Quotations from our authors, such as Samuele Bacchiocchi, and others:

C.S. Mosna said that W. Rordorf gave "the rise of Sunday festivity a too-Christian origin, neglecting other userful elements and detatching it from its Jewish context." (Storia della domenica, pp. 41 and 5). - C. S. Mosna

"It is also the hope that earnest readers may be stimulated through a better understanding of the meaning of God's holy day to search for a deeper fellowship with the 'Lord of the Sabbath' (Mark 2:28)." - Pg. 16 - Mark 2:28

"If one should limit himself only to ... pieces of undisputed authenticity, it would be impossible to make any real progress, owing to their scarcity. It is therefore necessary to examine the rich patristic and apocryphal literature while keeping in mind its limitations." - Pg. 15 - Pseudo-Barnabas

Of "all parts of the liturgy the feasts are perhaps the most enduring: it is practically impossible to change the day and form of festival." - J. V. Goudoever - J. V. Goudoever

"If one contemplates the pressure that our economic and industrial institutions are exerting to obtain maximum utilization of industrial plants - by programming work shifts to ignore any festivity -, it is easy to comprehend how the pattern transmitted to us of the seven day week, with its recurring day of rest and worship, could undergo radical changes." - Pg 9-10, - economic pressures

"Adoration of God is made possible and more meaningful by the interruption of secular activities." - Dr. S. Bacchiocchi - adoration of God

"One day of total rest for man and machines would help safeguard both our power resources and the precarious environment." pg. 10 - sunday legislation, might be supported by environmentalists

"Therefore we can conclude with certainty that the event of the resurrection has determined the choice of Sunday as the day of worship of the first Christian community." - C. S. Mosna - resurrection

"The expression 'Lord's day' which first appears as an undisputed Christian designation for Sunday near the end part of the second century, denotes a day which belongs exclusively to the 'Lord'." - Lord's day

N.J. White claimed "an unbroken and unquestioned Church usage" of the phrase "Lord's day" to refer to Sunday since the earliest apostolic times. - N. J. White

"The problem of the origin of Sunday observance in early Christianity has aroused in recent times the interest of scholars of different religious persuasions. - Sunday observance, origins studied by scholars

"The Synoptics (Matt. 12:8; Mark 2:28; Luke 6:5), however, contain a similar locution, namely 'Lord of the Sabbath', a phrase used by Christ at the end of a dispute with the Pharisees over the question of legitimate Sabbath activities." - Pg. 17 - Lord's day, not included in the Gospels

About investigating Christ's attitude about the Sabbath is rejected by the form critics: "Form critics would regard this investigation as futile, since they view the Gospels' report of Christ's Sabbath teachings and activities, not as authentic historical accounts but as later reflections of the primitive Church. What Jesus Himself may have thought, they claim is impossible to ascertain." Pg. 18 - form critics

"We see no justification for such historical skepticism, especially since a new quest for the historical Jesus has begun which casts shadows on previous methodologies and promises to find in the Gospels a much larger number of genuine deeds and words of Jesus." - Pg. 18 - historical skepticism

"Tertullian uses the Latin equivalent 'dominicus dies' in De oratione 23 and De corona 3. This became the official designation for Sunday in the Latin languages (cf. domenica, dimanche)." - dimanche

"Christians would never have come to worship on another day, apart from this freedom respecting the observance of the Sabbath, a freedom bequeathed to them by the Lord himself." Wilfrid Stott, (The Lord's Day, A Theological Guide to the Christian Day of Worship, 1972, p. 43) - Wilfrid Stott

"He is the Lord of the Sabbath and in this expression, quoted by all three of the Synoptics, there is a covert reference to the Lord's day. He, as Lord, chooses his own day." - Wilfrid Stott, "A Note on the Word KYPIAKH in Rev 1. 10", NTS 12 (1965): 75 - Wilfrid Stott

"Christ proclaimed Himself master of the Sabbath specifically to liberate man from formal burdens like the Sabbath, which had become unnecessary." -Pg 18 - C. S. Mosna

"Some people, concerned by this widespread profanation of the Lord's day, are urging for a civil legislation that would outlaw all activities not compatible with the spirit of Sunday." - sunday legislation

Quotations from our authors:

"He is the Lord of the Sabbath and in this expression, quoted by all three of the Synoptics, there is a covert reference to the Lord's day. He, as Lord, chooses his own day." - Wilfrid Stott, "A Note on the Word KYPIAKH in Rev 1. 10", NTS 12 (1965): 75 - Wilfrid Stott

"Adoration of God is made possible and more meaningful by the interruption of secular activities." - Dr. S. Bacchiocchi - adoration of God

"If one should limit himself only to ... pieces of undisputed authenticity, it would be impossible to make any real progress, owing to their scarcity. It is therefore necessary to examine the rich patristic and apocryphal literature while keeping in mind its limitations." - Pg. 15 - Pseudo-Barnabas