The Seventh day sABBAth

iMinister
Published on May 14, 2022
Roman catholic quotes:

"The authority of the church could therefore not be bound to the authority of the Scriptures, because the Church had changed...the Sabbath into Sunday, not by command of Christ, but by its own authority."
-- Canon and Tradition, p. 263

"By my divine power I abolish the Sabbath day, and command you to keep the first day of the week. And lo, the entire civilized world bows down in reverent obedience to the command of the holy Catholic Church"
-- Father Enright, C.S.S.R. of the Redemptoral College, Kansas City, Mo., History of the Sabbath, p. 802

â€œOf course the Catholic Church claims that the change (Saturday Sabbath to Sunday) was HER ACTâ€¦And the ACT IS A MARK OF HER ecclesiastical authority in religious things.â€
-- H.F. Thomas, Chancellor of Cardinal Gibbons.

â€œMost Christians assume that Sunday is the biblically approved day of worship. The Catholic Church protests that it transferred Christian worship from the biblical Sabbath (Saturday) to Sunday, and that to try to argue that the change was made in the Bible is both dishonest and a denial of Catholic authority. If Protestantism wants to base its teachings ONLY on the Bible, it should worship on Saturday.â€
-- Romeâ€™s Challenge Dec 2003.

â€œIs 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 the 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.â€
â€” James Cardinal Gibbons, The Faith of Our Fathers (1917 edition), p. 72-73 (16th Edition, p 111; 88th Edition, p. 89).

"Sunday is our MARK of authority. the church is above the Bible, and this transference of Sabbath observance is proof of that fact"
-- Catholic Record of London, Ontario Sept 1, 1923