Sunday

See also: Sunday (homonymy)

The Sunday is traditionally the first day of the week but often considered in a modern way as the last. In France in particular, the working week begins only the next day and the calendars are printed with Sunday at the weekend. Certain recent dictionaries define it as the last day of the week but not all. The word Sunday is resulting from the Latin dies Dominicus , “dominicus” meaning “of the lord”. From there the “Sunday. The other days of the week are: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.

The etymology of the term can be recalled starting from the Didachè: Dies dominicus is a translation of the Greek Kuriake Heméra . In this day, Christ is celebrated in Eucharistie as Seigneur.

With regard to the polemic to decide if Sunday is the first, which can cause the astonishment today, or the last day of the week, each and everyone can make an investigation which will show quickly that Sunday was well from time immemorial regarded as the first day.

The Bible (Gn 2.3) known as that God rested the 7th day, day which is the Jewish Sabbath corresponding to Western Saturday.

The French Academy notes, in the ninth edition of its dictionary:

“Traditionally, and today still in the religious language, first day of the week (MT 28.1) which commemorates the resurrection of Christ; it comprised also the regulation of the rest. In the current language, seventh and last day of the week.”

Littré of 1863 only indicates: " first day of the semaine".

Famous the " creation date of the monde" was located by the Usher bishop on Sunday, October 23, 4004 before J.C.

The Anglo-Saxon calendars are generally printed with Sunday in first and certain Internet sites continue to respect this use. However one cannot whom a general tendency notices adopt the " nouveau" system and one can notice for example that the operating system Vista from Microsoft, including in English, watch a date " modernisée" : sunday, 26 August 2007 (instead of traditional the " Sunday, August 26th 2007).

The Romans associated this day with the Sun ( dies solis ); one still finds this etymology in the English words Sunday or German Sonntag . In the Anglo-Saxon countries, Sunday is often regarded as the first day of the week.

The tradition of Christian Sunday

Sunday is the day when Christ is ressuscity. According to the Catholic tradition , Jesus dies on the cross one Friday afternoon. One quickly buries it because of the Shabbat which starts as of fallen the night and during which it is interdict to bury deaths and to cover them perfume. The women myrrhophores are thus obliged to wait Sunday morning (first day of the week), to carry out the embalmings and preparations which they had not had time to make Friday before laying down it sun. They discover whereas the tomb is empty.

Each Sunday is the celebration of the resurrection of Christ, capital event on which the faith of the believers is based. This is why Sunday is also regarded as the eighth day of a new creation inaugurated by Resurrection. Certain Christians, the Adventist of the seventh day in particular, celebrate the Sabbat (Saturday) memorial of the divine creation and day of worship as the Décalogue stipulates it.

It is during the day of Sunday that the principal eucharistic celebration of the week takes place known as Messe among catholics, cene among Protestants and liturgy at the orthodoxe ones. With the “Sunday mass” each catholic must go. To facilitate this participation, the Roman Church obtained that Sunday becomes obligatory day of rest (starting from IVe and Ve centuries in Rome, since the Constantin emperor).

The Sabbath which was celebrated until this time by all the Christians, continued to be observed parallèlementdans many communities out of Rome where Sunday, day of the solar god Roman Mithra (also called " Seigneur" by its admirers), was even imposed by the force while making it compulsory under the Théodose emperor (Any noncatholic worship was prohibited). Gradually, it became it in all the Roman empire (See the part Histoire).

Among catholics, Sunday evening is the occasion of another celebration, called " the Vespers " , fallen largely in disuse but still practiced in the abbeys and monasteries, and certain mediums.

Currently, Sunday being the day of rest in Occident, much regard it as the last day of the week.

Particular Sundays of the Christian calendar

Sunday is the holy day of the majority of the Christian confessions.
Sunday which precedes Easter is the Palm Sunday.

In the use specific to the Latin Church

In Catholicism, the Liturgical year begins first Sunday of the Avent, that is to say four weeks before Christmas (see " Christian Calendar ").
fifth Sunday after Easter is the Sunday of Rogations.
eighth Sunday after Easter is Sunday of the Trinité.
first Sunday of the Lent is called the Sunday of the Bore-holes .

In the use specific to the orthodoxe Church

During the Lent of Christmas:

Sunday of the ancestors, Sunday located from 14 to 20 days before Christmas.
Sunday of the genealogy, Sunday which precedes Christmas.

During the time of Christmas:

Sunday of the close relations of Seigneur', Sunday between Christmas and the New Year's Day.

Five Sundays preceding the large Lent:

Sunday of Zachée, 5th Sunday before the Large Lent.
Sunday of the Pharisee and Publicain, 4th Sunday before the Large Lent.
Sunday of the Prodigal son, 3rd Sunday before the Large Lent.
Sunday of the last Judgment, or Sunday of the Carnival.
Sunday of Forgiveness, or Sunday of Tyrophagie.

Five Sundays of the large Lent:

Sunday of Orthodoxy, 1st Sunday of Lent, commemoration of the re-establishment of the icons on March 11th, 843.
Sunday of saint Gregoire Palamas, 2nd Sunday of Lent.
Sunday of the Cross, 3rd Sunday of Lent, medium of the Lent.
Sunday of saint Jean Climaque, 4th Sunday of Lent.
Sunday of holy Marie the Egyptian woman, 5th Sunday of Lent.

Seven Sundays of Pascal time and the rise

Easter Sunday, 1st Easter Sunday.
Sunday of Thomas, 2nd Easter Sunday (or 1st Sunday after Easter).
Sunday of Myrrhophores, 3rd Easter Sunday (or 2nd Sunday after Easter).
Sunday of Paralytic, 4th Easter Sunday (or 3rd Sunday after Easter).
Sunday of Samaritaine, 5th Easter Sunday (or 4th Sunday after Easter).
Sunday of Blind man-born, 6th Easter Sunday (or 5th Sunday after Easter).
Sunday of the Fathers of the council of Nicée I, Sunday after the Rise.

Sundays of Pentecost

Sunday of Pentecost, celebrates Trinity, descent of the Holy Spirit on the apostles (50 days after Easter).
Sunday of All the Saints, 1st Sunday after Pentecost.
Sunday of All the Saints of the place, 2nd Sunday after Pentecost.

History of Sunday like day of rest

Sunday as day of rest in the graeco-latin culture goes up with a decree of the emperor Constantin I {{er}}, on March 7th 321: " At the worthy day of the sun, that the magistrates and the inhabitants rest and that all the workshops are closed ". Owing to the fact that this day is also the day of the resurrection of Christ, " Sun of justice" according to the Christians, it also imposed it to the Christians of Rome. By this decree, it established a conciliation between the two principal religions of Rome and the empire: it was well in the spirit of the Edict of Milan (313) which was a true edict of tolerance, but with the detriment of fidelity to the Decalog seigneurial for the Christians. Its successors, vis-a-vis the resistance of much of Christians remained faithful to the divine Sabbath, ended up making it compulsory in all the Roman empire. After persecutions, the controversies remained between believers with same God. The major divergences opposed arien S and believers in the divinity of Christ: if Christ is Seigneur, the day of its resurrection is well a Sunday. The Sunday in the Bible is the day of its return in glory at the end of this world to establish its kingdom eternal and not a day of the week (1 Th 5.2; Ac 2.20; 2 pi 3.10; Ap 1.10). Jean was transported by the Spirit in this glorious day as Paul was charmed with the third sky at the time of a vision (2 Co 12.2).

During the French revolution

In France, the Gregorian Calendrier was removed, under the national Convention, by a Committee, during the Pontificat of Pie VI. The French revolution set up a republican Calendrier, with some ten days weeks. Sunday was thus removed. That posed problems of rest in the campaigns, since one had only one day out of ten to rest.

That caused also difficulties in the border regions, for the economic exchanges.

One founded the Culte of the supreme Reason and Être, like various measurements of Déchristianisation. The churches were closed in France, and were transformed into warehouses, temples of peace,…

The Gregorian Calendar and the Sunday were restored in 1806.

France thus made a relatively single experiment in the History of civilizations, of attempt at replacement of the calendar at seven days, with what corresponded to the Sunday Repos.

Re-establishment of the Sunday rest (France)

In 1906, the law of the Sunday rest devoted Sunday like day of rest in France.

Sundays remained famous

the January 22nd 1905 is called Sunday Sanglant (or Red Sunday ) with Saint-Pétersbourg. It is the beginning of the Russian Révolution of 1905.
the September 3rd 1939 is an episode of the Second world war called Sunday strapping of Bydgoszcz .
on Sunday, January 30 1972, with Derry, in Northern Ireland, is organized a peaceful walk for the equal rights between catholics and Protestants. In spite of attempts at negotiation with the British police force, the demonstration is transformed into riot: thirteen people are killed by the army. This day, from now on registered in the History under the name of Bloody Sunday , mark the beginning of the civil war.

Others

Sunday is the second and last day of the Week-end, of the End of the week.
In many jurisdictions of Christian culture, the trade is restricted Sunday.
In France, the Fête of the mothers takes place last Sunday of May, except if it coincides with the day of the Pentecost, in this case it takes place first Sunday of June.

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