Catholic Moms and Holy Cross Family Ministries, Catholic organizations that state their mission is to inspire the spiritual well-being of Catholic families, published an article on January 6, 2026, titled “Sabbath Rest: My New Year’s Resolution.” The article openly promotes the idea of Sunday rest and seeks to reinforce the idea of Sunday sacredness as a moral obligation owed to God. In doing so, it cites biblical passages that apply to the seventh-day Sabbath, yet reinterprets and reapplies them to Sunday observance. Once again, Rome advances the teaching that the solemnity of the Sabbath has somehow been transferred from Saturday to Sunday—a change rooted in church tradition rather than biblical command.
The article states the following:
• “Third Commandment—What does your Sunday routine look like? After Mass, do you head home for family time and quiet prayer, or are you often running to sporting events and social gatherings?” [1]
• “The Church has wisely instructed that faithful Catholics attend Mass, at least, on Sundays, and we should of course be obedient to that. But Scripture is very clear about how we are to observe the Sabbath: rest. Not rushing around to events, not planning for the week ahead or doing chores we didn’t get to last week; ideally, not doing any work at all.” [1]
• “This is why many Catholics like me obediently get themselves to Mass each Sunday but don’t necessarily rest. Humans really struggle to not do anything. But, if we never rest, we will eventually and inevitably crash.” [1]
• “Our Creator knows our nature better than we do, so He knew we would need a prescribed, even mandated, day of rest. In Mark 2:27, Jesus tells us that ‘the sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath.’ Sunday isn’t just about giving God the gift of ourselves through worship. Sunday is also God’s beautiful and very needed gift of rest to us.” [1]
• “My New Year’s Resolution for 2026 is to truly make Sunday a day of rest. Would you like to join me?” [1]
Catholic Moms concludes its article with a direct appeal: “Would you like to join me?” – presenting Sunday rest as a New Year’s resolution. This invitation is an intentional call to normalize and popularize Sunday sacredness within society. This work aligns with the Catholic-Protestant agenda of reintroducing Sunday as a moral and social institution for faith, family, and community life. Whenever religious movements promote Sunday rest as a divinely mandated solution for restoring society’s moral order, what they are in effect doing is laying down the groundwork for future civil legislation for Sunday by law.
Catholic Moms concludes its article with a direct appeal—“Would you like to join me?”—presenting Sunday rest as a New Year’s resolution. This invitation is an intentional effort to normalize and popularize Sunday sacredness within society. Such messaging aligns with the Catholic–Protestant agenda to reintroduce Sunday as a moral and social institution for faith, family, and community life. When religious movements promote Sunday rest as a divinely mandated solution for restoring society’s moral order, they are, in effect, laying the groundwork for future civil legislation enforcing Sunday observance by law.
According to the Three Angels’ Messages of Revelation 14, the final conflict over worship will center on obedience to God’s commandments versus the traditions of men. While rest is indeed a gift from God, the day of rest matters, because the true Sabbath—sanctified at Creation (Genesis 2:2–3) and reaffirmed in the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:8–11)—is the seventh day, Saturday, not Sunday. Jesus did not change the Sabbath but instead restored its true purpose (Luke 4:16; Matthew 24:20).
The transfer of Sabbath sacredness to Sunday was a post-biblical, church decision, made by Rome in its effort to “change times and laws” (Daniel 7:25). This trend continues today and serves as a solemn reminder that the issues of worship and rest are rapidly moving toward a Sunday law crisis. Yet at this critical moment, by God’s grace, there will be a faithful proclamation uplifting the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus, calling all people to worship “Him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters” (Revelation 14:7), and to embrace God’s seventh-day Sabbath as the seal of the living God.
Sources
[1] https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/sabbath-rest-my-new-years-resolution
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