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RE: SUNDAY REFLECTION: THE CHALICE, THE HOST, AND THE PEACE I FOUND TODAY.
O.k., let's see what they did after the resurrection...
First Jesus say pray that your flight be not in the winter and on the Sabbath day. Why would He warn followers if the Sabbath wasn't binding anymore? This is 70 AD that He was talking about....
Also, when He was buried, the woman stopped working on His body because the Sabbath drew on. They kept Sabbath and He did even in death.
The apostles kept Sabbath, look at Paul and the 'reasoning' he did on the Sabbath. There ws times when both Jews and Gentiles came to worship on the Sabbath and even said they would return the following Sabbath.
I know Acts 20:7 is the big claim, but all that said was that they gathered on late Saturday night (first day of the week was as soon as the sunset) so they were preaching from Sabbath into the late hours of the night.
And appearing to His disciples doesn't make a day holy. The day is sanctified and made holy by Christ in Genesis 2.
It's interesting of what Catholics do say about Sabbath....And you can Google it to confirm it if you wish:
from the Convert’s Catechism of Catholic Doctrine by Reverend Peter Giermann.
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 transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday.
This is what I mean when I say we need to be very careful we are following what God says, and not what man says.
I appreciate the discussion, and I understand your argument. 😊.....we have been arguing for days now😂😂💔. btw...
Matthew 24:20 is about the future flight from Judea, so I’m not sure it proves that Christians were commanded to keep the Sabbath after Christ. Likewise, Luke 23:56 clearly says the women rested on the Sabbath according to the commandment, but that was immediately after Jesus’ death and before the Resurrection.
Regarding Acts 20:7, the text actually says, “On the first day of the week we came together to break bread.” So even if the meeting began Saturday evening by Jewish reckoning, Luke still identifies it as the first day of the week.
And yes, Catholics acknowledge that Saturday is the biblical Sabbath. The Catholic position is that Sunday is observed as the Lord’s Day because of Christ’s Resurrection—not because Catholics deny what the Sabbath originally was.
So I think the real question is how the New Testament understands the Sabbath after Christ, rather than simply whether Saturday was the original Sabbath. 🙏🏽
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