"Remember the Sabbath day—keep it holy. Six days you may labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a sabbath of the Lord, your God." The third commandment is a counter-cultural command: amid the daily pressures of life, we are to deliberately set apart the Lord's day as a day for rest and worship. This session will explore how our lives as Christians should be changed forever by the astonishing, singular event of history: the resurrection of the Lord on Easter Sunday.
Read and Study: United States Catholic Catechism for Adults Chapter 27 (pgs. 361-371)
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