In addition to the reflection given today on the Third Sunday of Lent (2025), I have added a little extension onto the reflection.

This addition is not to cause controversy or to upset fellow members of the faithful, but rather to encourage them to sanctify their Sundays instead of doing it on Saturdays.

For us Christians, Sunday is the Lord’s Day. No other day of the week can claim this. Saturday was once a day of rest, it is still the seventh day of the week. However, since Christianity began, Sunday has become the new day in which we as Christians must sanctify in celebration and commemoration of Jesus’s resurrection. Sunday, NOT SATURDAY, is the day set apart for us to worship with the sacrifice of Calvary being extended throughout all time in the sacrifice of the Mass.

“Sunday is the day on which we all hold our common assembly, because it is the first day on which God, having wrought a change in the darkness and matter, made the world; and Jesus Christ our Saviour on the same day rose from the dead.” - First Apology of St. Justin Martyr (AD 155)

The Eastern Catholics and Eastern Orthodox hold their Sunday celebrations of Divine Liturgy on Sunday. The faithful that make up these communities are expected to worship on Sundays. If those in the Eastern Catholic rites and Eastern Orthodox jurisdictions don’t hold a Saturday Vigil/Anticipatory Liturgy to substitute the Sunday Divine Liturgy, then the Latin Rite has no excuse for a Saturday Virgil/Anticipatory Mass.

Let Saturday be Saturday, and Sunday alone be the Lord’s Day!

God Love You!