Christians are Sunday People

Christians are Sunday People
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Christians are Sunday people. On this day Christ rose from the dead. The feast of Sunday is, therefore, above all a profession of faith in the Resurrection.
According to Jewish reckoning, Sunday was the first day of the week. It was therefore, the day on which God created the world.

Sunday is also the day on which we give thanks for creation.

We learn what a man thinks, who he is, from that for which he has time. To observe the Christian Sunday is to have time for God, to acknowledge him publicly and privately by reserving a piece of our time for him.

It follows then that our Sunday outings should be planned so that there is always time for divine worship.

Sunday should be a day for conversation, a day on which are present to one another and learn anew, to understand one another. Because Sunday is God’s day, it is also humanity’s day;

Integral to the observance of Sunday should always be a festive and religious-oriented meal that recalls the communal participation in the Eucharist and that, precisely by its religious form, by its turning to the giver of all good things, will also be the surest defense against a meaningless arrogance that is often an attempt to compensate for one’s spiritual hunger and spiritual emptiness.

The rediscovery of Sunday is of crucial importance for our future – the future of the individual, of the family, and society.

(Pope Benedict XV1), Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Co-Workers of the Truth, “Meditations for Every Day of the Year, Ignatius Press, San Francisco, 1992, Oct. 20th and 21st entry.

George H. Kubeck,