As a newly married couple, we are trying to create new traditions to carry out in our family. We want to center our lives around Christ, and His redeeming power. These are the tradition we have started, or want to start that help to keep Christ in the forefront of our minds. We are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, or as many know us as Mormons. We beleive in God the Eternal Father, and in his Son Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Ghost.

Monday, April 11, 2011

Sabbath Day Holy

"And he commanded them that they should observe the Sabbath day , adn keep it holy, and also every day they should give thanks to the Lord their God." Mosiah 18:23


Sunday is a special day that we reserve for the worship of our Lord. On Sundays we go to our church meetings, and we are able to partake of the sacrament.



Sacrament meeting is where we partake of bread and water in rememberence of Christ’s atoning sacrifice. The broken bread represents his broken flesh; the water represents the blood that he shed to atone for our sins (1 Cor. 11:23–25; D&C 27:2). When worthy Church members take the sacrament, they promise to take upon them the name of Christ, to always remember him, and to keep his commandments. Through this ordinance, Church members renew their baptismal covenants.(lds.org)


On Sundays lately we go to church, and when we come home we take off our Sunday clothes, get into sweats and either watch a movie or do homework. It seems that we are not really keep the Sabbath Day as holy as we could. In the Jewish religion the Sabbath is a very sacred day of worship. One of the biggest part of their Shabbat is the meal they partake, and the hymns and lessons they learn. There is also a tradition of giving your children father's blessings.
I feel that they show a very good example of how to keep the Sabbath day Holy.

How we celebrate

- We have begun to have family dinners on Sunday. Getting together to share time with family is a wonderful way to keep the spirit in the home.
- We are going to try to restrict the number of football, and basketball games that are viewed.
- Every sunday we will write about the lessons we learned during our church services.
- We are going to try to get all homework done before Sunday so that it truley will be a day of rest.
- Nature is very calming to us, we are going to try to enjoy nature each sunday, and we have contemplated hiking the Y and having a scripture study at the top of it.


Sunday needs to become a day of worship, a day of rest, a day that is out of the normal routine.


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