Although he happily watched me light the sabbath candles and even attended synagogue once, he was never going to be a part of the religious life I was constructing for myself. |
Enacted at Paris, in the year of grace 1221, in the month of February, on the sabbath after the feast of St. Matthew the apostle. |
The ancient Israelites celebrated the sabbath as a day of solemn rest but as a festive occasion as well. |
The Mithraists observed weekly sabbath days and celebrated the Eucharist by eating wafers marked with a cross. |
Jesus did not call upon people to repent, or fast, or observe the sabbath. |
Our highest calling is to our God, the One God, before whom we have no other gods, whose name we do not take in vain, and whose sabbath day we keep sacred. |