sabbath Day. In keeping the Sunday they
are following a law of the Catholic Church."
Albert Smith, Chancellor of the Archdiocese
of Baltimore, replying for the Cardinal, in a letter dated February 10, 1920.
A Decree of the Council of Trent, quoted in
Philippe Labbe and Gabriel Cossart,
'The Most Holy Councils," Vol. 13, col. 1167.
Thus
the observance of Sunday by the Protestants is an homage they pay, in spite of
themselves, to the authority of the [Catholic] Church.
Monsignor Louis Segur,
"Plain Talk about the Protestantism of Today," p. 213.
We
observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic Church transferred the
solemnity from Saturday to Sunday."
Peter Geiermann,
CSSR, "A Doctrinal Catechism," 1957 edition, p. 50.
We
Catholics, then, have precisely the same authority for keeping Sunday holy
instead of Saturday as we have for every other article of our creed, namely,
the authority of the Church . . .
Whereas
you who are Protestants have really no authority for it whatever;
Both
you and we do, in fact, follow tradition in this matter; but we follow it,
believing it to be a part of God's word, and the [Catholic] Church to be its divinely
appointed guardian and interpreter;
you
follow it [the Catholic Church], denouncing it all the time as a fallible and
treacherous guide, which often 'makes the commandments of God of none effect'
quoting Matthew 15:6] ."
The Brotherhood of St. Paul,
"The Clifton Tracts," Vol. 4, tract 4, p. 15.
The Catholic Church changed the observance of the Sabbath to Sunday by right of
the divine, infallible authority given to her by her founder, Jesus Christ.
The
Protestant claiming the Bible to be the only guide of faith,
has no warrant for observing Sunday.
In this matter the Seventh-day Adventist is the only consistent Protestant.
The Catholic Universe Bulletin,"
August 14, 1942, p. 4.
In
closing for today,
Yes it
is sad, John said:
Moving
forward: 50 days later… Feast of Weeks – Pentecost - the Feast of
Harvest - in the 3rdmonth Sivan, June 16th 2024
Shabbat Shalom
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