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Catholicism - How can I deal with the possibility of being on call on Sundays?

Also a software engineer and Catholic here. One thing I've said to my own employer is that I won't work on Sundays. I'm blessed in that I don't have your on-call obligations, of course! The Mass that ...
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Do Mormons have Sunday services?/What does the regular Mormon liturgy look like?

First, a point of terminology. Do you live near a Mormon temple (a large and spectacular building, recognizable by a distinctive golden statue of an angel with a trumpet on top) or a Mormon church (...
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When was Sunday first called the Sabbath?

The first writer to clearly make this connection appears to be Petrus Alphonsi in the 12th century. This is argued by 17th century historian Peter Heylyn, who writes: The first who ever used [the ...
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Catholicism - How can I deal with the possibility of being on call on Sundays?

It is an issue, but the Catechism does allow for it: 2188. If a country's legislation or other reasons require work on Sunday, the day should nevertheless be lived as the day of our deliverance which ...
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Catholicism - How can I deal with the possibility of being on call on Sundays?

There are two separate issues here: working on Sunday and attending Mass on those specific Sundays where you are on call; I'll only address the latter. For Mass, I suggest that you familiarize ...
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Is Ignatius' claim that Christians didn't keep the Sabbath correctly translated?

For the early Church, the Lord's Day, or Kyriake, as it came to be known in Greek (and Dominicus, being exactly equivalent, in Latin), was the first day of the week, or Sunday. Justin Martyr, First ...
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Why most Christians say Jesus’ resurrection was on a Sunday?

The difference between Adventists and other Christians is NOT which day is the seventh or not. It is whether the christian Sabbath should be on the seventh day (the day of the jewish Sabbath, the day ...
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How do Christians turn Sunday into the Lord's day?

Some terms might not be defined in Scripture, but this doesn't mean their meaning wasn't known or taught to the first Christians, as if the Apostles only taught by their letters, contrary to 2 ...
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How do Christians turn Sunday into the Lord's day?

“The Day of the Lord” usually identifies events that take place at the end of history and they always identify a span of time during which God personally intervenes in history, directly or indirectly, ...
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Do Presbyterian Protestants have a 'day of rest' or a 'day of religious works'?

The position of the Westminster Confession of Faith regarding Sabbath day observance may help to explain why you were exhorted to “think spiritual thoughts all day on a Sunday” and that “you must not ...
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Do Mormons have Sunday services?/What does the regular Mormon liturgy look like?

Sacrament meetings are usually held at the same time every week. Two or three congregations (termed wards for larger congregations or branches for smaller ones) may share a building. The usual order ...
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According to Ellen White, will all nations become Christians?

Your quotations clearly state that Ellen G. White foretold a future time when "observance of the false sabbath will be urged upon us." Further, "All nations and tongues and peoples will ...
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Catholicism - How can I deal with the possibility of being on call on Sundays?

Prümmer, O.P., Manuale Theologiæ Moralis II (14ᵃ ed.) (1955), p. 406 (§496) (my emphases): I. By reason of necessity of oneself or of another, whether this [necessity] be corporal or spiritual, [the ...
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When was the first sunday?

And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. — Genesis 1:5 Biblical days run from sunset to sunset, rather than from midnight to ...
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Why is the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception treated differently?

Of course, in the United States, and in addition to all Sundays, we're obligated to attend Mass on the Holy Days of Obligation. There are six of them, in the United States. Whenever January 1 (Mary, ...
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Sunday or Saturday?

The translation is correct that in Acts 20:7 they gathered on Sunday. We know this for a number of reasons, but clearly because the same phrase and words are used at John 20:1, 19 in regard to Sunday ...
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Do Presbyterian Protestants have a 'day of rest' or a 'day of religious works'?

Experience of Presbyterian Protestantism did not come my way till my mid-20s, after I left the neither Presbyterian nor Protestant faith I’d been brought up in. Their Sundays required meeting ...
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When was the first sunday?

God created the world in seven days, according to Genesis. Putting aside whether this is "literal" or "allegorical" and all of the debate around that, historically, the Jewish/...
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Why most Christians say Jesus’ resurrection was on a Sunday?

TLDR: The Hebrew word translitterated "Sabbath" means "time of rest". It does not mean "seventh day". In Genesis, it says God rested (Sabbath) on the seventh day (our ...
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Why most Christians say Jesus’ resurrection was on a Sunday?

So, if other Christians say that the first day of the week is Monday ... Indeed, in many countries (for example here in Germany) the week starts with Monday and ends with Sunday. However, in Jewish ...
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What is the Adventist response to Justin Martyr?

While I don't believe that there is a standard response from the Adventist church on this. One scholar has proposed that the appendix in which this statement was written, was a forgery, and added ...
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Is Ignatius' claim that Christians didn't keep the Sabbath correctly translated?

This book which I quote from below deals with various quotes about Christians keeping the Sabbath, including the one in question, from Irenaeus. The author, Iain H. Murray claims that: "The day ...
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Catholics Fulfilling Their Sunday and Holy Day Obligation to Attend Mass Who are Late

How late can a person arrive at Mass, say on a Sunday, in order for that Mass to fulfill that person's obligation to assist at Mass? While it is true that before the Second Vatican Council some moral ...
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When, and by whom, did what we now call Easter Sunday first become known as Resurrection Sunday?

Eusebius preserves much of the relevant history prior to his time. Circa AD 190 a controversy arose regarding the date on which the Lord's Passover should be observed: A question of no small ...
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Is Ignatius' claim that Christians didn't keep the Sabbath correctly translated?

The Ignatian letters have at least two versions. Here they are regarding the OP quote from Letter to Magnesians. If, therefore, those who were brought up in the ancient order of things680 have come ...
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Is Ignatius' claim that Christians didn't keep the Sabbath correctly translated?

I have a Greek version (edited by Michael Holmes). The relevant part of section 9 reads (textual variants make this uncertain but the likely original is): “…not "sabbathizing", but living ...
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On what day of the week did Thomas first meet the resurrected Christ?

It would seem to me that the reason the disciples were meeting on the Sunday is that it is the third day after the crucifixion and a Jewish holiday called coincidently enough the "The Feast of First ...
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On what day of the week did Thomas first meet the resurrected Christ?

The quick answer is Thomas met the resurrected Lord on a Sunday, eight days, counting inclusively from when the others had met Him. There are a few ideas being presented that only make sense from an ...
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What is the Adventist response to Justin Martyr?

You refer to the book The Great Controversy. Here is a sentence from pp. 446, 447. It was in behalf of the Sunday that popery first asserted its arrogant claims (see Appendix); and its first resort ...
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When was Sunday first called the Sabbath?

When was Sunday first called the Sabbath? TL;DR: Never, except incorrectly or figuratively or by Protestants. Any references to Sunday (the fist day of the week) as being "the Sabbath" (the ...
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