Sunday Worship
Objection: “The Commandments speak of remembering the Sabbath
day, and keeping it holy (Gen. 2:3; Exod. 20:8). The Sabbath is
Saturday, so why do Catholics worship publicly on the first day of the
week, that is, Sunday?”
This is a question normally posed by those––such as the Seventh-Day
Adventists––who regard Sunday worship as a mark of the Apostate Church
of the Beast. For such people Sunday worship originated in paganism and
is an abomination relating to sun worship. It is a commandment of men that
contradicts the clear commandment of God.
The Seventh-Day Adventists were founded in 1831 under the original name
of “The Adventists” by William Miller, an American farmer. He was
obsessed with the second coming of Christ and predicted its occurrence for
October 1843 and then October 1844. When these dates failed, Miller
abandoned his own movement. However, from among the Adventists arose
a “prophetess,” Mrs Ellen Gould Harmon White, who declared that she had
been taken up to heaven and shown the truth of Sabbath observance. In
reality, E. G. H. White had picked up the idea of reinstituting observance of
the Jewish Sabbath from a Miss Preston, who was a member of the
Seventh-Day Baptists diffusing her ideas throughout Washington in 1844.
In 1845, E. G. H. White re-organized the Adventists and gave them the new
name of “Seventh-Day Adventists.”
Currently the Seventh-Day Adventists are engaged in a public campaign
alleging that the Catholic Church is involved in a worldwide conspiracy to
introduce laws enforcing Sunday observance. As they state:
“Soon international law will require the observance of Sunday, the
pagan day of sun worship, as a day of rest and worship for
everybody. The United States of America will be the first to enact
and later enforce a National Sunday Law in defiance of God’s
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