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No. The third commandment (of the Ten Commandments) is:

Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work; but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; in it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your manservant, or your maidservant, or your cattle, or the sojourner who is within your gates; for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

And there are Five Commandments of the Church of which the first is:

You shall attend Mass on Sundays and on holy days of obligation and rest from servile labor.

We understand that the Church, to celebrate the Lord's resurrection changed the Sabbath day of the Old Testament from Saturday to Sunday, and so we obey the Lord's command in this way.

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Conformity or peer pressure is always a reason to attend regularly scheduled community meetings religious and otherwise. In the case of churches the members of the community will often stop people who miss a service to quiz them on the reasons for their absence. This may appear to be concern but is actually a "We're watching!" message.

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