Monday Mornings

Okay, so it's no longer morning, but I can at least reflect back on it.

For many, today is the start of the work week, after having only just survived or are successfully refreshed from the weekend. More and more calendars assign Monday as the first day of the week, rather than the traditional Sunday. I use Google Calendar to do my personal scheduling, and it allows the option for the week to start with Monday, Sunday or even Saturday! As such, the traditional first day of the week has become a bit more flexible.

It's interesting, because in its infancy, early Christians would worship on Sunday, being the first day of the week. However, Sundays were much like Mondays, in that the work week started on Sunday. In other words, Christians would go to worship services to celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus early in the morning, and then everbody would head off to work. It would only be later when Sundays became the "day of rest" in Christian circles, so much so, that it ended up being enforced when Christianity became the dominant religion.

Yet we now live in a non-Christian, or more appropriately a post-Christian society. I wonder if to get a sense of what those early Christians may have experienced to gather together for worship early Monday morning.

The irony is, all I can think of now is Garfield.