Kept in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the first denomination in the United States founded by Black people. Sunday is kept for public worship, and the General Rules bind members to attend upon the ordinances of God.
Kept in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. Sunday is kept for public worship, and the General Rules bind members to attend upon the ordinances of God.
Kept across the provinces of the Anglican Communion. Sunday is kept as the Lord's Day with the duty of public worship, without the sabbatarian rigour the Reformed churches attached to it.
Sunday is kept as the Lord's Day with the duty of public worship, without the sabbatarian rigour the Reformed churches attached to it.
Kept in the Armenian Apostolic Church. Sunday is kept as the day of the Resurrection. The Ethiopian and Eritrean churches additionally keep Saturday, which sets them apart from the rest of Christianity.
Sunday is kept for worship as the Lord's Day, without a sabbatarian theory of it.
The Sabbath is kept strictly, and its observance was the community's central marker through centuries of isolation.
Kept in Breslov Hasidism. Orthodox observance keeps the full thirty-nine categories of forbidden work, so no writing, cooking, carrying outside an eruv, or use of electricity, with timers set beforehand, and the day given to synagogue, meals, study and rest.
The Christian Sabbath is kept with a rigour found nowhere else in Christianity: the whole day set apart, ordinary works, words and thoughts about worldly employments and recreations laid aside. This is the plainest Reformed distinctive in practice.
Kept in Chabad-Lubavitch. Orthodox observance keeps the full thirty-nine categories of forbidden work, so no writing, cooking, carrying outside an eruv, or use of electricity, with timers set beforehand, and the day given to synagogue, meals, study and rest.
Kept in the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church. Sunday is kept for public worship, and the General Rules bind members to attend upon the ordinances of God.
Kept in the Church of Cyprus, autocephalous since the Council of Ephesus in 431. Sunday is kept as the day of the Resurrection and the day of the Divine Liturgy, and Saturday retains a liturgical character of its own that the West largely lost.
Kept in the Church of England, the province from which the Prayer Book tradition comes. Sunday is kept as the Lord's Day with the duty of public worship, without the sabbatarian rigour the Reformed churches attached to it.
Kept in the Church of Greece. Sunday is kept as the day of the Resurrection and the day of the Divine Liturgy, and Saturday retains a liturgical character of its own that the West largely lost.
Kept in the Church of Ireland. Sunday is kept as the Lord's Day with the duty of public worship, without the sabbatarian rigour the Reformed churches attached to it.
Kept in the Church of Scotland, the established Presbyterian church of that country. The Christian Sabbath is kept with a rigour found nowhere else in Christianity: the whole day set apart, ordinary works, words and thoughts about worldly employments and recreations laid aside. This is the plainest Reformed distinctive in practice.
Kept in the Church of Sweden, which retained the historic episcopate through the Reformation as few Lutheran churches did. Sunday is kept for the sake of good order and of hearing the word, and the Augsburg Confession denies that the observance rests on divine law.
Kept in the Church of the Nazarene, which stands in the Wesleyan holiness line. Sunday is kept for public worship, and the General Rules bind members to attend upon the ordinances of God.
Conservative Judaism holds Sabbath observance binding while its law committee has permitted driving to synagogue where no congregation is within walking distance, and the use of electricity, rulings the Orthodox reject.
Kept in the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria. Sunday is kept as the day of the Resurrection. The Ethiopian and Eritrean churches additionally keep Saturday, which sets them apart from the rest of Christianity.
Kept in the Dutch Reformed tradition, which holds the Heidelberg Catechism among its confessional standards. The Christian Sabbath is kept with a rigour found nowhere else in Christianity: the whole day set apart, ordinary works, words and thoughts about worldly employments and recreations laid aside. This is the plainest Reformed distinctive in practice.
Sunday is kept as the day of the Resurrection and the day of the Divine Liturgy, and Saturday retains a liturgical character of its own that the West largely lost.
Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. Sunday is kept as the day of the Resurrection and the day of the Divine Liturgy, and Saturday retains a liturgical character of its own that the West largely lost.
Kept in the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church. Sunday is kept as the day of the Resurrection. The Ethiopian and Eritrean churches additionally keep Saturday, which sets them apart from the rest of Christianity.
Kept in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. Sunday is kept as the day of the Resurrection. The Ethiopian and Eritrean churches additionally keep Saturday, which sets them apart from the rest of Christianity.
Kept in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Sunday is kept for the sake of good order and of hearing the word, and the Augsburg Confession denies that the observance rests on divine law.
Kept in the Free Methodist Church. Sunday is kept for public worship, and the General Rules bind members to attend upon the ordinances of God.
Kept in the Georgian Orthodox Church, which has used its own language and script in worship since the fifth century. Sunday is kept as the day of the Resurrection and the day of the Divine Liturgy, and Saturday retains a liturgical character of its own that the West largely lost.
Kept in the Global Methodist Church, formed in 2022. Sunday is kept for public worship, and the General Rules bind members to attend upon the ordinances of God.
Kept in the Greek Orthodox churches. Sunday is kept as the day of the Resurrection and the day of the Divine Liturgy, and Saturday retains a liturgical character of its own that the West largely lost.
Haredi and Hasidic households keep the thirty-nine categories at their strictest and add the customs of the court, a tish at the rebbe's table and a third meal at dusk with singing, alongside a deliberate separation from the surrounding week.
Kept in Hasidic Judaism. Orthodox observance keeps the full thirty-nine categories of forbidden work, so no writing, cooking, carrying outside an eruv, or use of electricity, with timers set beforehand, and the day given to synagogue, meals, study and rest.
The Sabbath is marked as a cultural and family institution.
Karaites read the prohibition on kindling fire by the plain sense of the text, so the classical position allows no light or heat left burning through the Sabbath at all, and the day is reckoned by their own observational calendar.
Sunday is kept for the sake of good order and of hearing the word, and the Augsburg Confession denies that the observance rests on divine law.
Sunday is kept for public worship, and the General Rules bind members to attend upon the ordinances of God.
Kept in Modern Orthodox Judaism, alongside full engagement with secular study and with the state. Orthodox observance keeps the full thirty-nine categories of forbidden work, so no writing, cooking, carrying outside an eruv, or use of electricity, with timers set beforehand, and the day given to synagogue, meals, study and rest.
Kept in the National Baptist Convention of America International. Sunday is kept for worship as the Lord's Day, without a sabbatarian theory of it.
Sunday is kept as the day of the Resurrection. The Ethiopian and Eritrean churches additionally keep Saturday, which sets them apart from the rest of Christianity.
Orthodox observance keeps the full thirty-nine categories of forbidden work, so no writing, cooking, carrying outside an eruv, or use of electricity, with timers set beforehand, and the day given to synagogue, meals, study and rest.
The Sabbath is kept from the beginning to the end of the day, and Scottish practice made it the defining mark of the tradition in public life.
Kept in the Progressive National Baptist Convention. Sunday is kept for worship as the Lord's Day, without a sabbatarian theory of it.
The Sabbath is kept as the central institution of Jewish civilisation, observed by choice rather than by obligation.
The Sabbath is kept as a day of worship and rest, chosen rather than commanded, and the late Friday evening service was this movement's creation.
The obligation is transferred to Sunday, the Lord's Day, on which the faithful are bound to attend Mass and to refrain from work that would hinder the worship owed to God.
Kept in the Romanian Orthodox Church, the one Orthodox church of the Byzantine tradition whose language is Romance. Sunday is kept as the day of the Resurrection and the day of the Divine Liturgy, and Saturday retains a liturgical character of its own that the West largely lost.
Kept in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Slavonic recension of the Byzantine books. Sunday is kept as the day of the Resurrection and the day of the Divine Liturgy, and Saturday retains a liturgical character of its own that the West largely lost.
Kept in the Serbian Orthodox Church. Sunday is kept as the day of the Resurrection and the day of the Divine Liturgy, and Saturday retains a liturgical character of its own that the West largely lost.
Adventists keep Saturday sunset to sunset rather than Sunday, holding the change of day to be a human innovation; the hours go to worship, family and service, and members commonly decline Saturday work and schooling.
Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line. Sunday is kept as the Lord's Day with the duty of public worship, without the sabbatarian rigour the Reformed churches attached to it.
Kept in the United Methodist Church. Sunday is kept for public worship, and the General Rules bind members to attend upon the ordinances of God.
Kept in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Sunday is kept as the day of the Resurrection and the day of the Divine Liturgy, and Saturday retains a liturgical character of its own that the West largely lost.
Kept in the Wesleyan Church. Sunday is kept for public worship, and the General Rules bind members to attend upon the ordinances of God.