SUNDAY CELEBRATION

 The calendar of Ancient Rome

Where begins the first day of the week?

People are celebrating the day of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, although nothing is said in the Bible that Christ commanded his followers to specifically honor this day.

 

Note. "Reluctance to have anything in common with Judaism led to what Christians very soon became a special way to celebrate the first day of the week-Sunday ... This holiday, like all other church holidays, has always been a human-oriented, not having anything to do with the Apostles, who did not have the slightest intention to consolidate celebration of the first day of the week the divine command. Celebration Sunday also has no relation to the early Christian Apostolic Church, which respected the Holy Saturday and don't even think about how to bring the divine commandment of Saturday on Sunday. Perhaps this misconception has come to church somewhere at the end of the second century, Christians had to be considered a sin to work on this day» (August Neander, The History of the Christian Religion and Church, p. 186).

"Observance of Sunday was the first addition to the sabbath, but the larger Christian Church separated from Judaism, the less value it attached the celebration Saturday, until, finally, it is not forgotten" (l. Duchesne, Christian Worship, Its Origin and Evolution, p. 47).

 

Who first legalized the celebration of Sunday?

Emperor Constantine The Great.

 

Note.

"The Christian Church Originally believed Sunday day of rest and, therefore, does not seen any analogy between the Jewish Sabbath and Christian Sunday afternoon, except that both are equally recognized days of worship of God.

Observance of Sunday begins from Church tradition, and the Church of Rome.

Tertullian, possibly the first to mention that on Sunday, Christians continued to work. For the first time legalized the widespread celebration of this day of Laodicea. Emperor Constantine I issued the first civil law; Saint Martin of Braga, perhaps for the first time used the phrase "casual labour" in its present theological sense" (Vincent j. Kelly, Forbidden the Sunday and Feast-Day Occupations, p. 203).

"At the State level, mandatory observance of Sunday was legitimized by the Emperor's edict of Constantine I, published in the year 321, insrtruction, to all the courts, craft workshops, and all urban residents have relied heavily on the first day of the week (venerbili die solis), the only exception was for those who were engaged in agricultural work" (Encycloipaedia Britannica, 1th ed., art. "Sunday").

"Day of the Sun let all the Honourable judges, bureaucrats, and the whole city people are buried, and let all the craft shops will be closed. But in the countryside the people involved field work may freely and fearlessly continue to work, as it often happens, that the next day could go rain and cannot be neither sow, nor work in grape; and if you missed a good time for these works, the blessings of heaven does not have been poured out so generously" (Released 7 March Crisp and Konstantin, each of which at that time was elected Consul for the second time; Codex Justinianus, lib 3, tit. 12, 3, in History of the Christian Church, by Philip Schaff [Scribners, 1902 ed.], vol. 3, p. 380).

The edict, issued by the Emperor Constantine, the Church Union triggered with the State in the Roman Empire and, in a sense, fill the absence of God's commandments to observe Sunday. It was one of the most important steps leading to a distortion of Church commandments on Saturday.

 

That testifies to this Christian church historian Eusebius?

"Everything that needed to be done on Saturday, we (the Church) was transferred to the Lord's day (Sunday)"  (Eusebius, Commentary on the Psalms, in the Patrologia Graece, vol. 23, cols. 1171.1172).

 

Note. Changing the commandments on Saturday was the result of a joint effort between Church and State over several centuries. Eusebius of Caesarea (270-338), a famous Bishop of the Christian Church, as well as the biographer of Emperor Constantine, constantly him, was recognized as the father of church history.

 

How does the Church Cathedral was prohibited from celebrating the seventh day and written widely adhered to Sunday?

Laodikijskim Church in the 4th century. The Cathedral took place in the city of Laodicea, in Asia minor.

 

Note.

Canon 29 reads: "On Saturday was not for Judaizing Christians and don’t work, and work like all people. However, all Christians should be especially venerate the Lord's day. That day, if possible, should refrain from day-to-day work, nervous. If you find that someone is judaises, then this must be was expelled from Christ (betrayed by anathema)"(Charles Joseph Hefele, A History if the Counsils of the Church, vol.2 [1896], p.316).

 

Puritan clergyman William Prine in 1655, said: "The Laodicea... for the first time approved the celebration of the Lord's Day observance of the Jewish Sabbath and forbade under penalty of damnation" (A briefe Polemicall Dissertation Conserning ... the Lord 's-Day-Sabbath, p. 44).

"What happened to the Laodikijskom Cathedral, was only a step on the way to change the commandments on Saturday. This Cathedral is considered to be the first that officially banned the celebration Saturday and ordered all the Christians to consecrate the first day of the week, if possible, on this day from all the work. However, the Cathedral was not as strong as the later decrees designed to legitimize celebration Sunday. Various historians have reported conflicting information about when this Council was held. The exact date is unknown, but it can be assumed that he was somewhere between 343 and 381 year" (Hefele, vol. 2, p. 298).