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In a message dated 1/24/2003 8:45:49 PM Central Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:

>
> Can you send me some links.
>
> I would like to read more about this.
>
> Over the last two years, I've learned a lot about the origins of the
> church, some of which you mentioned here. But the rest, like Saturday
> being the Sabbath while Sunday being the Lord's Day is new to me.
>

We don't use a lot of web sites for this kind of information, but we read a
lot of books. Probably the most definitive study of *Sunday* is by the
German scholar Willy Rordorf, in English translation as *Sunday: The History
of the Day of Rest and Worship in the Earliest Centuries of the Christian
Church* (Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1968). The early Christians
gathered for worship on the first day of the week in honor of the
resurrection of Christ. They struggled with the commandment about observing
the sabbath, and some early Christians observed both the Sabbath and the
Lord's Day (especially in Eygpt). But by and large they believed that the
new reality of Christ superceded or fulfilled the Law of Moses, at least in
its ritual aspects.

If the Rordorf book is unaccessible you might want to check out the
multi-authored book, *The Study of Liturgy* edited by Cheslyn Jones, Geoffrey
Wainwright, and Edward Yarnold (Oxford University Press). It was issed
recenly in a new edition and can often be found on the shelves at Borders or
Barnes and Noble.

Hope this helps.
Frank, of Frank and Mary!


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