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So if you are doing good works, regardless of whether it is an emergency or not, you are not breaking the Sabbath, agreed?As I have already stated Christ was trying to illustrate the fact that it is lawful to do good on the sabbath.
we keep the Sabbath in that every Saturday we remember Christ resting in the Tomb
So you are saying no you don’t rest on Saturday?
How do you explain the article I quoted from Ancient Faith Ministries?
if it's the article from Abbot Tryphon, he says in the article we don't rest on Saturday.
It is the article by Abbot Tryphon but I don’t read anywhere that he states there is no resting on the sabbath.
Actually the heading at the top of the article reads this:
The Orthodox practice of resting on the Sabbath while worshiping on Sundays
yes, and in the article he points out that the day of rest in the 4th century combined with the day of worship, which is Sunday.
Saturday is the day of God's Sabbath, when He rests from His works in the Tomb. so it is a day of rest, it just depends on what you mean.
What I mean is that I am interested in converting to the Orthodox Faith. But I am a sabbath keeper so I am asking if my beliefs would be consistent with the church?
it depends on why you keep it.
I keep it because it is the 4th commandment and Jesus taught that we should do and teach the commandments. Matthew 5:19
I meant do you keep it in an Orthodox Christian way, or in a Jewish way.
That Sunday is the sabbath is not the most typical answer I have found online from the Orthodox community.
I have found various answers online from the Orthodox community but this is what Wikipedia says:
Eastern Orthodoxy
Orthodox Sunday worship is not a direct Sabbath observance. The Eastern Orthodox Church observes the first day (liturgical Sunday, beginning Saturday evening) as a weekly feast, the remembrance of Christ's resurrection, and a mini-Pascha. As such, it tends to hold the first place within a week's observances, sharing that place only with other major feasts which occur from time to time. The Divine Liturgy is always celebrated, joining the participants on earth with those who offer the worship in God's kingdom, and hence joining the first day to the eighth day, wherein the communion of the whole Church with Christ is fully realized. As such, it is never surpassed as a time for the Orthodox to assemble in worship.
The Church affirms its authority to appoint the time of this feast (and all observances) as deriving from the authority given to the apostles and passed to the bishops through the laying-on of hands, for the sake of the governance of the Church on earth, and under the guidance of the Holy Spirit (John 20:22, John 14:26, Rom. 6:14-18, Rom. 7:6). It does not treat Sunday worship as a transference of Sabbath worship, but identifies the Sabbath, still on Saturday, as a Biblical "type", a precursor, realized fully only after Christ's fulfillment of the Mosaic Law (Mat. 5:17-18). Thus, the Sabbath and the Mosaic Law both remain as a teacher, reminding Christians to worship in holiness, but now according to grace, in Christian observations and Sunday worship.
The grace received in baptism binds the Church to Christ, who has given his people the freedom to seek him directly in relationship, not to pursue whatever suits one's fancy. The goal of that freedom is always union with Christ in theosis, and the maintenance of that union all the time, throughout this life and into the next, which is sometimes described as the "sanctification of time". Grace therefore never permits of whatever is sinful or unhelpful to salvation, such as laziness or hedonistic revelry. Rather, it becomes a stricter guide for behavior than any legal code, even the Mosaic, and disciplines the believer in some degree of ascetic endeavor (Rom. 6:14-18).[62]
Orthodoxy recognizes no mandated time for rest, a day or any other span, but the Church leads the individual to holiness in different ways, and recognizes the need for economy and for rest. Activities such as sleep, relaxation, and recreation become a matter of balance and proper handling, and acceptance of God's mercy. St. Basil the Greatexpresses thanks for this in a prayer often said by Orthodox Christians in the morning, after rising: "You do we bless, O Most High God and Lord of mercy, ... Who has given unto us sleep for rest from our infirmity, and for repose of our much-toiling flesh."[63] In recognition of God's gifts, therefore, the Church welcomes and supports civil laws that provide a day away from labor, which then become opportunities for Christians to pray, rest, and engage in acts of mercy. In grace do Christians respond, remembering both the example of the Sabbath rest, and Christ's lordship (Mk. 2:21-28).
The Sabbath is the 7th day in Orthodoxy, that has never changed. Sunday, the day of resurrection and 1st day of creation is Sunday.
Yes, but is it observed?
Throughout Church history it was mainly linked to the issue of fasting on the Sabbath day. In the East, fasting is prohibited (except on holy Saturday) and the Western Church (Rome) fasts on the Sabbath. This was one issue that led to the schism of 1054 AD but the it was an issue long before that.
https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/168563
So it is not observed as a day of rest and communion with God?
What is the difference?
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