In the United States, many Christians say that they observe Sunday, the first day of the week, at least in part, to commemorate the resurrection which they believe took place on the first day of the week. However, many areas of Europe use a calendar that has Sunday as the seventh day of the week. Does anyone know, in those areas that use that calendar, on what day they hold their weekly worship services? If they hold it on the seventh day, do they also do anything special on the first day in celebration of the resurrection?
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Originally posted by rstrats View PostIn the United States, many Christians say that they observe Sunday, the first day of the week, at least in part, to commemorate the resurrection which they believe took place on the first day of the week. However, many areas of Europe use a calendar that has Sunday as the seventh day of the week. Does anyone know, in those areas that use that calendar, on what day they hold their weekly worship services? If they hold it on the seventh day, do they also do anything special on the first day in celebration of the resurrection?
Many online calendars will let you choose the starting day of the week; but so far as I can see, this is just a way for the user to have the weekend days displayed together at the left or right -- I have grouped mine to the right -- instead of the default of splitting the weekend onto different lines in different weeks.
What I suspect your query is based on is the international standard for dates and times, ISO 8601, which says:
Week date representations are in the format as shown in the box to the right. [YYYY] indicates the ISO week-numbering year which is slightly different from the traditional Gregorian calendar year (see below). [Www] is the week number prefixed by the letter W, from W01 through W53. [D] is the weekday number, from 1 through 7, beginning with Monday and ending with Sunday. This form is popular in the manufacturing industries.
The last probably explains why the ISO has Sunday as weekday number 7: international standards are written for the facilitation of trade and the convenience of commerce; I expect software is slightly more simple, hence more reliable and robust, if the main working week is grouped together as days 1-5 or 1-6 (or 1-7 for places open all week), with the relatively non-commercial day 7 as an outlier.
Hope this helps.
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I've seen calendars here in the U.S. that start with Monday and end with Sunday with the explanation that is when the work week starts (at least for most people) and with Saturday and Sunday at the end you have a true weekend.
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In Germany they go to church on Sundays. As well in Italy, and Austria. Those are the countries I am personally familiar with. I think all Christians go to church on Sundays, no matter what day of the week you want to call it.
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Originally posted by Sparko View PostIn Germany they go to church on Sundays. As well in Italy, and Austria. Those are the countries I am personally familiar with. I think all Christians go to church on Sundays, no matter what day of the week you want to call it.
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"You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
"Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
"Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman
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Did no one mention that it is not relevant to the day of worship to point to today's calendars?Micah 6:8 He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
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Interestingly, there are Adventists who are not SDA's. I know one such pastor through a ministry setting. As far as I can tell he is orthodox, and his church does meet on Sundays.
I think the SDA church will become discussed more in the coming months because of Ben Carson."I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill
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Originally posted by rstrats View PostJedidiah,
re: "Did no one mention that it is not relevant to the day of worship to point to today's calendars?"
So what might be relevant to the supreme being's prefered day for one's observance?Micah 6:8 He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
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Originally posted by KingsGambit View PostInterestingly, there are Adventists who are not SDA's. I know one such pastor through a ministry setting. As far as I can tell he is orthodox, and his church does meet on Sundays.
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