Marie,<br><br>Here are a few snippits from "The Dictionary of the Presbyterian and Reformed Tradition in America" which might help you.<br><br>" One futher example of Reformed Spirituality and application of the regulative principle was sabbath observance. Presbyterians and Reformed have been rigourous in observing the fourth commandment ..........<br><br> The practise of sabbath observance also meant abolition of the Church calander. Whereas roman catholics instituted a series of holy days throughout the Church year modeled on the life of Christ or general Christian teaching. the Reformed objected that after the ressurection of Christ the only day that Scripture commanded to be a different or sanctified day was the Lords Day, when believers celebrated Christs triumph over sin and death in the resurrection. Thus, Presbyterians and Reformed in their desire to follow Scripture carefully have generally marked the Christian life by observing the weekly sabbath and by refusing to require the human practice of setting appart the holy days of the Church year.<br><br> .......... Hence, the word Reformed itself has always been shorthand for the phrase that the Church must "Always be reforming itself according to the Word of God." If a practice inheritted from roman catholicism could not be justified according to biblical teaching, then it had to be abandoned."<br><br><br>Christmas , Easter, Lent, Good Friday, Ash Wednesday , Whit Sunday etc,etc ,etc are all Popery Marie. <br>There is NOTHING reformed about them. <br><br>Always reforming or always deforming [img]http://www.the-highway.com/w3timages/icons/shrug.gif" alt="shrug" title="shrug[/img]
