The arguments for Sunday

[Stravinsk]

^^

But can you answer the point about finding the Sabbath if you were in the scenario I described earlier?

It is said that there is a 7 day cycle. This is true, and observable for many things, as the article you linked points out.

- However -

There is no reason to assume it is a continuously cycling 7 day cycle, and has been so from the beginning.

The ancient Israelites also celebrated "new moon" day. Ever wonder why? The moon is heavenly body, and therefore it is a sign for one of the "days, seasons or years" according to Genesis.

It is said and assumed that the Jews never lost Sabbath.

Scripture says different:

Lamentations 2:

The Lord is like an enemy;
he has swallowed up Israel.
He has swallowed up all her palaces
and destroyed her strongholds.
He has multiplied mourning and lamentation
for Daughter Judah.

6
He has laid waste his dwelling like a garden;
he has destroyed his place of meeting.
The Lord has made Zion forget
her appointed festivals and her Sabbaths;
in his fierce anger he has spurned
both king and priest.

How then did Israel find it again? Did they ever find it again? How do we know? Because they could not have found it if the 7 day cycle has been continually cycling and they forgot which day was Sabbath.

 

[psalms 91]

Honestly you are correct and the only way you will really know is to ask God and let the Holy Spirit guide you

 

[Alithis]

I have heard the arguments that no one knows the seventh day cycle anymore and especially which day is the Sabbath. God spent some time specifically training His people on that point.

Exodus 16 ► Manna and Quail

1 The whole Israelite community set out from Elim and came to the Desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had come out of Egypt. 2 In the desert the whole community grumbled against Moses and Aaron. 3 The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the Lord’s hand in Egypt! There we sat around pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted, but you have brought us out into this desert to starve this entire assembly to death.” 4 Then the Lord said to Moses, “I will rain down bread from heaven for you. The people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test them and see whether they will follow my instructions. 5 On the sixth day they are to prepare what they bring in, and that is to be twice as much as they gather on the other days.” 6 So Moses and Aaron said to all the Israelites, “In the evening you will know that it was the Lord who brought you out of Egypt, 7 and in the morning you will see the glory of the Lord, because he has heard your grumbling against him. Who are we, that you should grumble against us?” 8 Moses also said, “You will know that it was the Lord when he gives you meat to eat in the evening and all the bread you want in the morning, because he has heard your grumbling against him. Who are we? You are not grumbling against us, but against the Lord.” 9 Then Moses told Aaron, “Say to the entire Israelite community, ‘Come before the Lord, for he has heard your grumbling.’ ” 10 While Aaron was speaking to the whole Israelite community, they looked toward the desert, and there was the glory of the Lord appearing in the cloud. 11 The Lord said to Moses, 12“I have heard the grumbling of the Israelites. Tell them, ‘At twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am the Lord your God.’ ” 13 That evening quail came and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp. 14 When the dew was gone, thin flakes like frost on the ground appeared on the desert floor. 15 When the Israelites saw it, they said to each other, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. Moses said to them, “It is the bread the Lord has given you to eat. 16 This is what the Lord has commanded: ‘Everyone is to gather as much as they need. Take an omera for each person you have in your tent.’ ” 17 The Israelites did as they were told; some gathered much, some little. 18 And when they measured it by the omer, the one who gathered much did not have too much, and the one who gathered little did not have too little. Everyone had gathered just as much as they needed. 19 Then Moses said to them, “No one is to keep any of it until morning.” 20 However, some of them paid no attention to Moses; they kept part of it until morning, but it was full of maggots and began to smell. So Moses was angry with them. 21 Each morning everyone gathered as much as they needed, and when the sun grew hot, it melted away. 22 On the sixth day, they gathered twice as much—two omers for each person—and the leaders of the community came and reported this to Moses. 23 He said to them, “This is what the Lord commanded: ‘Tomorrow is to be a day of sabbath rest, a holy sabbath to the Lord. So bake what you want to bake and boil what you want to boil. Save whatever is left and keep it until morning.’ ” 24 So they saved it until morning, as Moses commanded, and it did not stink or get maggots in it. 25“Eat it today,” Moses said, “because today is a sabbath to the Lord. You will not find any of it on the ground today. 26 Six days you are to gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will not be any.” 27 Nevertheless, some of the people went out on the seventh day to gather it, but they found none. 28 Then the Lord said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to keep my commands and my instructions? 29 Bear in mind that the Lord has given you the Sabbath; that is why on the sixth day he gives you bread for two days. Everyone is to stay where they are on the seventh day; no one is to go out.” 30 So the people rested on the seventh day.


By the time of Yeshua, it was well ingrained so that there was no question as to which day God wanted the people to take their Sabbath rest. From there it is easy to determine that the day we know as Saturday is the Sabbath [Friday night at sunset til Saturday night at sunset]

This lesson was so important, the manna from it was retained in the Ark of the Covenant or some bible versions say in Revelation "the Ark of Testament" where the TEN Commandments are kept.

Revelation 11:19 Then God's temple in heaven was opened, and within his temple was seen the ark of his covenant. And there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake and a severe hailstorm.

Remember Moses did everything according to the pattern in heaven.

Hebrews 8:5 They serve at a sanctuary that is a copy and shadow of what is in heaven. This is why Moses was warned when he was about to build the tabernacle: "See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain."

Revelation has a mighty angel with a loud voice crying out "worship God on Sunday"

Revelation 14:7 He said in a loud voice, "Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come. Worship him who made the heavens, the earth, the sea and the springs of water."

yup.. as i mentioned before ..im confident the lord never let it drop out of record .. which day it was .. wherever the jews went they continues to keep this one tradition ..to this day

 

[visionary]

^^

But can you answer the point about finding the Sabbath if you were in the scenario I described earlier?

It is said that there is a 7 day cycle. This is true, and observable for many things, as the article you linked points out.

- However -

There is no reason to assume it is a continuously cycling 7 day cycle, and has been so from the beginning.

The ancient Israelites also celebrated "new moon" day. Ever wonder why? The moon is heavenly body, and therefore it is a sign for one of the "days, seasons or years" according to Genesis.

It is said and assumed that the Jews never lost Sabbath.

Scripture says different:

Lamentations 2:

The Lord is like an enemy;
he has swallowed up Israel.
He has swallowed up all her palaces
and destroyed her strongholds.
He has multiplied mourning and lamentation
for Daughter Judah.

6
He has laid waste his dwelling like a garden;
he has destroyed his place of meeting.
The Lord has made Zion forget
her appointed festivals and her Sabbaths;
in his fierce anger he has spurned
both king and priest.

How then did Israel find it again? Did they ever find it again? How do we know? Because they could not have found it if the 7 day cycle has been continually cycling and they forgot which day was Sabbath.

Since that happened before Yeshua, and Yeshua kept the Sabbath, which is traceable since His first coming... that verse would not be an issue now.

 

[visionary]

^^

But can you answer the point about finding the Sabbath if you were in the scenario I described earlier?

It is said that there is a 7 day cycle. This is true, and observable for many things, as the article you linked points out.

- However -

There is no reason to assume it is a continuously cycling 7 day cycle, and has been so from the beginning.

The ancient Israelites also celebrated "new moon" day. Ever wonder why? The moon is heavenly body, and therefore it is a sign for one of the "days, seasons or years" according to Genesis.

It is said and assumed that the Jews never lost Sabbath.

Scripture says different:

Lamentations 2:

The Lord is like an enemy;
he has swallowed up Israel.
He has swallowed up all her palaces
and destroyed her strongholds.
He has multiplied mourning and lamentation
for Daughter Judah.

6
He has laid waste his dwelling like a garden;
he has destroyed his place of meeting.
The Lord has made Zion forget
her appointed festivals and her Sabbaths;
in his fierce anger he has spurned
both king and priest.

How then did Israel find it again? Did they ever find it again? How do we know? Because they could not have found it if the 7 day cycle has been continually cycling and they forgot which day was Sabbath.

Since that happened before Yeshua, and Yeshua kept the Sabbath, which is traceable since His first coming... that verse would not be an issue now.

 

[MoreCoffee]

Since you reject Sunday as the Church's day of worship why bother calling your Saturday as Sabbath thread The arguments for Sunday when it is in fact The arguments against Sunday? Isn't that deceptive?

 

[visionary]

Since you reject Sunday as the Church's day of worship why bother calling your Saturday as Sabbath thread The arguments for Sunday when it is in fact The arguments against Sunday? Isn't that deceptive?

Nope, it is a thread where presentation for Sunday can be made. The fact that there is none says a lot.

 

[MoreCoffee]

Nope, it is a thread where presentation for Sunday can be made. The fact that there is none says a lot.

Your first post, the first post in this thread is intended to be evidence against Sunday. You gave this thread a misleading name. It is dishonest to call it The arguments for Sunday when it is in fact The arguments against Sunday.

 

[psalms 91]

So we needed another thread with the same purpose? You worship how you like but the fact remains that God set aside Saturday, have you asked Him what He wants

 

[MoreCoffee]

So we needed another thread with the same purpose? You worship how you like but the fact remains that God set aside Saturday, have you asked Him what He wants

The other thread is honestly titled. It is not pretending to be something that it is not. This thread's title is misleading and dishonest.

 

[Stravinsk]

^^

But can you answer the point about finding the Sabbath if you were in the scenario I described earlier?

It is said that there is a 7 day cycle. This is true, and observable for many things, as the article you linked points out.

- However -

There is no reason to assume it is a continuously cycling 7 day cycle, and has been so from the beginning.

The ancient Israelites also celebrated "new moon" day. Ever wonder why? The moon is heavenly body, and therefore it is a sign for one of the "days, seasons or years" according to Genesis.

It is said and assumed that the Jews never lost Sabbath.

Scripture says different:

Lamentations 2:

The Lord is like an enemy;
he has swallowed up Israel.
He has swallowed up all her palaces
and destroyed her strongholds.
He has multiplied mourning and lamentation
for Daughter Judah.

6
He has laid waste his dwelling like a garden;
he has destroyed his place of meeting.
The Lord has made Zion forget
her appointed festivals and her Sabbaths;
in his fierce anger he has spurned
both king and priest.

How then did Israel find it again? Did they ever find it again? How do we know? Because they could not have found it if the 7 day cycle has been continually cycling and they forgot which day was Sabbath.

Since that happened before Yeshua, and Yeshua kept the Sabbath, which is traceable since His first coming... that verse would not be an issue now.

Good counterpoint on the Jews keeping true Sabbath at the time when Yeshua was conducting His ministry. :thumbsup:

However, there is no reason to assume they kept it from that point up to this day. Some major happenings also occurred with the destruction of the Temple that Yeshua warned about, fleeing to the mountains, being scattered, etc. So it cannot be a given that everyone was keeping the correct day up until now. Heck, I sometimes forget what day it is and have to consult my computer or a calendar. People of ancient times didn't have our modern time keeping devices, and if they had to flee to the mountains, were scattered, etc - I can imagine it wouldn't be hard to forget what day it was.

Unless the moon had a part to play in showing what day it was.

Willing to have a go at the other points I made in the quoted text?

 

[pinacled]

Good counterpoint on the Jews keeping true Sabbath at the time when Yeshua was conducting His ministry. :thumbsup:

However, there is no reason to assume they kept it from that point up to this day. Some major happenings also occurred with the destruction of the Temple that Yeshua warned about, fleeing to the mountains, being scattered, etc. So it cannot be a given that everyone was keeping the correct day up until now. Heck, I sometimes forget what day it is and have to consult my computer or a calendar. People of ancient times didn't have our modern time keeping devices, and if they had to flee to the mountains, were scattered, etc - I can imagine it wouldn't be hard to forget what day it was.

Unless the moon had a part to play in showing what day it was.

Willing to have a go at the other points I made in the quoted text?

Just the other day something in Jeremiah stood out.

8 At that time, saith the Lord, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves:

2 And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.

3 And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the Lord of hosts.

4 Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord; Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return?

5 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.

6 I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.

7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.

8 How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.

9 The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the Lord; and what wisdom is in them?

10 Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.

11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.




And of course Jeremiah is a pretty long Book.

31 At the same time, saith the Lord, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.

2 Thus saith the Lord, The people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.

 

[Alithis]

The early church gathered together on Sundays to take communion (Acts 20:7).

Does it not also record that they met daily in each others houses?
Showinv that niether was intended as something to be instituted .


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[amadeois]

The Sabbath is the last week of the shabbaton. Is the seventh day of the week.

Calling it Saturday, like we do now, is in a way to pay respect to some other name other than God. We are paying respect to Saturn. God asked us to ONLY worship HIM and nobody else. He is the Creator and Allmighty, so He is asking for our reepect since He created everything around us, and then He rested from His work of CREATION on the seventh day.

Equally, Jesus rested from His work of redemption on the seventh day.

God does not change. Jesus does not change. Why change it to SUNDAY, paying respect to the creation and not to the creator.

Somebody changed it. WHO?

If you think you know who did it, post it here and back it up with inteligente answers. We will be interest to know.

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[Alithis]

generally Speaking . .rome changed it .

 

[MoreCoffee]

generally Speaking . .rome changed it .

If you believe it had anything to do with Emperor Constantine then it was Constantinople not Rome that "did it".

:smirk:

 

[visionary]

If you believe it had anything to do with Emperor Constantine then it was Constantinople not Rome that "did it".

:smirk:

RCC likes to take the glory by declaring they did the changing. In the Convert’s Catechism of Catholic Doctrine, we read:

Q. Which is the Sabbath day?
A. Saturday is the Sabbath day.
Q. Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday?
A. We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic Church, in the Council of Laodicea, (AD 336) transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday….
Q. Why did the Catholic Church substitute Sunday for Saturday?
A. The Church substituted Sunday for Saturday, because Christ rose from the dead on a Sunday, and the Holy Ghost descended upon the Apostles on a Sunday.
Q. By what authority did the Church substitute Sunday for Saturday?
A. The Church substituted Sunday for Saturday by the plenitude of that divine power which Jesus Christ bestowed upon her!
—Rev. Peter Geiermann, C.SS.R., (1946), p. 50.

In Catholic Christian Instructed,

Q. Has the [Catholic] church power to make any alterations in the commandments of God?
A. ...Instead of the seventh day, and other festivals appointed by the old law, the church has prescribed the Sundays and holy days to be set apart for God’s worship; and these we are now obliged to keep in consequence of God’s commandment, instead of the ancient Sabbath.
—The Catholic Christian Instructed in the Sacraments, Sacrifices, Ceremonies, and Observances of the Church By Way of Question and Answer, RT Rev. Dr. Challoner, p. 204.

In An Abridgment of the Christian Doctrine,

Q. How prove you that the church hath power to command feasts and holy days?
A. 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.
Q. How prove you that?
A. 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 [of the feasts] by her commanded, they again deny, in fact, the same power.
–Rev. Henry Tuberville, D.D. (R.C.), (1833), page 58.

In A Doctrinal Catechism,
Q. Have you any other way of proving that the Church has power to institute festivals of precept?
A. 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.
–Rev. Stephen Keenan, (1851), p. 174.

In the Catechism of the Council of Trent,
The Church of God has thought it well to transfer the celebration and observance of the Sabbath to Sunday!
–p 402, second revised edition (English), 1937. (First published in 1566)

In the Augsburg Confession,
They [the Catholics] allege the Sabbath changed into Sunday, the Lord’s day, contrary to the decalogue, as it appears; neither is there any example more boasted of than the changing of the Sabbath day. Great, they say, is the power and authority of the church, since it dispensed with one of the ten commandments.
—Art. 28.



God, “with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning” (James 1:17), does not change (Malachi 3:6) and especially any of the laws He put on the tablets of stone with His own finger.

 

[psalms 91]

RCC likes to take the glory by declaring they did the changing. In the Convert’s Catechism of Catholic Doctrine, we read:

Q. Which is the Sabbath day?
A. Saturday is the Sabbath day.
Q. Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday?
A. We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic Church, in the Council of Laodicea, (AD 336) transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday….
Q. Why did the Catholic Church substitute Sunday for Saturday?
A. The Church substituted Sunday for Saturday, because Christ rose from the dead on a Sunday, and the Holy Ghost descended upon the Apostles on a Sunday.
Q. By what authority did the Church substitute Sunday for Saturday?
A. The Church substituted Sunday for Saturday by the plenitude of that divine power which Jesus Christ bestowed upon her!
—Rev. Peter Geiermann, C.SS.R., (1946), p. 50.

In Catholic Christian Instructed,

Q. Has the [Catholic] church power to make any alterations in the commandments of God?
A. ...Instead of the seventh day, and other festivals appointed by the old law, the church has prescribed the Sundays and holy days to be set apart for God’s worship; and these we are now obliged to keep in consequence of God’s commandment, instead of the ancient Sabbath.
—The Catholic Christian Instructed in the Sacraments, Sacrifices, Ceremonies, and Observances of the Church By Way of Question and Answer, RT Rev. Dr. Challoner, p. 204.

In An Abridgment of the Christian Doctrine,

Q. How prove you that the church hath power to command feasts and holy days?
A. 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.
Q. How prove you that?
A. 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 [of the feasts] by her commanded, they again deny, in fact, the same power.
–Rev. Henry Tuberville, D.D. (R.C.), (1833), page 58.

In A Doctrinal Catechism,
Q. Have you any other way of proving that the Church has power to institute festivals of precept?
A. 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.
–Rev. Stephen Keenan, (1851), p. 174.

In the Catechism of the Council of Trent,
The Church of God has thought it well to transfer the celebration and observance of the Sabbath to Sunday!
–p 402, second revised edition (English), 1937. (First published in 1566)

In the Augsburg Confession,
They [the Catholics] allege the Sabbath changed into Sunday, the Lord’s day, contrary to the decalogue, as it appears; neither is there any example more boasted of than the changing of the Sabbath day. Great, they say, is the power and authority of the church, since it dispensed with one of the ten commandments.
—Art. 28.



God, “with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning” (James 1:17), does not change (Malachi 3:6) and especially any of the laws He put on the tablets of stone with His own finger.

Exactly no matter what nman says or what church nboasts God is the same yesterday today and forever

 

[Alithis]

RCC likes to take the glory by declaring they did the changing. In the Convert’s Catechism of Catholic Doctrine, we read:

Q. Which is the Sabbath day?
A. Saturday is the Sabbath day.
Q. Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday?
A. We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic Church, in the Council of Laodicea, (AD 336) transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday….
Q. Why did the Catholic Church substitute Sunday for Saturday?
A. The Church substituted Sunday for Saturday, because Christ rose from the dead on a Sunday, and the Holy Ghost descended upon the Apostles on a Sunday.
Q. By what authority did the Church substitute Sunday for Saturday?
A. The Church substituted Sunday for Saturday by the plenitude of that divine power which Jesus Christ bestowed upon her!
—Rev. Peter Geiermann, C.SS.R., (1946), p. 50.

In Catholic Christian Instructed,

Q. Has the [Catholic] church power to make any alterations in the commandments of God?
A. ...Instead of the seventh day, and other festivals appointed by the old law, the church has prescribed the Sundays and holy days to be set apart for God’s worship; and these we are now obliged to keep in consequence of God’s commandment, instead of the ancient Sabbath.
—The Catholic Christian Instructed in the Sacraments, Sacrifices, Ceremonies, and Observances of the Church By Way of Question and Answer, RT Rev. Dr. Challoner, p. 204.

In An Abridgment of the Christian Doctrine,

Q. How prove you that the church hath power to command feasts and holy days?
A. 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.
Q. How prove you that?
A. 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 [of the feasts] by her commanded, they again deny, in fact, the same power.
–Rev. Henry Tuberville, D.D. (R.C.), (1833), page 58.

In A Doctrinal Catechism,
Q. Have you any other way of proving that the Church has power to institute festivals of precept?
A. 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.
–Rev. Stephen Keenan, (1851), p. 174.

In the Catechism of the Council of Trent,
The Church of God has thought it well to transfer the celebration and observance of the Sabbath to Sunday!
–p 402, second revised edition (English), 1937. (First published in 1566)

In the Augsburg Confession,
They [the Catholics] allege the Sabbath changed into Sunday, the Lord’s day, contrary to the decalogue, as it appears; neither is there any example more boasted of than the changing of the Sabbath day. Great, they say, is the power and authority of the church, since it dispensed with one of the ten commandments.
—Art. 28.



God, “with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning” (James 1:17), does not change (Malachi 3:6) and especially any of the laws He put on the tablets of stone with His own finger.

wow that is quite sickening .. in every instance to the question how prove you the church has power to change it - the reply is basically ..because WE will to..
"never mind thy will be done ."

 

[visionary]

There is one more that I am trying to hunt up, in which they state that because all the other Christian churches follow their lead in keeping Sunday, is proof of their power.

This is not it, but like it.

Catholic Church claims responsibility for the change from seventh-day to first-day Sabbath.

Here is an explanation from The Catechism of the Catholic Church Section 2 Article 3 (1994):
Sunday – fulfillment of the Sabbath. Sunday is expressly distinguished from the Sabbath which it follows chronologically every week; for Christians its ceremonial observance replaces that of the Sabbath... The Sabbath, which represented the completion of the first creation, has been replaced by Sunday which recalls the new creation, has been replaced by Sunday which recalls the new creation inaugurated by the Resurrection of Christ... In respecting religious liberty and the common good of all, Christians should seek recognition of Sundays and the Church’s holy days as legal holidays.

I found it....

Chancellor Albert Smith for Cardinal of Baltimore Archdiocese, letter dated February 10, 1920:
If Protestants would follow the Bible, they should worship God on the Sabbath day by God is Saturday. In keeping the Sunday, they are following a law of the Catholic Church.

Our Sunday Visitor (February 5, 1950):
Practically everything Protestants regard as essential or important they have received from the Catholic Church... The Protestant mind does not seem to realize that in accepting the Bible and observing the Sunday, in keeping Christmas and Easter, they are accepting the authority of the spokesman for the church, the Pope.

Louis Gaston Segur, Plain Talk about the Protestantism of To-Day (London: Thomas Richardson and Son, 1874): 213:
Thus the observance of Sunday by the Protestants is a homage they pay, in spite of themselves, to the authority of the (Catholic) Church.

Catholic Priest T. Enright, CSSR, lecture at Hartford, KS, Feb 18, 1884:
I have repeatedly offered $1000 to any one who can furnish any proof from the Bible that Sunday is the day we are bound to keep...The Bible says, “Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy,” but the Catholic Church says, “No, keep the first day of the week,” and the whole world bows in obedience.

Catholic Record (September 1, 1923):
The [catholic] Church is above the Bible, and this transference of the Sabbath observance is proof of that fact.

Letter from C.F. Thomas, Chancellor of Cardinal Gibbons on October 28, 1895:
Of course the Catholic Church claims that the change was her act…And the act is a MARK of her ecclesiastical power and authority in religious matters.

American Catholic Quarterly Review (January 1883):
Sunday...is purely a creation of the Catholic Church.


Catholic American Sentinel (June 1893):
Sunday...It is a law of the Catholic Church alone...


S.C. Mosna, Storia della Domenica (1969): 366-367:
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.”

“The Question Box,” The Catholic Universe Bulletin (August 14, 1942): 4:
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.