In the Hebrew Bible and Jewish tradition alike, there is a major holiday every week. Or, to be more precise, what we call the “week” is a byproduct of the major holiday that occurs without exception after every six days. That holiday, the Sabbath, has many meanings and interpretations in Scripture and Jewish tradition alike, and Christian tradition, for its part, evidences a range of attitudes towards it and ways of observing it. In recent decades, this ancient and (to many) ostensibly obsolete institution has garnered new attention and new appreciation, in part inspired by an apostolic letter of Pope St. John Paul II.

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Co-sponsored by Harvard Christian Alumni Society, the St. Benedict Institute at Hope College, Harvard Cru, St. Peter's Parish (Cambridge), and the Harvard Office of the President/Initiative on Interfaith Engagement