This day is holy to the Lord your God ... do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord must be your strength! ... And there was very great rejoicing.
Monsignor Pope Ping!
Galatians 4:10-11
10 You observe days and months and seasons and years.
11 I fear for you, that perhaps I have labored over you in vain.
Romans 14:5
5 One person regards one day above another, another regards every day alike. Each person must be fully convinced in his own mind.
Poor A-Pope!
He goes back to the Hebrew Scriptures to try to find justification for feast days.
His problem is that the Israelites were commanded to celebrate certain days. It was required under their covenant.
Christians are under a different covenant and their are no required feast days.
If someone wants to regard one day as more important than another, no problem. Believers in Christ have that freedom.
The error is making feast days a requirement, which is false and unbiblical.
AMEN.
That is simply MORE of the beauty of our faith.
We have the wonderful privilege of attending Mass every single day (which I do except on Saturdays) when the priest celebrates Mass.
Feast days are simply a DOUBLE celebration!
God has blessed me so much and I humbly thank Him for His many blessings.
It is natural for human beings to order their lives around important dates like birthday and anniversaries. Catholics just order our lives around anniversaries of great salvific events. One wonders what the objection could possibly be.