Regarding the change from the observance of
the Jewish Sabbath to the Christian Sunday, I wish to draw your attention to
the facts:
1) That Protestants, who accept the Bible as
the only rule of faith and religion, should by all means go back to the
observance of the Sabbath. The fact that they do not, but on the contrary
observe the Sunday, stultifies them in the eyes of every thinking man.
2) We Catholics do not accept the Bible as
the only rule of faith. Besides the Bible we have the living Church, the
authority of the Church, as a rule to guide us. We say, this Church,
instituted by Christ to teach and guide man through life, has the right to
change the ceremonial laws of the Old Testament and hence, we accept her
change of the Sabbath to Sunday. We frankly say, yes, the Church made this
change, made this law, as she made many other laws, for instance, the Friday
abstinence, the unmarried priesthood, the laws concerning mixed marriages,
the regulation of Catholic marriages and a thousand other laws. It is always
somewhat laughable to see the Protestant churches, in pulpit and
legislation, demand the observance of Sunday, of which there is nothing in
their Bible.