The Sabbath Day.🙏🏻

The mind needs its Sabbath as well as the body. A day of rest is a necessity for overworked brains and overstrained nerves. It is a good thing to pause every seventh day and rest our mind in quietness, contemplating those things which lie beyond the fret and fever of the workaday world.

‘Six days shalt thou labour’. (Exodus:20). (Patience Strong)

‘If you turn back your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my Holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight, and the Holy Day of The Lord honourable, if you honour it not going your own way, or seeking your own pleasure, or talking idly; then you shall take delight in The Lord, and I will make you ride upon the heights of the earth; I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father, for the mouth of The Lord has spoken’. (Isaiah 58 : 13-14)

‘Let us make God great in public and private life. This means making room for God in our lives every day, starting in the morning with prayers and then dedicating time to God, giving Sundays to God. We do not waste our free time if we offer it to God. When God enters into our time, all time becomes greater, roomier and richer’. (Pope Benedict Emeritus - Homily 2005)