You are making it clear that you have not read the article.
I got a few paragraphs in, and stopped. The premise is faulty, so it’s like reading a very detailed account of taking down a strawman. I don’t really see the point.
If you know of some choice gems buried within, by all means feel free to share them. I’m generally an open-minded individual, and I like discussing things with people I disagree with. But I’m not going to develop your case for you.
“Sunday is our mark or authority...the church is above the Bible, and this transference of Sabbath observance is proof of that fact.”
Catholic Record of London, Ontario, September 1, 1923.
“Is Saturday the seventh day according to the Bible and the Ten Commandments? I answer yes.
Is Sunday the first day of the week and did the Church change the seventh day - Saturday - for Sunday, the first day? I answer yes.
Did Christ change the day’? I answer no!”
“Faithfully yours, J. Card. Gibbons.” James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, Md. (1877-1921), in a signed letter.
“Question. - How prove you that the Church hath power to command feasts and holy days?
“Answer. - By the very act of changing 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.
“Question. - How prove you that?
“Answer. - Because by keeping Sunday, they acknowledge the Church’s power to ordain feasts, and to command them under sin: and by not keeping the rest by her commanded, they again deny, in fact, the same power.”
An Abridgment of the Christian Doctrine, composed by Henry Tuberville, p. 58.
“Protestantism, in discarding the authority of the (Roman Catholic) Church, has no good reasons for its Sunday theory, and ought logically to keep Saturday as the Sabbath.” John Gilmary Shea, American Catholic Quarterly Review, January 1883.
“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.” Catholic Virginian, October 3, 1947, p. 9, article “To Tell You the Truth.”
“Most Christians assume that Sunday is the biblically approved day of worship. 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. If Protestantism wants to base its teachings only on the Bible, it should worship on Saturday.” Rome’s Challenge www.immaculateheart.com/maryonline Dec 2003
"We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic Church transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday." The Convert's Catechism of Catholic Doctrine (1957): 50
Yeah those sources are massively retarded. The Roman Communion may believe all that crap, but it has nothing to do with the Holy Tradition.
Orthodox Worship is every day of the week. Divine Liturgy is usually observed every Sunday, in honor of the Resurrection. But there’s no reason the Divine Liturgy can’t be observed any day or every day - but just once per day, per priest/parish. Usually that fullness happens in monastic communities.
“Keeping the Sabbath” is not the same thing as “going to Church on Sunday”. Jesus Christ is the Sabbath. We Keep the Sabbath by being in Communion with His Church, observing the Signs and Seasons we received from the Holy Fathers, which includes, but is not limited to, the Holy Scriptures.
The idea that we “only worship on Sunday instead of Saturday like we used to” is patent nonsense. The entire Festal Menaion has services every single day. In fact, today is a day we go in and worship, because it’s Theophany - the Baptism of the Lord. Notice; it’s not a Sunday, but rather a Tuesday. Might aa well bitch that we’re worshiping on a Tuesday.
Because of these extremely basic, fundamental facts, the entire argument is completely irrelevant.
We observe the Tradition we received from the Holy Fathers, who’ve been doing the same thing since the Apostles, who learned it from Jesus Christ Himself. We simply cannot be bothered with all this silliness. We know what we are doing.
(post is archived)