Lord's Day

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Lord's Day

or Lord's day (lôrdz)

Sunday, observed as the Sabbath in most forms of Christianity.

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Lord's Day

(Ecclesiastical Terms) the Lord's Day the Christian Sabbath; Sunday

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Lord's′ day`

(or Day`),

n.
the,

Sunday.

[1175–1225]

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Noun

Lord's Day - first day of the week; observed as a day of rest and worship by most Christians

Dominicus, Sunday, Sun

day of rest, rest day - a day set aside for rest

weekend - a time period usually extending from Friday night through Sunday; more loosely defined as any period of successive days including one and only one Sunday

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Lord’s Day

n (Rel) the Lord’s Day → der Tag des Herrn

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I never saw him going there, and I pass it every Lord's day.

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But the Vicar insisted that Philip should be clean and sweet for the lord's Day. Mary Ann said she would rather go than be put upon--and after eighteen years she didn't expect to have more work given her, and they might show some consideration--and Philip said he didn't want anyone to bath him, but could very well bath himself.

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Secondly, we have the fact that 'the Lord's Day' is a Christian institution.

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No victuals whatever cooked on the Lord's Day, with the exception of dinner for Mr and Mrs Gallanbile, which, being a work of piety and necessity, is exempted.

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In worship last Lord's Day, our church family observed The Lord's Supper.

The judgment of others doesn't matter in the end

The London Baptist preacher, Charles Spurgeon took it as meaning every Lord's Day. He wrote, 'I thank God that, coming to this table every Sabbath-day, as some of us do, and have done for many years, we have yet for the most part enjoyed the nearest communion with Christ here that we have ever known, and have a thousand times blessed his name for this ordinance.'

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"Next week, I'll explain how the Bible uses the phrase "the Lord's Day" to refer to going to church on Sunday.

Sabbath is different from 'the Day of the Lord'

Canon law lists the precepts of life as a faithful Catholic, including honoring the Lord's Day and holy days of obligation, participating in the sacrament of reconciliation at least once every year, receiving the Eucharist during the Easter season, fasting on Good Friday and Ash Wednesday, and supporting the material needs of the church.

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10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,

'ONCE SAVED ALWAYS SAVED, NOT SO?'

The Lord's Day being a Sunday has already been taken away as a holy day because it seems to be able to shop six days a week, 24 hours a day is not enough.

Allow us to keep this holy day

And love Him by honoring His name, by keeping the Lord's Day. Don't insult God.

Filipinos reminded of 'three greatest loves' on Feast of Saint Valentine

He went home quietly in his sleep on Our Lord's day on the eve of the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, exactly one year after our Pearl Jubilee as a diocese when the apostolic nuncio to the Philippines visited us.'