. . . There was a distinct break between the Old Testament requirements . . . dealing with the Sabbath worship. . . They [Rome] wanted to show that Christianity [their brainchild] was distinct from Judaism. . .
The other thing that we should remember, too, is that our calendar that we follow, including Seventh-day Adventists, is not only a calendar that was devised by the Catholic Church, but also it is a calendar that’s based upon the solar year, not the lunar year. The Jewish calendar that was observed in the time of Christ follows a lunar [astro-luni-solar] calendar . . .
So the great irony is that even the Seventh-day Adventists themselves are not worshiping on exactly the same Sabbath day as the Jews of the time of Christ, because it is several days off . . . Patrick Madrid, Catholic Priest, EWTN, Global Catholic Radio Network, Jan 5, 2006
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