A History of the Commandments of the Church

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SerVile nature Were permitted.

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laW of custom, and thia consideration fur-

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In tho Baltimore Catechism this commmmentis mentioned under the First Commandment: Τοhoar Mass on Sunduys and holydays of Obligation. The institution os feasis is not peculiar to any one religion ; it is, even more than the observance of Sunday, a praetico common to ali nations and religions. Εvery nation has Various categories offensis, some movabie like me course of the heav- enly bodies, phases of Whicli they celebrared e.y. feasis of the neW moon; solstices, etc. , Others stabis liko the anniversary of the foundation ofine empire, of the birth of the fovereim, of agreat victory Wοn over the ene es of a nation Ortribe, and their celebration implied, besides the onfering of sacrifices, a certain abstention hom serviis labor.

a Macrobius, Saturnalia, l. I, XV and Mi.

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fices

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os abstaining from servile labor as far as possinis; but there is no decisive proos for this assumption; on this mini, as On many Oiners, WΘ hmo no legislatius foris of ths nrst centuries.

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Α hundred years later me find tho custom rai sedis tho digniw of in institution and inculcated as adMy. Affer the time of Tertullian, Who mentionaths offering of the Eucharist on the Anniversam day of the martyrs, some mell-knois Passages in St. Cyprian 's Ietters potni to the celebration os insa Quo stiam Ioci nobis, ut fieri poterit, in exsultatione et gaudio eongregatis, Dominus praebebit, natalam martyris emad in oelebrare, tum in memoriam eorum qui oertamina pertul runt, tum ut posteri exercitati sint et parati.' Eccles. Smmen. martyris Poιν mi, epist. XVIII. Migne, P. f., t. V, 1043. 4 De corona, ΙΙΙ. Migne, P. Li. II, 7s. Di0jtigod by IOOOle

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o 'Saeruleia pro ala semper, ut meministis, offerimus, quoties martyrum passiones et diis anniVersaria commemoratione celebramus.' Epiat. XXXIV, 3. Μigne, P. L., t. IV, 323. . Denique et dies eorum quibus excedunt annotate, ut commemorationes eorum inter memorias martyrum celebrare posaim . . . TertiatuS . . . significet mihi diea quibus in carcere beati fratres nostri ad immortalitatem gloriosas mortia exitu transeunt, et celebrentur hie a nobis oblationea et sacrificia, ob commemorationes eorum, quae cito vobiscum, Domino protegente, eel rabimus.' Diat. XXXVII, ib. 328-329.

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seasis peculiar to eain diocese; via. the annisersaries of the martyrs, of dedications of churohes, of ordinations and burials of bishops, and feasis of

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iren, Theodosius, and Arcadius, enumerates amo

Saema quoquo Paschae dies qui septeno numero, Vel praee dunt vel sequuntur. Diea etiam Natalia atque Epiphaniarum Christi, et quo tempore commemoratio Apostolicae Pamionis totiua Christianitatis Magistras a cunctia jura celebratur. In eadem obsereatione numeramua et diis solla, quoa Dominima rito dixero majores. ' COL JMatinian., I. II, tit. XII, lex 7 . la nos thia

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integral part of the feast, so much so that in Asia Minor, Where the liturgical synaxis during Lent Was Only held on Saturday and Sundari ius

Councit of Laodicea transferred os celebration ofine anniversaries of the martyra to these Mys. The great seasis mere celebrated in inurin.

Tho Apostolio Constitutions mention Vaster, Ascension Day, Pentecost, Christmas, UPiPhany, and the fissis of the Apostlas and of St. Stephenand say that Christians spend these days in taurinto receiso religious instruction. It Was at inurin also, on the anniversaries of tho

martyrs and On great sensis, that ins Minops ad-drossed thoir homilies and intechelio instructionato the γοωe. Ths Obtiyation of Assistino at Mass. hat Wasine preesse nature of this obligation in os early urchi To ans er this question is very dissi- eult ; ths extant documents do not Duch on ins

ε Quod non oporteat in Quadragesima natalitia celebrari, aedeorum saneta eommemoratio in diebus sabbatorum et dominicorum fieri eonveniati' ono. Laodioen. ia ut 38ΙΤ , e. li. Mania,