3rdAngel
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The first century Christianity was Jewish. You might recall reading Romans where St. Paul makes a cause against the redemption of the Judaizers of Acts 15:1 where the old posited laws of the Jews were put ahead of Divine or its subset, natural law. Jesus Christ didn’t come to re-make the law rather He fulfilled the law, made it perfect in His own Sacrifice. He gleaned on the Sabbath and healed on the Sabbath. Christian and Jewish sects worship together, even worshiped in the Temple together, at least in the beginning from the first Pentecost [Acts 2:1] until 70 A.D. when Jerusalem fell and the city was sacked. The Jews were resentful of the early Catholic Church because of the warning given to the Christians by the Romans to ‘get out of town’. Unlike the Jews when the early Church returned from the hills, they were allowed to reclaim their property; the Jews had their property confiscated.
The Catholic Church teaches trend moved from the Sabbath to the Lords Day more so after the fall of the Temple. Even earlier St. Paul was moving away from celebrating liturgy only on the Sabbath normally taught at the Synagogue. [Cf. Colossians 2:16] As time went on, the Catholics were prohibited from celebrating the parousia, the Presence of Christ in the Eucharist within the Synagogue. Consequently, they went to the Synagogue on Saturday to celebrate the liturgy and celebrating the Lord’s Day on Monday in private homes [Acts 20:7]: when they broke bread they were celebrating the Eucharistic meal - the “Lords Day.” Over a rather a short period of time the Sacrament of the Liturgy and the Sacrament of Communion centered on that day where Jesus Christ is Present among us. By the end of the first century Catholic Churches loyal to the teachings of Rome, the office St. Peter sprang up all over the meditation.
And that’s the way it was in the 1st century Catholic Church.
JoeT
Hi Joe, nice to see someone who has studied the history of the early Chrurch. Here is an interesting confession by the Roman Catholic Church that many protestants may not know or have forgotten.
CONFESSIONS OF THE ROMANS CATHOLIC CHURCH (Short 4 mins)
Thanks for sharing Joe
God bless
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