Jewish Shabbat or Biblical Sabbath lasts from sunset on Friday to the fall of full darkness on Saturday, leading to a Friday–Saturday weekend in Israel. Sunday is the "Lord's Day" and the day of rest and worship. Based on my curiosity I did some research and learned this. God did not create weekends for work.”ĭuring the night the thoughts about “ why and for what weekends were born in the first place?” kept spinning in my mind. One of my colleague replied, “ no one is working this weekend.” I was glad to hear this and the words just came out, “ Thank God! At least people can enjoy their weekend.
Almost everything inside was looted aside from its bells.This Friday while wrapping up the work day I inquired with my colleagues, “ who was supposed to work this weekend?” Yes, for a few months now everyone in our team had to rotate and couple people worked over the weekends, despite working long hours during the weekdays. The centuries-old cathedral was renamed the Temple of Reason. Enlightenment philosophers’ busts and statues of the Liberty replaced religious statues, and seductively dressed women danced and sang songs extolling the revolution. After the cathedral was plundered, it became the stage for a packed public event in which a seductively dressed actress portraying the Goddess of Reason was worshiped atop a mountain. In November 1793, the cathedral became the site of the Festival of Reason, a revolutionary and anti-religious festival that both mocked Catholicism and suggested that French people should worship Enlightenment principles instead. That wasn’t the end of the cathedral’s revolutionary role. Twenty-one of the heads were only recovered in 1977, when workers found them behind a wall in an old Parisian mansion. They didn’t portray French kings, but no matter: The 500-year-old statues combined monarchy and religion, and they were brought to the cathedral’s square and decapitated. In fall 1793, the new government ordered workers to remove them. The cathedral’s west facade featured 28 statues that portrayed the biblical Kings of Judah. But revolutionary Parisians had had enough of its royal resonance.
Notre-Dame de Paris had long been a symbol of the monarchy, too-a place where state holidays, and kings, were celebrated. Henry VI of England was crowned king of France there in 1431. They embarked on a dechristianization campaign, confiscating Church property, trying to get all clergy to swear their loyalty to the new state, and removing the Church’s control over the birth, death and administrative records it had held for so long.ġ895 Englishman wins the first US Open golf tournament READ MORE: How a Scandal Over a Diamond Necklace Cost Marie Antoinette Her HeadĪs the monarchy toppled, then fell, a small group of radical revolutionaries who had been influenced by Enlightenment-era philosophies of freedom of religion and a reason-based society saw their chance to strip the Church of much of its authority. But a growing number of French people had tired of the Church’s almost inconceivable power. The vast majority of French people were Catholic, Catholicism was the state religion, and the Church owned vast swaths of property and collected heavy tithes from most people’s incomes without paying taxes of its own. Before a furious crowd stormed the Bastille in Paris in 1789, the Church wielded extraordinary power in France.