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Date Posted: 06:34:20 03/09/08 Sun
Author: Joan
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The Catholic Church on the Sabbath

Since this is a Catholic forum, I want to make sure that the actual Catholic teaching on the Sabbath is posted. It's OK to debate the Catholic teaching, but the actual Catholic teaching must be shown, so there can be no doubt about the authentic reality of this important Christian truth actually is.

[Sunday- fulfillment of the sabbath

2175 Sunday is expressly distinguished from the sabbath which it follows chronologically every week; for Christians its ceremonial observance replaces that of the sabbath. In Christ's Passover, Sunday fulfills the spiritual truth of the Jewish sabbath and announces man's eternal rest in God. For worship under the Law prepared for the mystery of Christ, and what was done there prefigured some aspects of Christ:107

Those who lived according to the old order of things have come to a new hope, no longer keeping the sabbath, but the Lord's Day, in which our life is blessed by him and by his death.108
2176 The celebration of Sunday observes the moral commandment inscribed by nature in the human heart to render to God an outward, visible, public, and regular worship "as a sign of his universal beneficence to all."109 Sunday worship fulfills the moral command of the Old Covenant, taking up its rhythm and spirit in the weekly celebration of the Creator and Redeemer of his people."]

If we're going to be very picky about words, and changing words, let's look at what "Sabbath" means. No Pope ever changed the Sabbath. Christians today (most of them) celebrate the Lord's Day, the 8th day, just as the earliest Christians did. The popes haven't changed God's word. :)

The earliest Christians were Jewish. The debate over allowing Gentiles to become Christian wasn't about not wanting Gentiles. It was about allowing Gentiles to become Christians without first converting to Judaism. Eventually Paul's view was accepted, and Gentiles could become Christians without becoming Jewish first. And we know that Christianity was eventually a religion in its own right, no longer a Jewish sect.

Joan

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