Black Friday and Blue Laws: Renewed Calls for Uniform Rest Days

[phkrause]

http://religiousliberty.tv/black-friday-and-renewed-calls-for-weekly-rest-days.html

[BobRyan]

From your linked article

Quote:

On October 27, 2012, The North American Orthodox-Catholic Theological Consultation released a statement entitled “The Importance of Sunday,” which call s for Orthodox and Catholic Christians to recover the theological significance of Sunday as “fundamental to rebalancing our lives.” The document decries the current non-stop worklife and describes Sunday as a unique Christian festival that should be a day of worship and family and less like an ordinary work day. According to the document, “Shopping, sports, and work squeeze out the chance for a day of worship or rest in the Christian sense. By abandoning Sunday worship we lose out on the regenerative powers that flow out of the liturgical assembly.”

While they are entirely wrong about the "theological significance of Sunday" - We should applaud them for understanding that much about the Sabbath - even if they have the day wrong.

In the link to the Bishop's actual article - http://www.usccb.org/beliefs-and-teachin...e-of-sunday.cfm

- they correctly state that Sunday is the FIRST day - not the 7th day that is commanded by the Sabbath commandment of God -

Quote:

The primacy of Sunday is affirmed by the liturgical practice of the early church. St. Justin the Martyr writing around 150 AD notes that “it is on Sunday that we assemble because Sunday is the first day, the day on which God transformed darkness and matter and created the world and the day that Jesus Christ rose from the dead (First Apology, 67).”

In this next section the Bishops admit to their ploy of trying turn Sunday into the Sabbath Commandment of God - bending God's word to apply to week-day-1 instead of Sabbath.

Both Dies Domini and Sunday, Sabbath and the Weekend - do that - apparently.

Quote:

Our purpose here is not to replace or replicate their message; it is to underscore and point to it. Anyone who looks at the 1998 Apostolic Letter Dies Domini (The Lord’s Day) of Pope John Paul II and its cascade of patristic quotations will see there is already a feast of food for thought on the meaning of Sunday. Anyone who reads the recent book Sunday, Sabbath, and the Weekend (2010, Edward O’Flaherty, ed.) will see there is also strong ecumenical consensus on the need to recover the meaning of Sunday-- not just for our souls, but for our bodies, our hearts, and our minds as well.

However what is very ominous is the statement in your linked article. Labor unions and Churches working together to bring about the mark of the beast - just as was predicted.

If you click this link you will see the labor unions involved.

http://www.europeansundayalliance.eu/site/whoweare/article/65.html

Quote:

At present, the European Sunday Alliance is working with a variety of religious and labor organizations to make a work-free Sunday standard across Europe.

in Christ,

Bob

[phkrause]

Pretty interesting article. Jesus tells us to continuely be watching and be ready.

[BobRyan]

Amen - this is likely to continue to expand into something much bigger.

[Tallmark]

Mix in the NDAA and you have a real mess on your hands.

[phkrause]

I guess Tallmark we can look at it as a mess, or we can look at it as finally the end could be in sight and we are going home soon.

[phkrause]

I guess Tallmark we can look at it as a mess, or we can look at it as finally the end could be in sight and we are going home soon.

Since it wouldn't let me edit, I will add to my previous post above.

Or we could look at this as being just exactly as it should be, just as has been spoken of by Jesus himself. And all is well even though it might not look that way to those that have no idea as to what is coming down the road.

[BobRyan]

Mix in the NDAA and you have a real mess on your hands.