What are the Holy Days for Christianity?

Answer 1

Roman Catholic AnswerThe Church usually refers to them as Holy Days of Obligation, in other words a Holy Day when you must attend Mass and abstain from unnecessary labor. These include all Sundays of the year, and Jan 1, Mary, Mother of God; Jan 6, the Epiphany; Mar 19, St. Joseph; The Ascension (forty days after Easter), Holy Body and Blood of Christ, June 29, Sts. Peter and Paul; Aug 15 Assumption; Nov 1, All Saints; Dec 8, Immaculate Conception; and Dec 25, Christmas. Not all of these are observed in every country. Some countries may request a dispensation. The United States does not observe St. Joseph, Corpus Christ (the Holy Body and Blood of Christ), Sts. Peter and Paul as Holy Days. Other days, like The Epiphany, the Ascension are moved to the nearest Saturday. Some days, such as All Saints will not be Holy Days OF OBLIGATION if they fall on a Monday or a Saturday.

Answer 2

The holiest day is Easter Day or Easter Sunday - the day when Christians celebrate Christ's resurrection. The actual date of Easter varies each year, based on a complex formula from the lunar calendar.

Good Friday is also holy - the day commemorating His crucifixion.

Christmas Day is the day when Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus (although it is almost certain he wasn't actually born on that day - it is just a day set aside for its celebration).

Ascension Day is the day we remember Christ's ascension into heaven.

Pentecost is the day of the coming of the Holy Spirit

Maundy Thursday (the day before Good Friday) is the day when Christ instituted the Holy Communion (mass, eucharist, 'Lord's Supper') and the night when he was arrested.

Almost all Christian churches commemorate these days. However. the Catholic church commemorates many other holy days (some of them called 'days of obligation' where attendance at mass is expected). These include the annunciation of the Virgin Mary, the festival of Corpus Christi and many saints' days.

The holiest day of the week for most Christians is Sunday in commemoration of Christ's Resurrection. Some denominations observe Saturday in accordance with the Jewish Sabbath Day, instituted by God at the end of the Creation week.

Advisedly:

They "should be" the ones listed in the Bible in Leviticus 23... but the false religions of this world call them "Jewish" holy days, and shun them.

The Bible, however, calls them: "...the feasts of the Lord..."... whom the Bible reveals to be "Jesus Christ" the Almighty Creator God of the Old Testament [John 1:3] and "Saviour" of the New.

Of these commanded Holy Days of the Lord, Jesus Christ, the Bible says:

"...the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the Lord... even THESE are My feasts..." (Lev.23:1-2).

Jesus kept these when He walked the earth as a man... as did His disciples and all of Judaea.

Of course, the vast majority of the modern professing Christian world is ignorant of the fact that every one of these "feasts of the Lord" are "Christ-centered" -- beginning with the Passover [I Cor.5:7].

But an apostate "Christianity" asserted itself in the world as the centuries passed, which adopted the hodge-podge of festivals, customs and traditions of the pagan gods of the Gentiles that are observed today... and adapted to them by slapping Christ's name on them.

The "most important" of modern professing Christianity's 'holidays': with all the trappings and symbols of the Babylonian fertility goddess, Ishtar [pronounced Easter], they didn't even bother changing the name.

None of the holidays observed by modern professing Christianity is "commanded" by God in the Bible to be kept... except for "Pentecost" [which is listed in Leviticus 23].

They liked this one, because it always falls on the "first day of the week" [we call it "Sunday" today]... the day MPC likes to think is the new weekly Sabbath day [the seventh-day Sabbath is one of the Ten Commandments, that the Bible never abrogated].

The problem with Pentecost, however, is that it needs to be counted every year. Seven weekly "Sabbath days" [our Saturday] are counted from the one that falls during the seven day observance of "Passover."

Pentecost always falls after the seventh counted Sabbath, Saturday, on the first day of the week, Sunday. [see Lev.23:15-16]

If the "New Testament Sabbath" had been changed to "Sunday" as MPC teaches... the New Testament "Pentecost" should be falling on "Monday" -- the day after the seventh counted "Sunday Sabbath."

But, since modern professing Christianity considers all of God's biblically commanded Holy Day feasts of Leviticus 23 in the Old Testament "nailed to the cross" for Christians... it's a curiosity how it managed to hang onto, count and keep Pentecost and not the rest.

At any rate... the "feasts of the Lord, Jesus Christ," should be the holy days for Christians. But modern professing Christianity observes the ones devised by men listed at the top, instead.