Why are Sundays important in the Christian faith?

Question

they are holy days on their own right, I just want to know why they are so important.

Answer 1

who said they were, the sabbath? isn't that saturday and besides the sabbath doesn't mean go to church and watch TV.

Answer 2

Sunday is the Sabbath day. God's creation took Six days and then God rested on the Sabbath, which was a Sunday. Many people try and percieve Saturday as being the Sabbath Day, because by our calendar, Saturday is the Seventh day of the week. However, this information is most certainly not true. Our Calendar begins January 1, 0000, 2 years 3 months and 19 days after the Birth of Jesus Christ.

Christians also rest on the Sabbath because they were told to do so by God.

Answer 3

Would you ask to go through RCIA or do some self-study of the Catechism? You can go to Saturday night vigil. It counts as Sunday. And, yes you should go to Mass everyday. If you can't then you should watch it on EWTN and make a spiritual communion (see Pieta Prayer Book for this). There is High Mass and Low Mass. As you may have noticed there are more readings at Sunday Mass than weekday Mass. So there's a little more to it than just how many people are in the pews. You didn't mention it but you may have noticed a difference in the type of people too. Yes you will build up your faith but you must do these things and do them with faith in order to be saved. I really applaud your diligence and I'm glad you enjoy the beauty of the Mass.

Answer 4

Every day is an important day. Most people meet on Sunday because most don't work then. We are to never let up praying and prophesying to everyone telling them the things Jesus told us.
He said we are to tell the good new of the Kingdom of God. That Jesus was privileged to set up a kingdom that will never be brought to ruin.
He will bring humanity and the earth back to perfection and hand the kingdom to his father...and once again we will be ruled by God.

But each day is a day of worship ...we are told to pray incessantly and all the more so as we behold the day (end) getting near.

Answer 5

There is a misconception about the holy day, and I hope to help, Hebrew scholars have taught the following. In Hebrew society at the time of Christ, any part of a day is a considered a day. The way they reconned time was not as critical as we do since there were no watches with hrs mins and seconds. At best time was measure in large blocks so if you accomplished a task in the last watch of the day it was still considered 1 day. (I understand there may have been rudementary clocks, but the average person of the day had no access to this. A sundial at best, "sun reckoning" was the usual way).

Jesus died on friday and was placed in the tomb before sundown. There was no time to complete the burrrial tasks because of the law of Schabot. Jesus lay in the tomb all day saturday, then on some part of Sunday the 1st day of the week He rose from the grave. So Jesus was in the tomb 3 days and when the burial party came to prepare the body they saw He was gone. Sunday the 1st day of the week.

For the Christian Jew it now became more important to worship God and celebrate the resurection on a Sunday as opposed to keeping the old law. For the desciples had been taught by Christ that man was not made for the saboth but the saboth made for man. He was clear in His teaching that the day of the week was not as important as the practice of reserving one day to honor God. This coinsides with the idea that Jesus did not come to abolish the Law but to fulfill it, to show us a new way to observe and revere the Law as it is the guide to show me my sin and Jesus is the answer for the forgiveness of my transgressions of the Law.

I personally believe that a day of the week should be set aside for worship and reverence to God, however I also believe that we should worship and praise God everyday, that the attitude of worship and praise for all that God has done should be our goal each day.

Any real worshiper knows that a day of praising God is not a day to sit and do no work, but to rest from our normal activities and be about the work of worship. Whats really cool is that we have the ability to do this work all day 24/7. The worship of our God should bring joy, and the Joy of the Lord is our strength...to complete the work.

Praise Him in ALL THINGS!!!!

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Answer 6

It is not really important what day is the sabbath. Its importance is that Man needs a break from the turmoil of work and any day would do in God's eyes. To make reflection and prayer on this day brings us down to earth from the pressures of life. Not to rest is the sure way to a nervous breakdown.

Answer 7

The catholics spend sabbath on Sunday, It's a day for rest and prayer to spend time with God. Other Christian faiths have sabbath on Friday Sunset until Saturday Sunset.

Answer 8

When God rested on the seventh day, there was no calender! Time and calenders are manmade to try to make sense of the passage of time. So who decided that Sunday was the day to worship, WHY MAN OF COURSE! Who else would be so arrogant! So feel feel free to worship God or whomever you believe in, whenever you choose to. Prayer can be done any time.
So it was again MAN that decided Sunday was a holy day, and therefore the ONLY DAY to worship God

Answer 9

Well, that depends on who you talk to. Sunday was originally the day that early pagan cultures worshipped the Sun (or Sun god), hence the name. To facilitate the transition to Christianity, early Christians called Sunday their holy day as well, which helped solidify the idea that God rested on the seventh day, therefore rest from work and focus on God was important on this day.

Answer 10

Sundays are important to Christians because Jesus was resurrected on a sunday..that's why church etc happens on a Sunday as opposed to the Jewish Sabbath which is Saturday.
God bless

Answer 11

The Sabbath is on Saturday. The seventh day of the week. This was never taken away from the 10 Commandments in which Christians are supposed to obey. It was just willfully ignorred by the church. "On the venerable Day of the Sun (likely in reverence to the Roman sun-god Apollo and Sol Invictus) let the magistrates and people residing in cities rest, and let all workshops be closed. In the country, however, persons engaged in agriculture may freely and lawfully continue their pursuits; because it often happens that another day is not so suitable for grain-sowing or for vine-planting; lest by neglecting the proper moment for such operations the bounty of heaven should be lost." This was done by the Roman church. The Protestant churches later followed suit of the Mother church and instituted it as well.

"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 observing Sunday, they are accepting the authority of the spokesman for the Church, the pope." Our Sunday Visitor, February 5th, 1950.

“…The Church is above the Bible, and this transference of Sabbath observance is proof of that fact.'' Catholic Record, September 1, 1923.]

“If Protestants would follow the Bible, they would 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.

“The observance of Sunday by the Protestants is 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.

The ready claim (in Colossians) that’s so often brought forth that Christ changed the Sabbath is disproved by His own words. In His Sermon on the Mount He said: 'Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.' Matthew 5:17- 19.

THIS is what made sunday so important.