“We move from the “Sabbath” to the “first day after the Sabbath”, from the seventh day to the first day: the dies Domini becomes the dies Christi!…By contrast, the Sabbath’s position as the seventh day of the week suggests for the Lord’s Day a complimentary symbolism, much loved by the Fathers. Sunday is not only the first day, it is also “the eighth day”, set within the sevenfold succession of days…” Pope John Paul II, Apostolic Letter, Dies Domini, Vatican, 31 May,1998.

“The abandonment of the Sabbath and the adoption of Sunday as the Lord’s Day, are the result of an interplay of Christian, Jewish and pagan religious factor’s”. Vincenzo Monachino, S.J., Chairman of the Church History Department, Pontifical Gregorian University, 29^{th June, 1977. In Samuele Bacchiocchi, From Sabbath to Sunday: A Historical Investigation of the Rise of Sunday Observance in Early Christianity, p. 8. Rome 1977.}

"From this same Catholic Church you have accepted your Sunday, and that Sunday, as the Lord's day, she has handed down as a tradition; and the entire Protestant world has accepted it as tradition, for you have not an iota of Scripture to establish it. Therefore that which you have accepted as your rule of faith, in­adequate as it of course is, as well as your Sunday, you have accepted on the authority of the Roman Catholic Church."-D. B. RAY, "The Papal Controversy," 1892, page 179.

"I have repeatedly offered $1,000 to anyone who can prove to me from the Bible alone that I am bound to keep Sunday holy. There is no such law in the Bible. It is a law of the holy Catholic Church alone. The Bible says, 'Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.' The Catholic Church says: 'No. By my divine power I abolish the Sabbath day and command you to keep holy the first day of the week.' And lo! the entire civilized world bows down in a reverent obedience to the command of the holy Catholic Church.' - T. ENRIGHT, C.S.S.R., in a lecture at Hartford, Kan­sas, Feb. 18, 1884.

"The Catholic Church for over one thousand years before the existence of a Protestant, by virtue of her divine mission, changed the day from Saturday to Sunday."-The Catholic Mirror, Sept. 23, 1893.

"You may read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and you will not find a single line authorizing the sanctification of Sunday. The Scriptures enforce the religious observance of Saturday, a day which we [Catholics] never sanctify."-JAMES CARDINAL GIBBONS, "The Faith of Our Fathers," page 111.

"There is but one church on the face of the earth which has the power, or claims power, to make laws binding on the con­science, binding before God, binding under penalty of hell-fire. For instance, the institution of Sunday. What right has any other church to keep this day? You answer by virtue of the third commandment [the Papacy changed the fourth commandment and called it the third], which says, 'Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day.' But Sunday is not the Sabbath. Any school­boy knows that Sunday is the first day of the week. I have re­peatedly offered one thousand dollars to anyone who will prove by the Bible alone that Sunday is the day we are bound to keep, and no one has called for the money. It was the holy Catholic Church that changed the day of rest from Saturday, the seventh day, to Sunday, the first day of the week."-T. ENRIGHT, C.S.S.R., in a lecture delivered in 1893.

"Reason and sense demand the acceptance of one or the other of these alternatives: either Protestantism and the keeping holy of Saturday or Catholicity and the keeping holy of Sunday. Com­promise is impossible' "-JAMES CARDINAL GIBBONS, Catholic Mirror, Dec. 23, 1983.

"Question: What Bible authority is there for changing the Sabbath from the seventh to the first, day of the week? Who gave the pope the authority to change a command of God?

"Answer: If the Bible is the only guide for the Christian, then the Seventh-day Adventist is right in observing the Saturday with the Jew. But Catholics learn what to believe and do from the divine, infallible authority established by Jesus Christ, the Catholic Church.... Is it not strange that those who make the Bible their only teacher should inconsistently follow in this matter the tradi­tion of the Church?"-"Question Box," by CONWAY, I903 Edition. pages 254, 255.

"Question: Which is the Sabbath day?

"Answer: Saturday is the Sabbath day.

"Question: Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday?

"Answer: We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic Church, in the Council of Laodicea (A.D. 336), transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday."-PETER GERERMANN, "The Convert's Catechism of Catholic Doctrine," Second Edition, 1910, page 50.

"It was the Catholic Church which, by the authority of Jesus Christ, has transferred this rest to the Sunday in remembrance of the resurrection of our Lord. Thus the observance of Sunday by the Protestants is an homage they pay, in spite of themselves, to the authority of the [Catholic] church.' - MGR. SEGUR, "Plain Talk About the Protestantism of Today," page 213.

"Question: Have you any other way of proving that the Church has power to institute festivals of precept?

"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.'- STEPHEN KEENAN, "A Doctrinal Catechism," page I74.

"Question: How prove you that the Church hath power to command feasts and holydays?

"Answer By the very act of changing the Sabbath into Sun­day, which Protestants allow of; and therefore they fondly con­tradict themselves, by keeping Sunday strictly, and breaking most other feasts commanded by the same Church.

"Question: How prove you that?

"Answer: Because by keeping Sunday, they acknowledge the Church's power to ordain feasts, and to command them under sin: and by not keeping the rest [of the feasts] by her commanded, they again deny, in fact, the same power." HENRY TUBERVILLE, D.D., "An Abridgment of the Christian Doctrine" (R. C.), page 58,

"Nowhere in the Bible do we find that Christ or the apostles ordered that the Sabbath be changed from Saturday to Sunday. We have the commandment of God given to Moses to keep holy the Sabbath day, that is the seventh day of the week, Saturday. Today most Christians keep Sunday because it has been revealed to us by the church [Roman] outside the Bible." - Catholic Virginian, Oct. 3, 1947.

"Our Lord rose from the dead on the first day of the week," said Father Hourigan of the Jesuit Seminary. "That is why the Church changed the day of obligation from the seventh day to the first day of the week. The Anglican and other Protestant denom­inations retained that tradition when the Reformation came along." - Toronto Daily Star, Oct. 26, 1949.

"Catholic: Is the Bible the rule or guide of Protestants for observing Sunday?

"Protestant: No, I believe the Seventh-day Adventists are the only ones who know the Bible in the matter of Sabbath observ­ance." - "The Bible an Authority Only in Catholic Hands," pages 25, 26.

"Practically everything that Protestants regard as essential or important they have received from the Catholic Church. They accepted Sunday rather than Saturday as the day for public wor­ship after the Catholic Church made that change.

"But the Protestant mind does not seem to realize that in accepting the Bible, in observing the Sunday, in keeping Christmas and Easter, they are accepting the authority of the spokesman for the church, the pope."-Our Sunday Visitor, Feb. 5, I950.

"Only gradually did Christians begin to observe Sunday as a day of rest. . . . In the third century, as we learn from Ter­tullian, many Christians bad begun to keep Sunday as a day of rest to some extent…

"The real need of Sunday as a day of rest as well as worship came much later, in the sixth century."-"Yes, I Condemned the Catholic Church" (Supreme Council, Knights of Columbus), page 4.

"When St. Paul repudiated the works of the law, he was not thinking of the Ten Commandments, which are as unchangeable as God Himself is, which God could not change and still remain the infinitely holy God."-Our Sunday Visitor, Oct. 7, I951.