Sunday is sacred
- Rome, in the D.C. 321. Emperor Constantine I declared Sunday a mandatory day of rest. Today there is no doubt that the feast day of Christians is Sunday, but it has not always been so. The Bible says that the holy day is the Sabbath. For the first Christians this was the Sabbath; remember, after all, that they were Jews and respected the Sabbath. They began to consider Sunday in the 2nd century AD: God created the light on Sunday and, above all, Jesus Christ was resurrected on Sunday.
But in the same way that Constantine allowed the supremacy of Christianity in the Empire, he also succeeded in gradually establishing the sacredness of Sunday. Domeka comes from Latin dominicus, dies Domini. From then on, in reality, there would be no work on Sunday and the Sabbath would be offered to God.
The hardest enemy of the holiday was the Industrial Revolution. Liberalism broke the hegemony of the Catholic Church in the affairs of this world. The French Encyclopedia, for example, stated in its article “Dimanche”: “We have to work on Sunday for the benefit of everyone’s wealth.” A good excuse for new factories to constantly produce.
That is why in the 19th century the interests of the workers and the Catholic Church converged. In 1891, the encyclical Rerum Novarum included, among other things, the sacred character of Sunday; it was a day of prayer, not work. The unions demanded the same thing. Thus, under pressure from all sides, the states gradually began to pass laws in favor of twenty-four hours of rest. The first was Germany, in the same year as the encyclical, in 1891. Then Spain accepted the Sabbath in 1904. And in 1921, the Treaty of Versailles specified that this day of rest “shall, as far as possible, correspond to the days consecrated by the customs of each country.” Since
then, Sunday has been an official day of rest in all Western countries. But also, even though we are not Jews, we try to respect the Sabbath, that is, not to work on the Sabbaths, because good customs must not be lost.
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