Timothy Dolan is part of the Catholic Church’s global voice, promoting its positions on moral and social issues and participating in major public events, including national prayers and civic ceremonies. He was also appointed by Donald Trump to serve on the White House Religious Liberty Commission, where his role is to help make policy recommendations to the White House and agencies like the Department of Justice. If those recommendations are adopted, they can carry significant influence.
On Sunday, May 3, 2026, Cardinal Timothy Dolan was emphasizing that Sunday Mass is the central and unifying pillar of spiritual life. Speaking from Lourdes, he describes the powerful, inspiring experience of worshiping with thousands of believers and highlights how regular participation in Sunday Mass brings renewal and spiritual vitality. He shares a personal testimony of someone who found that returning to consistent Sunday Mass attendance became the “miracle” that reignited her faith, reinforcing his message that keeping Sunday as the Lord’s Day is essential for sustaining and revitalizing one’s relationship with God.
The Catholic cardinal said:
• “A blessed Sunday, everybody. A blessed Sabbath. A blessed Lord’s Day. Timothy Dolan here—thanks for tuning in. We’re here at Lourdes, the renowned shrine in southwestern France where our Blessed Mother appeared to Saint Bernadette. And today is Sunday, and there’s a special spice and pizzazz because we just left Sunday Mass, which, wherever we’re at, is the anchor, the core of the week. We were just there; there had to be at least 10,000 pilgrims from all over the world, every language possible, a beautiful mass, and music, and we just left it, so we’re inspired, but wherever we’re at, Sunday Mass is so important to us” (Video).
• “I was talking to somebody not long ago who said she was here four years ago, and she was praying for a miracle that her spiritual life would be a kind of electrified, renewed, revived. And it came to her after Sunday Mass here at Lourdes that the best thing she could do is get back to the practice of Sunday Mass, which is such a cornerstone for us Catholics—Sunday Mass to keep holy the Lord’s Day. And she’s done it ever since. She’s back now, and she said that was the miracle she needed to spark her spiritual life—Sunday Mass” (Video).
The claim that Sunday Mass is the “anchor” of spiritual life rests entirely on human tradition rather than the authority of Scripture. The Bible consistently identifies the seventh day—Saturday, not Sunday—as the Lord’s holy Sabbath, instituted at Creation (Genesis 2:1–3), written by God’s own finger in the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:8–11), and kept by Christ Himself (Luke 4:16). Nowhere does Scripture transfer that sanctity to Sunday. Therefore, it is a divine institution established by God Himself, not by any church decree.
While gathering for worship is important, true spiritual renewal does not come through adherence to a man-made counterfeit day of worship but through obedience to God’s commandments and a living relationship with Christ (John 17:17; John 14:15). Revelation describes that the final test will be centered on worship and obedience and that the faithful will “keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus” (Revelation 14:12). From this perspective, elevating Sunday as the “core of the week” prepares minds to accept the counterfeit mark of the beast rather than receiving the seal of God. The true “anchor” of spiritual life is not a man-designated day, but Christ Himself—honored through obedience to all that He has commanded, including His holy Sabbath.
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“23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. ”
John 4:23-24 KJV
“For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day. ”
Matthew 12:8 KJV
“8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. ”
Exodus 20:8-11 KJV
How can a man-made day of worship – sunday worship be a spark to anyones spiritual life?
God is a spirit and He is the Lord of the 7th Day Sabbath.
When we submit to God through obedience, He gives us the Holy Spirit:
“And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him. ”
Acts 5:32 KJV
Man-made things are after the flesh; they are carnal/man-made.
The carnal mind is against God; this is obvious because of the man-made laws clashing with God’s Holy Moral Laws.
Man-made laws cannot please God:
“5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. ”
Romans 8:5-8 KJV
Amen brother.
History will be repeated. False religion will be exalted. The first day of the week, a common working day, possessing no sanctity whatever, will be set up as was the image at Babylon. All nations and tongues and peoples will be commanded to worship this spurious sabbath. This is Satan’s plan to make of no account the day instituted by God, and given to the world as a memorial of creation. ST May 6, 1897, par. 14
The decree enforcing the worship of this day is to go forth to all the world. In a limited degree, it has already gone forth. In several places the civil power is speaking with the voice of a dragon, just as the heathen king spoke to the Hebrew captives. ST May 6, 1897, par. 15
Trial and persecution will come to all who, in obedience to the Word of God, refuse to worship this false sabbath. Force is the last resort of every false religion. (…) ST May 6, 1897, par. 16
The commandments of finite, sinful men are to sink into insignificance beside the Word of the eternal God. Truth is to be obeyed at any cost, even tho gaping prisons, chain-gangs, and banishment stare us in the face. If you are loyal and true, that God who walked with the three Hebrew children in the fiery furnace, who protected Daniel in the lions’ den, who manifested himself to John on the lonely island, will go with you wherever you go. His abiding presence will comfort and sustain you; and you will realize the fulfilment of the promise, “If a man love me, he will keep my words; and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.” ST May 6, 1897, par. 18
Sunday is a Roman Catholic institution , and this spurious sabbath is the child of Papacy. Catholic Church takes credit for the change. Here there is a quote from Catholic newspaper in sydney. Sunday is a catholic institution and it’s claims to observance is only based on catholic principles. From the beggining to the end of scripture there is no single passage that warrants the transffer of weekly public worship from the last day of the week to the first.
The Catholic mirror of September 23,1894, put’s it this way: ” The Catholic Church for over 1,000 years before the existence of protestant by virtue of her divine mission, changed the day from sabbath to sunday.” From the convert’s catechism of Catholic doctrine by Reverand Peter Giermann.
Question; Which is the sabbath day? Answer? Saturday is the sabbath day. Question?Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday? Answer? We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic Church transffered the solemnity from sabbath to Sunday in the Council of Laodicea?
From the Doctrinal Catechism we read this; Question: Have you any other power of proving the Church has the power to institute the festivals of precepts? Answer : Had she not had such power, she could not have done all that what the modern religionists agree with her; she could not have substituted the day of observance from Sabbath to Sunday a change which there is no scriptural authority.
From the Cardinal’s Gibbon’s book, The question’s box, P.179,”If Bible is the only guide for the christian, then the Seventh day Adventist is right in observing saturday with the Jew . Is it not strange for those who make bible as their only teacher should inconsistently follow in this matter the tradition of the Catholic Church.