The arguments and logic expressed by Daphne Caruana Galizia in her article “Our day of rest doesn’t have to be Sunday” (TMIS, 1 April) could not have been more sound or appropriate.

The insistence of today’s Catholic Church that Sunday, rather than any other weekday, is ‘The day of the Lord’, opens an old can of worms that takes us back to the time of Constantine, the pagan Roman emperor who changed the original Christian Sabbath day of rest that fell on Saturday to ‘Sun-Day’, the day for the worship of Sol Invictus, the late Roman period Sun God.

After 321 AD, the official Roman ‘Day of Rest’ was decreed by the emperor to be Sunday and Christians were compelled to stop worshipping on Saturday, their former Sabbath, which was abolished and replaced by a special day dedicated to the Sun God , who Constantine worshipped as being identical to Jesus.

This was in fact a political imposition on Christians by the Roman emperor in an endeavour to avoid sectarian disputes among his subjects.

One naturally is bound to ask: if in 321 AD the Fathers of the Church so timidly accepted, on the whim of a pagan emperor, to change the Holy Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday and, wonder of wonders, it has remained unchanged to this day, why should the local Curia kick up such a fuss over a particular day of the week that was chosen, after all, by the pagan Roman emperor in honour of the Sun God, an idolatrous entity?

Vladimir Cini

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