The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-06-05
Is it rlaht to sell blessed articles

like candles, rosaries, ETC.?
The Ecclesiastical Review for May
contains the following information on
this point: Blessed candles, rosaries,
etc, are classed as temporal things,
to which spiritual value has been
annexed. The general principle is
that the selling of such objects after
they have been blessed is not simony,
so long as the price is not increased
on account of the blessing, because in
that case the price would be paid for
the temporal thing, not for the spir-
itual benefits attached to it. How
ever, it is expressly forbidden by de-
crees of the Sacred Congregation of
Indulgences to sell or buy or expose
for sale rosaries, medals, ETC., once
they are blessed, and part of the pen
atty for infringement of this order is
the loss of the indulgences attached to
the articles in question"
Why was the Sabbath day changed
to Sunday? If it should be so, why
did not Our Lord when He was on
earth make the change? Who changed
the Sabbath day to Sunday?
Our Lord tells us that man was
made for the Sabbath, not the Sab
bath for man. This would imply
that the essential element in the third
commandment is that man be given a
day of rest in seven, some day, the
particular day being less important
than that it be one day in seven,
In the old law this day was the sew
enth, because on that day God rested
from all His works and thereby made
this day holy. Now, as in the Old
Covenant the day appointed to be kept
holy was the one on which God had
completed His work of creation and
had established His covenant with
man; SO in the New Dispensation
the day selected out of the seven to
be given to God is the one on which
Jesus Christ had completed His work
of Redemption and on which He gave
to the world the divine sanction of
the New Covenant of God with man,
by His Resurrection from the dead.
Furthermore, this Dispensation was
not to pass away. For, on the same
day of the week, that is, Sunday, the
Holy Ghost came down upon the
Apostles, the Disciples and the holy
women (the infant Church) to remain
with the Church forever; both here
and hereafter. Even in the Old Tesla
ment God foretold that the Sabbath
10 Thic fO hn in no rt
the punishment that He would inflict
upon Israel because of it's infidelities.
In Osee III, IL, we read: "And | will
cause all her mirth to cease, her sol
emnities, her new moons, her Sab
baths and all her festival times
The Jews protested against the change
being made. They condemned the
Christians for not observing the Sab
bath, as they also condemned them
for not observing the distinction be-
tween clean and unclean meats. But
st. Paul comes to their rescue. Writ
ing to the Colossians Gil, 49, he says:
And you He hath quickened i.
forgiving you all offences. +.
Let no man therefore judge you in
meat or in drink, or in respect of a
festival day, or of the new moon, or
of the Sabbaths, which are a shadow
of things to come; but, the Body is
of things to come, but, the Body is OF
Christ"
Our Lord came, as He says, not to
destroy but to fulfill the Law He OBJ
served the Law as long as it obtained
Even at His last supper He ate the
Passover commanded by the law OF
Moses; but, having obeyed the law
He completed, or fulfilled it by giving
to us what the Law foreshadowed
namely, the fulfillment of the Law
the fulness of Revelation. 1t is St
Paul who tells us that the Jewish
shadows of things to come. 1t would
scarcely be fitting that Our Lord
should change the day to be kept holy
according to the Old Law, as long as
this Law was in effect. BY His obedi
ence to the Law evidently He con
sidered it to be in force. 1t was after
He had observed the Law and had full
filed it, by giving to us the New Law
the new covenant of God with man
that new day, the Lords day, was
appointed to be kept holy. This day
is Sunday.
1t is certainly possible and quite
probable that Our Lord after His
Resurrection instructed His Apostles
to keep holy the Sunday rather than
the Saturday. He was with them dur
ing His risen life for forty days
speaking of the Kingdom of God" 1t
is true we have no word in the New
Testament which explicitly gives
such a command. But all that Our
Lord said is not written. We have,
however, in the New Testament con-
elusive evidence that the Apostles OBJ
served religious worship on Sunday
In Acts Xxx, SD: 1--WE came to them
to Troas, where we abode seven days.
And on the first day of the week when
we we're assembled to break bread,
Paul discoursed with them Again
in his first letter to the Corinthians,
ST. Paul tells them to take up a col
lection for the saints that are at Jeru-
salem and this is to be done he says,
con the first day of the week, .
that when come the collection be
not then to be made The same or
der he says he had given to the
Churches of Galatia. q Cor. XVI, 1-2),
st. John in the Apocalypse (1-10) gives
tho dav new name. "The Lords