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The EU Must Keep Sunday, Says Catholic Church
Posted by Lev/Christopher on April 5, 2010 at 11:35am
in Sabbath Day, The
http://www.endtime.net/engelsk/eusunday.html
The Catholic Church wants Sunday observance enshrined in EU law. The
European Parliament has debated changes to its Working Time Directive.
Some Parliament tabled an amendment saying that the minimum rest period
“shall in principle include Sunday.” The Brussels-based Commission of
Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community (COMECE) agreed,
recommending the directive should say “the minimal weekly rest must
include Sunday.” But the proposal texts were not good enough. Now five
Parliament members have put forward a new declaration. Accordingly this
declaration now introduced into parliament calls on the Member States
and on the EU institutions to “protect Sunday, as a weekly rest day, in
forthcoming national and EU working-time legislation in order to
enhance the protection of workers' health and the reconciliation of
work and family life”.
In order to be adopted, it is now necessary for the Written Declaration
to be signed by a majority (394) of MEPs before 7 May 2009.
Here you have the exact text:
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
2.2.2009
WRITTEN DECLARATION
pursuant to Rule 116 of the Rules of Procedure by Anna Záborská, Martin
Kastler, Jean Louis Cottigny, Patrizia Toia and Konrad Szymański on the
protection of a work-free Sunday as an essential pillar of the European
Social Model and a part of the European cultural heritage
Lapse date: 7.5.2009
0009/2009
Written declaration on the protection of a work-free Sunday as an essential pillar of the
European Social Model and a part of the European cultural heritage
The European Parliament,
– having regard to Article 137 of the TEU,
– having regard to Rule 116 of its Rules of Procedure,
A. whereas a work-free Sunday is an essential pillar of the European Social Model and a part
of the European cultural heritage,
B. whereas a EUROFOUND survey shows that the likelihood of sickness and absenteeism in
establishments that work on Saturdays and Sundays is 1.3 times greater compared with
establishments that do not require staff to work at the weekend,
C. whereas, according to EU law, Sunday is the weekly rest day for children and adolescents,
D. whereas the European institutions, bodies and agencies have not worked on Sundays
since their creation and do not intend to do so in the future, despite the diversity of
religious, cultural and ethnic backgrounds of EU officials and decision-makers,
1. Calls on the Member States and the EU institutions to protect Sunday, as a weekly rest
day, in forthcoming national and EU working-time legislation in order to enhance the
protection of workers' health and the reconciliation of work and family life;
2. Instructs its President to forward this declaration, together with the names of the
signatories, to the Council, the Commission and the parliamentary committees for social
affairs of the national parliaments.
If EU will make a specific day, Sunday as a day of rest, then they will
enforce a lifestyle change on its subjects. Then the people in alle the
member states will be forced to follow a state religion – Catholicism.
The enforcement of Sunday worship will be the mark of a powerful
Vatican-allied European superpower.
In our magazines like THE ELITE TIGHTENS THE GRIP we have for many
years ago warned about this developement, like this: ”It appears as a
master plan that the religious dimension, as a gathering point, should
come last. In this way it appears to be a point of less wait or
importance. This is a clever strategy, since once they have acquired
unity in the economical, political and military dimensions, unity in
the area of religion naturally follows.”…” As we have read in
Revelation 17: 14 it says that it is these world powers which war
against the Lamb, Christ, and all that stand on His side. This is the
final war in a nutshell. All of the world's destroying powers will come
together - for what? What is it we are waiting for? Yes, just as they
have implemented common standardized regulations in the political
arena, they will also implement religious regulations. They will
implement the beast's mark.”
The Catholic Church itself claims to have a mark. They claim Sunday as
the mark of their authority, and that others acknowledge the church's
authority by Sunday observance (From Thomas, Chancellor of Cardinal
Gibbons and the Douay Catechism, p. 59). The church therefore says
plainly that their mark of authority is their implementation of Sunday,
the Biblical first day of the week, as the day of rest, in place of the
Sabbath, which is kept from sunset on Friday until sunset on Saturday
(Mark 15:42-47, 16:1-6l; Leviticus 23:32; Nehemiah 13:15-21). The Bible
speaks of only one day of rest in the week, which is the Sabbath. This
is the only day of rest, which God has hallowed and blessed, from
creation onward. In the Ten Commandments we are instructed to keep the
seventh day, the Sabbath, as the day of rest (Gen. 2:1-3, Ex. 20:8-11,
Acts 18:4).
Mark the following statements:
CATHOLICISM SPEAKS:
”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.” - The
Catholic Press, Sydney, Australia, August 1900
”It is well to remind the Presbyterians, Baptists, Methodists and all
other Christians, that the Bible does not support them anywhere in
their observance of Sunday. Sunday is an institution of the Roman
Catholic Church, and those who observe the day observe a commandment of
the Catholic Church.” - Priest Braby, in an address, reported in the
Elizabeth, N.J. ”News”, March 18, 1903
”Question: Have you any other way of proving that the (Catholic) Church
has power to institute festivals of precept (to command holy days)?
Answer: Had she not such power, she could not have done that in which
all modern religionists agree with her: she could not have substituted
the observance of Sunday, the first day of the week, for the observance
of Saturday, the seventh day, a change for which there is no Scriptural
authority.” - Stephan Keenan, A Doctrinal Cathecism, page 176
”Reason and common sence demand the acceptance of one or the other of
these alternatives: either Protestantism and the keeping holy of
Saturday, or Catholicism and the keeping holy of Sunday. Compromide is
impossible.” - The Catholic Mirror, December 23, 1893
Conclusion: The Catholic Church openly admit that it is they that by
law has changed the day of worship from Sabbath to Sunday in 336 BC.
They also admit that if we shall follow the Bible, we have to keep the
Sabbath holy, not Sunday.
PROTESTANTISM SPEAKS:
Anglican:
”And where are we told in the Scriptures that we are to keep the first
day at all? We are commanded to keep the seventh; but we are nowhere
commanded to keep the first day.” - Isaac Williams, Plain Sermons on
the Catechism, page 334, 336
Baptist:
”There was and is a command to keep holy the Sabbath day, but that
Sabbath day was not Sunday. It will however be readily said, and with
some show of triumph, that the Sabbath was transferred from the seventh
to the first day of the week, with all its duties, privileges and
sanctions. Earnestly desiring information on this subject, which I have
studied for many years, I sak, where can the record of such a
transaction be found? Not in the New Testament-absolutely not. There is
no scriptural evidence of the change of the Sabbath institution from
the seventh to the first day of the week.” - Dr. E.T. Hiscox, author of
the Baptist Manual
Methodist:
”It is true that there is no positive command for infant baptism. Nor
is there any for keeping holy the first day of the week. Many believe
that Christ changed the Sabbath. But, from His own words, we see that
He came for no such purpose. Those who believe that Jesus changed the
Sabbath base it only on a supposition.” - Amos Binney, Theological
Compendium, page 180-181
American Congregationalist:
”The current notion that Christ and His apostles authotitatively
substituted the first day for the seventh, is absolutely without any
authority in the New Testament.” - Dr. Layman Abbot, in the Christian
Union, June 26, 1890
When we are talking about what is happening about this subject in the very near future:
”Fearful is the issue to which the world is to be brought. The powers
of earth, uniting to war against the commandments of God, will decree
that "all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond"
(Revelation 13:16), shall conform to the customs of the church by the
observance of the false sabbath. All who refuse compliance will be
visited with civil penalties, and it will finally be declared that they
are deserving of death. On the other hand, the law of God enjoining the
Creator's rest day demands obedience and threatens wrath against all
who transgress its precepts.
With the issue thus clearly brought before him, whoever shall trample
upon God's law to obey a human enactment receives the mark of the
beast; he accepts the sign of allegiance to the power which he chooses
to obey instead of God. The warning from heaven is: "If any man worship
the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in
his hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which
is poured out without mixture into the cup of His indignation."
Revelation 14:9, 10.
But not one is made to suffer the wrath of God until the truth has been
brought home to his mind and conscience, and has been rejected. There
are many who have never had an opportunity to hear the special truths
for this time. The obligation of the fourth commandment has never been
set before them in its true light. He who reads every heart and tries
every motive will leave none who desire a knowledge of the truth, to be
deceived as to the issues of the controversy. The decree is not to be
urged upon the people blindly. Everyone is to have sufficient light to
make his decision intelligently.
The Sabbath will be the great test of loyalty, for it is the point of
truth especially controverted. When the final test shall be brought to
bear upon men, then the line of distinction will be drawn between those
who serve God and those who serve Him not. While the observance of the
false sabbath in compliance with the law of the state, contrary to the
fourth commandment, will be an avowal of allegiance to a power that is
in opposition to God, the keeping of the true Sabbath, in obedience to
God's law, is an evidence of loyalty to the Creator. While one class,
by accepting the sign of submission to earthly powers, receive the mark
of the beast, the other choosing the token of allegiance to divine
authority, receive the seal of God.
-Ellen G. White: In the book The Great Controversy, page 605
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