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In Orthodoxy both Saturday (Sabbath) and Sunday (Lord's day, 8th day etc) are festive days set apart from the other five days of the week.
However there is no requirement to remain idle on the Sabbath or any other day of the week. Preference is given to rest on Sunday rather than Saturday as to not fall into judaising, but resting even on Sunday is optional. There is no obligatory day of rest in Orthodoxy. Regardless, many white collar jobs in the west are shut on Saturdays and Sundays. Schools are closed on Saturdays and Sundays etc. This is from the ancient custom that held these two days in high esteem.
Orthodoxy views both the Sabbath and the Lord's Day as customary days that can be reserved for worship in liturgy as seen in the canons of Laodicea where Saturdays and Sundays are considered exempt from Lent:
Canon 49
During Lent the Bread must not be offered except on the Sabbath Day and on the Lord's Day only.
Canon 51
The nativities of Martyrs are not to be celebrated in Lent, but commemorations of the holy Martyrs are to be made on the Sabbaths and Lord's days.
The Canons of Trullo in 680 AD makes clear that the full Divine Liturgy should not be celebrated during Lent as the season is too somber EXCEPT for Saturdays and Sundays and on the Annunciation as these days perpetually remain festive even through lent:
Canon 52
On all days of the holy fast of Lent, except on the Sabbath, the Lord's day and the holy day of the Annunciation (March 25), the Liturgy of the Presanctified is to be said.
Trullo even rebukes Roman practise for holding strict fasts on the Sabbath:
Canon 55
Since we understand that in the city of the Romans, in the holy fast of Lent they fast on the Saturdays, contrary to the ecclesiastical observance which is traditional, it seemed good to the holy synod that also in the Church of the Romans the canon shall immovably stands fast which says: If any cleric shall be found to fast on a Sunday or Saturday (except on one occasion only; great and holy saturday) he is to be deposed; and if he is a layman he shall be cut off.
However there is no requirement to remain idle on the Sabbath or any other day of the week. Preference is given to rest on Sunday rather than Saturday as to not fall into judaising, but resting even on Sunday is optional. There is no obligatory day of rest in Orthodoxy. Regardless, many white collar jobs in the west are shut on Saturdays and Sundays. Schools are closed on Saturdays and Sundays etc. This is from the ancient custom that held these two days in high esteem.
Orthodoxy views both the Sabbath and the Lord's Day as customary days that can be reserved for worship in liturgy as seen in the canons of Laodicea where Saturdays and Sundays are considered exempt from Lent:
Canon 49
During Lent the Bread must not be offered except on the Sabbath Day and on the Lord's Day only.
Canon 51
The nativities of Martyrs are not to be celebrated in Lent, but commemorations of the holy Martyrs are to be made on the Sabbaths and Lord's days.
The Canons of Trullo in 680 AD makes clear that the full Divine Liturgy should not be celebrated during Lent as the season is too somber EXCEPT for Saturdays and Sundays and on the Annunciation as these days perpetually remain festive even through lent:
Canon 52
On all days of the holy fast of Lent, except on the Sabbath, the Lord's day and the holy day of the Annunciation (March 25), the Liturgy of the Presanctified is to be said.
Trullo even rebukes Roman practise for holding strict fasts on the Sabbath:
Canon 55
Since we understand that in the city of the Romans, in the holy fast of Lent they fast on the Saturdays, contrary to the ecclesiastical observance which is traditional, it seemed good to the holy synod that also in the Church of the Romans the canon shall immovably stands fast which says: If any cleric shall be found to fast on a Sunday or Saturday (except on one occasion only; great and holy saturday) he is to be deposed; and if he is a layman he shall be cut off.
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