1. Dies Domini, paragraph 3.
 2. Dies Domini, paragraph 5.
 3. Dies Domini, paragraph 30.
 4. Quoted by R.H.Martin, The Day: A Manual on the Christian Sabbath (New York, 1933), p. 184.
 5. Dies Domini, paragraph 4.
 6. Dies Domini, parahraph 4.
 7. Dies Domini, parahraph 6.
 8. Dies Domini, parahraph 67.
 9. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica(New York, 1947), Ⅱ,O,122 Art. 4,p. 1702.
 10. Vincent J. Kelly, Forbidden Sunday and feast-Day Occupations, (Washington, DC, Catholic University of America Press, 1943),p.2; Pope John XXⅢ,Mater et Magistea, trans. William J. Gibbons, (New York, 1961), p. 76, notes: “The Catholic Church has decreed for many centuries that Christians observe this day of rest on Sunday, and that they be present on the same day at the Eucharist Sacrifice.” John Gilmary Shea, “The Observance of Sunday and Civil Laws for Its Enforcement,” The American Catholic Quarterly Review 8(Jan.1883),p. 139, writes: “The Sunday, as a day of the week set apart for obligatory public worship of Almighty God, to be sanctified by a suspension of all servile labor, trade, and worldly avocations and by exercises of devotion, is purely a creation of the Catholic Church.” Martin J. Scott, Things Catholics Are Asked About(New York, 1927),p.136,adds:“Now the Church ∙∙∙ instituted, by God's authority, Sunday as the day of worship.”
 11. Catechism of the Catholic Church(Vatican City, 1994),p.524.
 12. Dies Domini, paragraph 8.
 13. Dies Domini, paragraph 11.
 14. Samuele Bacchiocchi, Divine Rest for Human Restlessness(Rome, Italy, 1980),p.67.
 15. Dies Domini, paragraph 12.
 16. Dies Domini, paragraph 15.
 17. Dies Domini, paragraph 13.
 18. Dies Domini, paragraph 15.
 19. Dies Domini, paragraph 14.
 20. Dies Domini, paragraph 17.
 21. Dies Domini, paragraph 59.
 22. Dies Domini, paragraph 18.
 23. For a discussion of the theology of Sunday as developed in the early Christian literature, see Chapter 9 “The Theology of Sunday” of my dissertation From Sabbath to Sunday. A Historical Investigation of the Rise of Sunday Observance in Early Christianity(Rome, Italy, 1977),pp.270-302.
 24. Dies Domini, paragraph 32. Cited from Catechism of the Catholic Church(note),p. 525, paragraph 2177. On paragraph 46 of Dies Domini, John Paul States: “Since The Eucharist is the very heart of Sunday, it is clear why, from the earliest centuries, the Pastors of the church have not ceased to remind the faithful of the need to take part in the liturgical assembly.”
 25. Christopher Kiesling expresses this view in his book The Future of the Christian Sunday (New York, 1970).
 26. Dies Domini, paragraph 20.
 27. Dies Domini, paragraph 21.
 28. Dies Domini, paragraph 28.
 29. Dies Domini, paragraph 18.
 30. Dies Domini, paragraph 19.
 31. Dies Domini, paragraph 20.
 32. Corrado S. Mosna, Storia della Domenica dalle origini finoaglli Inezi del V secolo (Rome, Italy, 1969),p.44.
 33. Jean Daniélou, The Bible and Liturgy(South Bend, Indiana, 1956),p.242.
 34. Paul K. Jewett, The Lord's Day: A theological Guide to the Christian Day of Worship (Grand Rapids, 1972),p.57. Pacifico Massistates categorically: “The Resurrection is the only plausible explanation for the origin of Sunday” (La Domenica nella Storia della Salvezza[Napoli, 1967],p.43). F.A.regan affirms: “From the study of the above texts one may reasonably conclude that during the earliest days pf the Church there was only one liturgical feast and this feast was the weekly commemoration of the Resurrection of Christ” (“Dies Dominica and Dies Solis: The Beginning of the Lord's Day in Chrestian Antiquity,” Doctoral dissertation, The Catholic University of America [Washington, DC, 1961],p.191). See also Josef A. Jungmann, The Early Liturgy to the Time of Gregory the Great (South Bend, Indiana, 1959), pp. 19-21; also The Mass of the Roman Rite, Its Origin and Development (New York, 1951), vol. 1,p. 15; Y.B.tremel, “Du Sabbat au Jour du seigneur,” Lumiere et Vie (1962),p.441.
 35. The Resurrection of Christ is presented in the New Testament as the essence of the apostolic proclamation, faith, and hope. See, for example, Acts 1:22; 2:31; 3:75: 4:2,10,33: 5:30; 10:40; 13:33-37; 17:18,32; 24:15,21: 26:8; 1Cor 15:11-21; Rom 10:9; 1:1-4; 8:31-34; 14:9: 1 Thess 1:9-10.
 36. Harold Riesenfeld, “The Sabbath and the Lord's Day,” The Gospel Tradition: Essays by H. Riesenfeld (Oxford, 1970),p. 124.
 37. Harold Riesnfeld, “Sabbat et Jour du Seigneur,”in A. J .B. Higgins, ed.,N.T.Essays: Studies in Memory of T. W. Manson (Manchester, 1959),p. 212. For examples of the use of the phrase “Day of the Resurrection” for Sunday, see, Eusebius of the Caesarea, Commentary on Psalm 91, Patrologia Graeca 23, 1168; Apostolic Constitutions 2, 59,3.
 38. S. V. NcCasland, “The Origin of the Lord's Day,” Journal of Biblical Literature 49(1930),p.69. Similarly, Paul Cotton affirms: “There is nothing in the idea of the Resurrection that would necessarily produce the observance of Sunday as a Day of Worship”(From Sabbath to Sunday [Bethoehem, PA, 1933],p.79).
 39. Dies Domini, paragraph 19.
 40. Joachim Jeremias, “Pasha,” Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, Gerhard Friedrich, ed., (Grand Rapids, 1968), vol. 5,p.903,note 64.
 41. J.B.Lightfood, The Apostolic Fathers (London, 1885), vol. 2,p.88.
 42. For a discussion of the Psssover controversy and its implications for the origin of Sunday observance, see my dissertation From Sabbath to Sunday (note 23),pp. 198-207.
 43. Dies Domini, paragraph 20.
 44. Ibid.
 45. Johannes Behm, “Klao,” Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, Gerhard Kittel, ed., (Grand Rapids, 1974), vol. 3, p. 728.
 46. S. V. McCasland (note 38), p.69.
 47. Dies Domini, paragraph 24.
 48. See From Sabbath to Sunday (note 23),pp. 178-182.
 49. Justin Martyr, Apology 67, 7, The Ante-Nicence Fathers, Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson, eds.(Grand Rapids, 1973).vol. 1, p.186.
 50. Jean Danilou (note33), pp. 253,255.
 51. Jerome, In die dominica Paschae homilia, Corpus Christianorum Series Latina 78,550,1,52.
 52. For a discussion of the development of Sun-Worship and of the advancement of “the Day of Sun” in ancient Rome, see my dissertation From Sabbath to Sunday (note 23), pp. 238-262.
 53. Dies Domini, paragraph 27.
 54. Philaster, Liber de haeresibus 113, PL 12, 1257.
 55. Prescillian, Tractatus undecim, CSEL 18,p.14.See also, Martin of Braga, De correctione rusticorum ed. C.W.Barlow (New York, 1950), p. 189; Augustine, in Paslmos 61,23,CCL 39,p.792.
 56. Augustine, City of God 22,30, vernon J. Bourke, ed., (New York, 1958), p. 544.
 57. Dies Domini, paragraph 21.
 58. See From Sabbath to Sunday (nate 23), pp. 90-94.
 59. Dies Domini, paragraph 21.
 60. Dies Domini, paragraph 70.
 61. See From Sabbath to Sunday (nate 23), pp. 90-94.
 62. Corrado S. Mosna (no32),p. 7.
 63. Dies Domini, paragraph 21.
 64. F.F.Bruce, Commentary on the Book of the Acts (Grand Rapids, 1954), pp. 407-408.
 65. P.K.Jewett(note 34),p.61.
 66. F.J.Foakes-Jackson, The Acts of the Apostles (New York, 1954), p. 187.
 67. Dies Domini, paragraph 21.
 68. Corrado S. Mosna (note 32), p. 21.
 69. For texts and discussion of the Easter controversy, see From Sabbath to Sunday(note 23), pp. 198-207.
 70. Jean Danilou, The First Six Hundred Years(New York, 1964), vol. 1,p. 74.
 71. Dies Domini, paragraph 62.
 72. Dies Domini, paragraph 59.
 73. Dies Domini, paragraph 60.
 74. For texts and discussion, see From Sabbath to Sunday (note 23), pp. 278-301.
 75. For texts and discussion of the controversy surrounding the abandonment of the Sabbath and the adoption of Sunday, see From Sabbath to Sunday (note 23), pp. 213-269.
 76. Dies Domini, paragraph 47.
 77. Ibid., emphasis supplied.
 78. Catechism of the Catholic Church (note 11), p.526, paragraph 2180 Emphasis supplied.
 79. Ibid., p. 527, paragraph 2181. Emphasis supplied.
 80. Dies Domini, paragraph 49. Emphasis supplied.
 81. Ibid.
 82. Dies Domini, paragraph 43.
 83. Catechism of the Catholic Church (note 11), p.344, paragraph 1367. Emphasis supplied.
 84. Ibid., paragraph 1366.
 85. Dies Domini, paragraph 52.
 86. Dies Domini, paragraph 67.
 87. Dies Domini, paragraph 64.
 88. Ibid.
 89. Ibid.
 90. Ibid.
 91. Ibid.
 92. Dies Domini, paragraph 67.
 93. IDies Domini, paragraph 66.
 94. Dies Domini, paragraph 67.
 95. Catechism of the Catholic Church(note 11), p. 528, paragraphs 2187-2188.
 96. Dies Domini, paragraph 67.
 97. Cited by Michael J. Woodruff, “The Constitutionality of Sonday Laws,” Sunday 79(January-April 1991), p. 9.
 98. Ibid., pp.21-22.
 99. Dies Domini, paragraph 66.
 100. “Sunday Is Christ's Day, Commemorating His Resurrection,” New release, Vatican City,July 26, 1998.
 101. Cited in Honathan Kwitny, Man of the Century (New York, 1997), p. 592.
 102. J. Michael Miller, “The Vatican's Role in World affairs. The Diplomacy of Pope John Paul Ⅱ,” Speech delivered in the Fall of 1997 at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas.
 103. Ibid.
 104. Dies Domini, paragraph 65.
 105. Dies Domini, paragraph 67.
 106. Dies Domini, paragraph 13.
 107. Dies Domini, paragraph 15.
 108. Dies Domini, paragraph 61.
 109, Ibid.
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