Happy Sunday. Being in the Octave of Christmas I gift you this song. Happy holidays. Continuing with “Dies Domini,” paragraph sixteen The commandment of the Decalogue by which God decrees the Sabbath observance is formulated in the Book of Exodus in a distinctive way: Remember the Sabbath day in order to keep it holy.” And the inspired text goes on to give the reason for this, recalling as it does the work of God: For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.” Before decreeing that something be done, the commandment urges that something be remembered. It is a call to awaken remembrance of the grand and fundamental work of God which is creation, a remembrance which must inspire the entire religious life of man and then fill the day on which man is called to rest. Rest therefore acquires a sacred value: the faithful are called to rest not only as God rested, but to rest in the Lord, bringing the entire creation to him, in praise and thanksgiving, intimate as a child and friendly as a spouse.
Posted on: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 15:00:59 +0000