Why did the Catholic's change the day of worship from Sabbath to Sunday?

Question

Roman Catholic declarations regarding the change from Sabbath to Sunday:

Catechism of the council of trent for parish priests, translated by McHugh and Callan; 1937,P.402:

"But the Church of God has thought it well to transfer the celebration and observance of the Sabbath to Sunday."

The Convert's Cathechism of Catholic Doctrine, by Peter Geiermann,1910, page 50.

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. 336), transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday.

Those who embrace Sunday as the Sabbath or Lord's day are paying homage to Rome, and to the power which enforces the institution ordained by Rome. God instituted the 7th day Sabbath(Saturday) at Creation(Genesis 2:1-3).

The Holy Bible is our only safeguide not mis-guided powerful men in our history. (Sabbath test)

Answer 1

Yes they did they claim it as the "mark of their authority"
It 's blasphemy if you ask me

Answer 2

No matter how hard to you try to twist the Doctrine's of the Church, you will not be able to change the Truth:

Isaiah 1:13 - God begins to reveal His displeasure with the Sabbath.

Matt. 28:1; Mark 16:2,9; John 20:1,19- the Gospel writers purposely reveal Jesus' resurrection and appearances were on Sunday. This is because Sunday had now become the most important day in the life of the Church.

Acts 20:7 - this text shows the apostolic tradition of gathering together to celebrate the Eucharist on Sunday, the "first day of the week." Luke documents the principle worship was on Sunday because this was one of the departures from the Jewish form of worship.

1 Cor. 16:2 - Paul instructs the Corinthians to make contributions to the churches "on the first day of the week," which is Sunday. This is because the primary day of Christian worship is Sunday.

Col. 2:16-17 - Paul teaches that the Sabbath was only a shadow of what was fulfilled in Christ, and says "let no one pass judgment any more over a Sabbath."

2 Thess. 2:15 - we are to hold fast to apostolic tradition, whether it is oral or written. The 2,000 year-old tradition of the Church is that the apostles changed the Sabbath day of worship from Saturday to Sunday.

Heb. 4:8-9 - regarding the day of rest, if Joshua had given rest, God would not later speak of "another day," which is Sunday, the new Sabbath. Sunday is the first day of the week and the first day of the new creation brought about by our Lord's resurrection, which was on Sunday.

Heb. 7:12 - when there is a change in the priesthood, there is a change in the law as well. Because we have a new Priest and a new sacrifice, we also have a new day of worship, which is Sunday.

Rev 1:10 - John specifically points out that he witnesses the heavenly Eucharistic liturgy on Sunday, the Lord's day, the new day of rest in Christ.

Matt. 16:19; 18:18 - whatever the Church binds on earth is bound in heaven. Since the resurrection, Mass has been principally celebrated on Sunday.

Answer 3

Some religious organizations (Seventh-Day Adventists, Seventh-Day Baptists, and certain others) claim that Christians must not worship on Sunday but on Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath. They claim that, at some unnamed time after the apostolic age, the Church "changed" the day of worship from Saturday to Sunday.

However, passages of Scripture such as Acts 20:7, 1 Corinthians 16:2, Colossians 2:16-17, and Revelation 1:10 indicate that, even during New Testament times, the Sabbath is no longer binding and that Christians are to worship on the Lord’s day, Sunday, instead.

The Sabbatists who nowadays want to observe the Jewish holiday, forget that Jesus and the apostles had authority to interpret and to reform the laws of Moses.The early Church Fathers compared the observance of the Sabbath to the observance of the rite of circumcision, and from that they demonstrated that if the apostles abolished circumcision (Gal. 5:1-6), so also the observance of the Sabbath must have been abolished.

The following quotations show that the first Christians understood this principle and gathered for worship on Sunday.

The Didache
"But every Lord’s day . . . gather yourselves together and break bread, and give thanksgiving after having confessed your transgressions, that your sacrifice may be pure. But let no one that is at variance with his fellow come together with you, until they be reconciled, that your sacrifice may not be profaned" (Didache 14 [A.D. 70]).

The Letter of Barnabas
"We keep the eighth day [Sunday] with joyfulness, the day also on which Jesus rose again from the dead" (Letter of Barnabas 15:6–8 [A.D. 74]).

Answer 4

First, the Council of Laodicea was the first council to make an official proclamation on the issue. Christians were observing the Eucharist on Sunday in the first century, as the New Testament clearly describes.

Second, the wording you cite is a little ambiguous. In the Greek Church, Saturday is still the Sabbath, and Sunday is the "Lord's Day." That has been the case since the first century. Traditional Christians still follow the Jewish practice in observing the Vespers service at sundown and Saturday, and still follow the practice of the ancient Church in observing the Eucharist on Sunday morning.

(In modern Greek, the word for Saturday is still literally "Sabbath," and the word for Sunday is still literally, "Lord's Day.")

Answer 5

The custom and regulation of the Jews replaced into to maintain GOD's sabbath holy. If Paul replaced GOD'S Sabbath in Acts 20:7 he would desire to no longer say: i think all issues written in the regulation, Acts 24:14 I particularly have not indignant the regulation of the Jews, Acts 28:8 I particularly have comitted no longer something against the individuals or the customs of our fathers. Acts 28:17 In Greek "first day of the week" reads one in all sabbaths.

Answer 6

It does not matter which day you keep the Sabbath on, as long as you have one day out of the week and keep it Holy.
However, I attend Church on a Sunday.

In the Bible, it reads;

Colossians 2:16
Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day.

Answer 7

For Christians the Resurrection of Jesus Christ on the first day of the week (Sunday) replaces the Sabbath as the day of ceremonial observance of the Commandment to keep the Lord's Day holy.

Here is the link: http://www.nccbuscc.org/catechism/text/pt3sect2chpt1art3.htm

The Catholic Church follows the teaching and practice of the Apostles. In the 20th chapter of the Act of the Apostles, the church in Troas gathered on the first day of the week, Sunday.

The first Christians were Jews. They went to temple or synagogue on the Sabbath (Saturday) with fellow Jews.

Then they gathered on the first day of the week, the day on which Jesus rose from the dead (Sunday), with fellow Christians to tell stories of Jesus and share Eucharist. See Acts 20:7.

Later Gentiles joined Christianity. The Apostles, filled with the Holy Spirit, decided that the Gentiles did not have to covert to Judaism. Therefore, they only attended on Sundays and did not have to abide by Jewish dietary laws.

This biblical practice inspired by the Holy Spirit has been followed ever since.

With love in Christ.

Answer 8

You are mistaken. The Catholic Church did not change the day of worship from the Sabbath to Sunday. Read the book of Acts. I believe that you will find there that the apostles met with the church on the first day of the week (Sunday). Thus it was the apostles the ambassadors of Christ that worshiped on Sunday.
God bless

Answer 9

I am not disputing your citation from 20th century Catholic sources, but I am not sure that Catholics changed the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday or changed the day of worship from Saturday to Sunday.

Sunday is not exactly the the Christian Sabbath.

Nor, in the ancient world, was the Jewish Sabbath a day of worship.

Answer 10

You quoted their claim to have changed the day; now find the proof they did. Which pope? What council?

And this is still a straw man argument.

Knocking down Sunday as a commanded day of rest and worship does not validate the keeping of the sabbath for Christians.

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Answer 11

Protestants and Anabaptist and both Greek and Russian Orthodox proclaim Sunday to be the Sabbath. Why don't Adventist celebrate Birthdays or Christmas?