Like his predecessors, Pope Francis is promoting Sunday rest. The pope said that opening stores and other businesses on Sundays is not beneficial to society. Abandoning the traditionally Christian practice of not working on Sundays has a negative impact on families and friendships, he said.
The priority should be “not economic but human,” he added. While poor people need jobs, Sunday business as a way to create those jobs is not helpful. “Maybe it’s time to ask ourselves if working on Sundays is true freedom,” he asked in his speech in Molise, Italy, and an agricultural region that he visited on Saturday, July 5. Spending Sundays with family and friends is an “ethical choice” for faithful and non-faithful alike.
Though the pope did not mention attending church services on Sunday, papal promotion of Sunday rest is laying the foundation for Sunday worship.
The pope quipped: “Waste time with your children!”
“More and more the world is setting at naught the claims of God. Men have become bold in transgression. The wickedness of the inhabitants of the world has almost filled up the measure of their iniquity. This earth has almost reached the place where God will permit the destroyer to work his will upon it. The substitution of the laws of men for the law of God, the exaltation, by merely human authority, of Sunday in place of the Bible Sabbath, is the last act in the drama. When this substitution becomes universal, God will reveal Himself. He will arise in His majesty to shake terribly the earth. He will come out of His place to punish the inhabitants of the world for their iniquity, and the earth shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.” Testimonies for the Church, Vol. 7, page 141
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Reginald Cephas
Wednesday July 23rd, 2014 at 11:39 AMThe system is moving closer to the Sunday law as Christians we must be aware of this. This is only a sign and a warning that God is giving to his commandment keeping people. Thank you for sharing. God bless.
Beatriz
Thursday March 9th, 2017 at 11:45 PMBut all the Christians churches go Sunday. That make my belly hurt
vireen mann
Saturday August 2nd, 2014 at 12:17 PMI believe that we are close to the end, I’m just afraid that most of our people are being kept in the dark. Thanks be to God for people like you. By God’s grace I will do my part in sharing this end time message, Keep up this God given work.
Ilja Ponsaing
Wednesday November 26th, 2014 at 04:34 AMWhen I read this page my thought went to humanism as the papacy really is
Humanism is A system of thought that rejects religious beliefs and centers on humans and their values, capacities, and worth. And the denial of any power or moral value superior to that of humanity; the rejection of religion or the Holy Spirits power, in favour of a belief in the advancement of humanity by its own efforts.
God wants us to flee from humanism. Repeatedly, He has warned us against its deadly influence and shown how it would infiltrate the church. Using the symbol of a little horn in Daniel chapter 7, God predicted the Antichrist would be humanistic. “I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, . . . and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things” (Daniel 7:8). Notice that it is not the eyes of the Spirit that are on this little horn, but “the eyes of man.” Here we see that Antichrist lacks true spiritual discernment and sees life only through human eyes.
Gloria Harbison
Wednesday January 21st, 2015 at 11:26 PMThe Antichrist will be found out. He, himself will expose his own false teaching. The Holy Spirit is at work in the heats today. Thousands are searching. The Bible speaks about this in saying that the hidden things will be brought to light or made known. The main factor that will give away the false religion is its use of force. This method is so foreign to Christ-likeness. Christ is a gentle, loving spirit that allows us to decide our destinies. No man must submit to the powers of church and state combined. When people see the mind forced, they have to know this is not of Christ.
marilyn
Wednesday July 1st, 2015 at 12:28 PMthat is so true.
Hrach Nersisyan
Thursday June 11th, 2015 at 06:10 PMDear brothers and systers, the time is near. I’m so happy to see it, to read it, to hear it. God is Love. Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. Don’t be afraid of the world. God will bless you.
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marilyn
Wednesday July 1st, 2015 at 12:27 PMtoo bad he is promoting the first day of the week instead of the True Sabbath that God said to keep holy. the 7th day. which the catholc church persecuted sabbath keepers for keeping.
shenice
Saturday July 11th, 2015 at 02:09 PMI am a 19 year old roman Catholic however over a year i started going an Adventist church and is about to be baptized . I started to learn about the 7th day Sabbath and i do believe in keeping it . we are close to the end of times and the devil is attacking God’s commandments and people with counterfeit beliefs and ideas such as the Sunday worship. from the beginning in Genesis God clearly states on the 7th day we are to rest from all work . we have to move away from convenience because the whole bible is God’s inspired word and not just some of it . We are to obey the entire bible .
Samuel
Friday October 9th, 2015 at 11:41 AMlet us all worship our God in spirit and truth not according to humanity but as per the LAWS of God.the devil is very much aware that his days are over