The Catholic Church changed the day. The Catholic Press of Sydney, Australia, is emphatic that Sunday observance is solely of Catholic origin.
Sunday is a Catholic institution and its claims to observance can be defended only on Catholic principles. From beginning to end of Scripture, there is not a single passage that warrants the transfer of weekly public worship from the last day of the week to the first - August 25,1900.
Burns and Oates of London, are publishers of Roman Catholic books, one of which they are pleased to call The Library of Christian Doctrine. A part of this is called Why don't you keep the Sabbath Day? and sets forth the following argument of a Catholic with a Protestant.
You will tell me that Saturday was the Jewish Sabbath, but that the Christian Sabbath has been changed to Sunday. Changed! But by whom? Who has the authority to change an expressed commandment of Almighty God? When God has spoken and said, Thou shalt keep the seventh day. Who shall dare to say, Nay, thou mayest work and do all manner of worldly business on the seventh day; but thou shalt keep holy the first day in it's stead? This is a most important question, which I know not how you can answer.
You are a Protestant, and you profess to go by the Bible and the Bible only; and yet in so important a matter as the observance of one day in seven as a holy day, you go against the plain letter of the Bible, and put another day in the place of the day which the Bible has commanded. The command to keep holy the seventh day is one of the Ten Commandments; you believe that the other nine are self-binding; who gave you authority to tamper with the fourth? If you are consistent with your own principles; if you really follow the Bible and the Bible only, you ought to be able to produce some portion of the New Testament in which this fourth commandment is expressly altered. ( pages 3-4)
Cardinal Gibbons, in The Faith of our Fathers, says this:
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. (Edition of 1893, p111)
When we are led by truth and carefully examine the Bible, we are compelled to conclude that there is no authority in the Holy Scriptures for the observance of Sunday. There is no divine sanction and no authority given to man to make such a change. Search if you will through civil and ecclesiastical history, plow through the mass of theological writings, commentaries, church manuals, and catechisms and you will conclude that the first day is a false Sabbath, but the Sabbath of the Lord is the seventh day.
The claim is now made that this identical seventh day of creation cannot be located. Is this true or false?
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