On Sunday, March 15, 2026, during Mass at the Parish of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Rome, Pope Leo XIV explicitly identified Sunday as “the Lord’s Day” in his homily, linking it with worship, gratitude, and the mystery of life. This language is significant because it reflects Rome’s longstanding effort to attach sacred authority to Sunday while obscuring the biblical Sabbath, thereby openly demonstrating that it still regards itself as having the authority to redefine worship in defiance of the commandments of God.
• “Our Eucharistic celebration today, more than ever, is filled with joy. Indeed, the beauty of our gathering today is set against the backdrop of the Sunday known as ‘Laetare,’ meaning ‘rejoice‘.” [1]
• “Not only that: in the interrogation to which the blind man who can now see is subjected, it is above all Jesus who is put on trial, accused of having violated the Sabbath in order to heal him. Thus, another form of blindness is revealed in those present, one that is different and even more serious: that of failing to see, right before their eyes, the face of God, for which they trade the possibility of a saving encounter for the sterile security afforded by the legalistic observance of a formal discipline. Faced with such obtuseness, Jesus does not stop, showing that no “Sabbath” can stand in the way of an act of love. After all, the meaning of the Sabbath rest for the people of Israel – and for us on Sunday, the Lord’s Day – is precisely to celebrate the mystery of life as a gift, in the face of which no one can ignore the cry for help from a brother or sister who is suffering.” [1]
Rome’s words and actions prove that it has not changed, will not change, and never will change. The continued elevation of Sunday as “the Lord’s Day” instead of the seventh-day Sabbath shows that the papal system still claims the very authority prophecy warned about—the authority to think it can change God’s moral law (Daniel 7:25). Rather than submitting to the plain commandment of Scripture, Rome continues to exalt human tradition above divine revelation, proving that the system of apostasy foreseen in prophecy is still alive and active before our eyes.
The Bible teaches that the Sabbath is still binding because it was established by God at Creation, long before there was a Jewish nation, when “God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it” (Genesis 2:2–3). In the heart of God’s moral law, the Lord commands, “Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy… the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God” (Exodus 20:8–11), and Scripture never records God changing this command.
Jesus Himself said, “Think not that I am come to destroy the law” (Matthew 5:17–19), and He declared that “the sabbath was made for man” (Mark 2:27), showing it was made for all of mankind, not for one nation only. Jesus Himself declared, “The Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day” (Matthew 12:8), showing that the Sabbath belongs to Him as its divine Lord. As Creator, Lawgiver, and Redeemer, Christ did not abolish the Sabbath but identified Himself as its Lord, affirming its sacred authority and enduring significance.
Christ’s followers continued to honor the Sabbath after His death and resurrection (Luke 23:56), and the apostle Paul also preached on that day (Acts 13:42–44; Acts 17:2; Acts 18:4). Finally, the Bible points forward to the new earth, where “from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord” (Isaiah 66:22–23). These texts show plainly that the seventh-day Sabbath, or Saturday, remains God’s holy day, unchanged and still binding upon His people.
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