Justin Martyr (110 - 165 A.D.) identifies the Lord's day as being "Sunday.....the first day.....and Jesus Christ our Savior on that same day rose from the dead." He further says that on this day the saints assemble for worship.
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Assuming a similarity of tradition between the two we have probable cause to suppose that the Romans, who we know observed Sunday, called it the Lord's Day, and that the Corinthians, who observed a day they called the Lord's Day, did so on Sunday. ... The stone which the builders rejected has become the headstone of the corner.
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www.ewtn.com/library/ANSWERS/LORDS-DA.HTM
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however, the most common Christian term for Sunday was `Lord's day.' The term `Lord's day' was in wide use by the end of the second century and may also have been in use near the beginning of it” (Maxwell, p. 139).
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I would ask the reader to remember that, in the first part of this tract, there is not one thought of the Lord's Day. It treats simply of the typical import of the Jewish Sabbath. And even as to this, the gospel aspect only is dwelt upon;
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holybible.free.fr/assembly/sabbath_lordsday.html
holybible.free.fr/assembly/sabbath_lordsday.html
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1. The Lord's Day — as Sunday was called from Apostolic times(1) — has always been accorded special attention in the history of the Church because of its close connection with the very core of the Christian mystery. ... The custom of the "weekend" has become more widespread, a weekly period of respite,
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With their whole lives, these people have become a living interpretation of Jesus’s teaching, ... “Sine dominico non possumus!” Without the Lord and without the day that belongs to him, life does not flourish. Sunday has been transformed in our Western societies into the week-end, into leisure time.
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www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/homilies/2007/documents/hf_ben-xvi_hom_20070909_wien_en.html
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The obligation of rest from work on Sunday remained somewhat indefinite for several centuries. A Council of Laodicea, held toward the end of the fourth century, was content to prescribe that on the Lord's Day the faithful were to abstain from work as far as possible.
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www.newadvent.org/cathen/14335a.htm
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Today, the organisation - previously known as the Lord's Day Observance Society - under the name of Day One Christian Ministries campaigns for Sunday to be a day of worship and rest;
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www.lordsday.co.uk/
www.lordsday.co.uk/
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"If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own ... God's Plan ... How do I know if Sunday is the real Sabbath day?;
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