Daniel 9:4 (RSB)
"And I prayed unto Yahweh my Elohim, and made my confession, and said, O Yahweh, the great and dreadful El, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;"
Does the Bible support the change to Sunday?
"Is not every Christian obliged to sanctify Sunday and to abstain on that day from unnecessary servile work? Is not the observance of this law among most prominent of our sacred duties? 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. " - James Cardinal Gibbons, The Faith of Our Fathers (1917 edition), p. 72-73 (16th edition, p 111, 88th edition, p. 89).
"For example, nowhere in the Bible do we findd 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 the holy rhe 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."
Who made Sunday Holy?
"Perhaps the boldest thing, the most revolutionary change the Church ever did, happened in the first century. The holy day, the Sabbath, was changed from Saturday to Sunday. 'The day of the Lord' was chosen, not from any direction noted in the Scriptures, but from the (Catholic) Church's sense of it's own power. ..People who think that the Scriptures should be the sole authority, should logically become 7th Day Adventists, amd keep Saturday holy." - St. Catherine Church Sentinel, Algonac, Michigan, May 21, 1995.
"Question - Which is the Sabbath day?
"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, in the council of Laodicea (A.D. 364), transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday. " - Peter Geiermann, C.S.S.R., The Convert's Catechism of Catholic Doctrine, p. 50, 3rd edition, 1957.
Whose Day of Worship is Sunday?
"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. - Preist Brady, in an address reported in The News, Elizabeth, New Jersey, March 18, 1903.
"They [the Protestants] deem it their duty to keep the Sunday holy. Why? Because the Catholic Church tells them to do so. They have no other reason... The observance of Sunday thus comes to be an ecclesiastical law entirely distinct from the divine law of Sabbath observance... The author of the Sunday law... is the Catholic Church." - Ecclesiastical Review, February 1914.
Who Do We Reverence by Keeping Sunday Holy?
"It was the Catholic church which... has transferred this rest to Sunday in remembrance of the resurrection of our Lord. Therefore 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.
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