Re: calander package - Proposal for dates

[John English <je@bton.ac.uk>]

Wilhelm Spickermann wrote:
> 
> On 20-Mar-01 Martin Dowie wrote:
> > well, I can only spoke from a Church of Scotland (Christian,
> > Presbyterian)
> > background
> > but "on the 7th day he rested", making Monday the first day. :-)
> 
> Exactly - but that day he rested was called sabbat(=saturday) :-) . The
> early christians held additional meetings on the first day of the week
> to celebrate the resurrection of christ (Matthew 28.1: (please excuse
> the bad translation, I don�t have an english bible) "When the sabbat was
> over and the first day of the week startet, Maria Magdalena and the
> other Maria came to view the grave."). When the first non-jews became
> christians, they were not obliged to hold the sabbat, and so sunday
> became the common holy day of christians. The idea was too, that the
> important thing from the genesis was having one day of rest every
> week and not on which exact day it should be held.

As an atheist, I'm a complete agnostic on this particular subject... ;-)

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