“Furthermore, I do not suppose that you need to learn from me how
ridiculous and unworthy of any argument are their scruples about food,
their superstition about the Sabbath, their pride in circumcision, and their
sham in fasting.”
St. Justin Martyr, First Apology 67 (c. 155 AD)
“We all gather on the day of the sun, for it is the first day (after the Jewish
Sabbath, but also the first day) when God, separating matter from darkness,
made the world; and on this same day Jesus Christ our Savior rose from the
dead.”
St. Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho the Jew 23 (c. 155 AD)
“If circumcision was not necessary before Abraham, nor before Moses the
Sabbath observance and festivals and sacrifices, then, similarly they are not
necessary now, when in accordance with the will of God, Jesus Christ the
Son of God has been born without sin, of a Virgin of the offspring of
Abraham.”
St. Augustine of Hippo, Against Faustus the Manichean 18, 4 (c. 400
AD)
“The things in the Law and in the Prophets which Christians do not observe
are those which did but signify the things they do observe. They were but
figures of things to come, which figures, now that the things themselves
have been revealed and made present by Christ, must be removed, so that
in the very fact of their removal the Law and the Prophets may be
fulfilled.”
Catechism of the Council of Trent (1566)
Pt. III, Ch. IV: But the Church of God has thought it well to transfer
the celebration and observance of the Sabbath to Sunday. For, as on that
day light first shone on the world, so by the Resurrection of our Redeemer
on the same day, by whom was thrown open to us the gate to eternal life,
we were called out of darkness into light; and hence the Apostles would
have it called the Lord’s day.
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