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D. Todd Christofferson
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April 2025
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Saturday Evening Session
that thou mayest more fully keep thyself unspotted from the world, thou shalt go to the house of prayer and offer up thy sacraments upon my holy day.”
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David A. Bednar
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April 2024
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Saturday Afternoon Session
A central feature of our Sabbath worship is to “go to the house of prayer and offer up [our] sacraments upon [the Lord’s] holy day.” The “house[s] of prayer” in which we gather on the Sabbath are meetinghouses and other approved facilities—holy places of reverence, worship, and learning.
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Dale G. Renlund
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April 2024
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Sunday Morning Session
The next element of the doctrine of Christ is baptism, which includes the baptism of water and, through confirmation, the baptism of the Holy Ghost.
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Dale G. Renlund
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October 2022
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Saturday Morning Session
A third element of the framework is that personal revelation will be in harmony with the commandments of God and the covenants we have made with Him.
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Reyna I. Aburto
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April 2022
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Saturday Morning Session
From the beginning, God has sought to gather and organize His children “to bring to pass [our] immortality and eternal life.” With that purpose in mind, He has instructed us to build places of worship where we receive knowledge and the ordinances of salvation and exaltation; make and keep covenants that bind us to Jesus Christ; are endowed with “the power of godliness”; and gather together often to remember Jesus and strengthen each other in Him.
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Adeyinka A. Ojediran
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April 2022
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Sunday Afternoon Session
that thou mayest more fully keep thyself unspotted from the world, thou shalt go to the house of prayer and offer up thy sacraments upon my holy day”
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Dallin H. Oaks
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October 2021
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Saturday Morning Session
One of those laws is to worship in church each Sabbath day.
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D. Todd Christofferson
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April 2021
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Sunday Afternoon Session
There is also a weekly gathering of the covenant people to the house of prayer on the Lord’s day, that we may “more fully keep [ourselves] unspotted from the world.” It is a gathering to partake of sacramental bread and water in remembrance of the Atonement of Jesus Christ and a time “to fast and to pray, and to speak one with another concerning the welfare of [our] souls.” As a teenager, I was the only member of the Church in my high school class.
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Jeffrey R. Holland
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April 2019
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Saturday Afternoon Session
My beloved brothers and sisters, with the exciting new emphasis on increased gospel learning in the home, it is crucial for us to remember that we are still commanded to “go to the house of prayer and offer up thy sacraments upon my holy day.” In addition to making time for more home-centered gospel instruction, our modified Sunday service is also to reduce the complexity of the meeting schedule in a way that properly emphasizes the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper as the sacred, acknowledged f...
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David A. Bednar
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October 2017
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Sunday Morning Session
“For verily this is a day appointed unto you to rest from your labors, and to pay thy devotions unto the Most High.”
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Carol F. McConkie
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April 2017
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General Women’s Session
If we will keep the associated covenants, the sacred priesthood ordinances will change us, sanctify us, and prepare us to enter the presence of the Lord.
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Russell M. Nelson
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April 2017
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Saturday Morning Session
We also increase the Savior’s power in our lives when we make sacred covenants and keep those covenants with precision.
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Henry B. Eyring
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October 2016
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Sunday Morning Session
For Latter-day Saints, the Sabbath is such a moment, actually a day, of gratitude and love.
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David A. Bednar
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April 2016
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Saturday Afternoon Session
The sacrament is the third ordinance necessary to obtain access to the power of godliness.
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M. Russell Ballard
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October 2015
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Saturday Morning Session
Another important doctrine that we should cling to is to observe the Sabbath day.
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Randall K. Bennett
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October 2015
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General Priesthood Session
If, in remembering Him each Sabbath, we turn our hearts to the Savior through these two important signposts, our efforts are again more than matched by the Lord by His promised blessings.
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D. Todd Christofferson
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October 2015
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Sunday Afternoon Session
The wards and branches of the Church offer a weekly gathering of respite and renewal, a time and place to leave the world behind—the Sabbath.
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Russell M. Nelson
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April 2015
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Sunday Afternoon Session
“And inasmuch as ye do these things with thanksgiving, with cheerful hearts and countenances, … the fulness of the earth is yours.”
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James J. Hamula
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October 2014
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Sunday Morning Session
Significantly, when Jesus visited His disciples in the Americas, He also instituted the sacrament among them.
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L. Tom Perry
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April 2011
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Saturday Morning Session
“And on this day thou shalt do none other thing.”
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Dallin H. Oaks
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October 2008
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Saturday Morning Session
“For verily this is a day appointed unto you to rest from your labors, and to pay thy devotions unto the Most High” (D&C 59:9–10).
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Dallin H. Oaks
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April 2008
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Saturday Afternoon Session
A personal testimony is fundamental to our faith.
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Spencer J. Condie
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October 2007
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Saturday Morning Session
Becoming unspotted from the world is a promise to those who keep the Sabbath holy (see D&C 59:9; Exodus 31:13).
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David A. Bednar
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April 2006
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Saturday Afternoon Session
that thou mayest more fully keep thyself unspotted from the world, thou shalt go to the house of prayer and offer up thy sacraments upon my holy day”
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L. Tom Perry
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April 2006
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Saturday Afternoon Session
After we returned to the resort, there was an obvious difference in the Sabbath-day activities compared to that of the weekdays.
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James E. Faust
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April 2005
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Sunday Morning Session
Our chapels are dedicated to the Lord as holy places.
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James E. Faust
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April 2004
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Sunday Morning Session
One message missed by so many in our time is the word of the Lord commanding us to “keep [ourselves] unspotted from the world.” We are told that many are called “but few are chosen,” and the reason is that “their hearts are set so much upon the things of this world.”
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Dallin H. Oaks
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October 2003
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Saturday Afternoon Session
Weekly attendance at church is another example of a commandment contrary to popular traditions.
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Dallin H. Oaks
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April 2002
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Saturday Afternoon Session
Attendance at church each week provides the opportunity to partake of the sacrament, as the Lord has commanded us (see D&C 59:9).
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Keith B. McMullin
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April 2001
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Sunday Morning Session
Worldly lusts lose their allure as the holy sacrament assumes its proper place in our lives.
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H. David Burton
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October 1998
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Saturday Morning Session
“For verily this is a day appointed unto you to rest from your labors, and to pay thy devotions unto the Most High” (D&C 59:9–10).
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Dallin H. Oaks
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October 1996
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Sunday Morning Session
“That thou mayest more fully keep thyself unspotted from the world, thou shalt go to the house of prayer and offer up thy sacraments upon my holy day”
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Earl C. Tingey
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April 1996
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Saturday Morning
“And on this day thou shalt do none other thing, only let thy food be prepared with singleness of heart that thy fasting may be perfect, or, in other words, that thy joy may be full.”
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Lynn A. Mickelsen
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October 1995
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Sunday Afternoon Session
Thou shalt honor the Sabbath day to keep it holy.
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Hans B. Ringger
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October 1995
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Sunday Afternoon Session
“That thou mayest more fully keep thyself unspotted from the world, thou shalt go to the house of prayer and offer up thy sacraments upon my holy day”
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James E. Faust
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October 1991
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Saturday Afternoon Session
“And on this day thou shalt do none other thing, only let thy food be prepared with singleness of heart that thy fasting may be perfect, or, in other words, that thy joy may be full” (D&C 59:9–13).
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W. Mack Lawrence
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April 1991
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Saturday Afternoon Session
“And on this day thou shalt do none other thing, only let thy food be prepared with singleness of heart that thy fasting may be perfect, or, in other words, that thy joy may be full” (D&C 59:9–13).
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Dean L. Larsen
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October 1989
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Sunday Morning Session
“That thou mayest more fully keep thyself unspotted from the world, thou shalt go to the house of prayer and offer up thy sacraments upon my holy day.”
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Russell M. Nelson
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October 1988
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Saturday Morning Session
Reconciliation requires faith, repentance, and baptism.
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James E. Faust
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October 1986
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Saturday Morning Session
The Lord’s commandment about the Sabbath day has not been altered, nor has the Church’s affirmation of the commandment to observe the Sabbath day.
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Dallin H. Oaks
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April 1985
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Sunday Afternoon Session
Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are commanded to partake of the sacrament each week.
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L. Tom Perry
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October 1984
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Saturday Morning Session
“And on this day thou shalt do none other thing, only let thy food be prepared with singleness of heart that thy fasting may be perfect, or, in other words, that thy joy may be full.” (D&C 59:9–13.)
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Dean L. Larsen
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April 1983
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Priesthood Session
One of the reasons I feel such a deep concern for you young men is that we see some evidences today of an inclination among our young people to follow the trends of the world.
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Gordon B. Hinckley
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October 1982
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Priesthood Session
“Remember that on this, the Lord’s day, thou shall offer thine oblations and thy sacraments unto the Most High, confessing thy sins unto thy brethren, and before the Lord.” (D&C 59:9, 12.)
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Angel Abrea
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October 1981
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Saturday Afternoon Session
Have we thought about the tremendous spiritual deterioration that results from not keeping the Sabbath day holy?
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Bruce R. McConkie
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October 1981
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Sunday Morning Session
If being a Christian means believing in Christ and accepting him as the Son of God in the full and complete sense; if it means having the true gospel in its everlasting fulness; if it means believing what Peter and Paul believed and finding fellowship in the same Church to which they belonged; if it means feeding the hungry, and clothing the naked, and loving our fellowmen, and keeping ourselves unspotted from the world (see D&C 59:9)—where else shall we find true Christians except among the ...
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Marion G. Romney
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April 1981
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Priesthood Session
“That thou mayest more fully keep thyself unspotted from the world, thou shalt go to the house of prayer and offer up thy sacraments upon my holy day.”
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Spencer W. Kimball
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October 1979
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Saturday Morning Session
“For verily this is a day appointed unto you to rest from your labors, and to pay thy devotions unto the Most High” (D&C 59:9–10).
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Howard W. Hunter
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April 1977
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Saturday Afternoon Session
that thou mayest more fully keep thyself unspotted from the world, thou shalt go to the house of prayer and offer up thy sacraments upon my holy day.”
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N. Eldon Tanner
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April 1977
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Priesthood Session
that thou mayest more fully keep thyself unspotted from the world, thou shalt go to the house of prayer and offer up thy sacraments upon my holy day.”
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Joseph Anderson
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October 1976
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Sunday Morning Session
“And on this day thou shalt do none other thing, only let thy food be prepared with singleness of heart that thy fasting may be perfect, or, in other words, that thy joy may be full.” (D&C 59:9–13.)
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William H. Bennett
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October 1975
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Saturday Morning Session
The law of the Sabbath was given to God’s people throughout their generations for a perpetual covenant as set forth in Exodus (see Ex.
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Marion G. Romney
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October 1975
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Priesthood Session
“That thou mayest more fully keep thyself unspotted from the world, thou shalt go to the house of prayer and offer up thy sacraments upon my holy day.”
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Mark E. Petersen
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April 1975
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Saturday Morning Session
mayest more fully keep thyself unspotted from the world, thou shalt go to the house of prayer and offer up thy sacraments upon my holy day.”
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Marion G. Romney
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April 1974
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Priesthood Session
“And on this day thou shalt do none other thing, only let thy food be prepared with singleness of heart that thy fasting may be perfect, or, in other words, that thy joy may be full.” (D&C 59:9–10, 12–13.)
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N. Eldon Tanner
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October 1973
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Priesthood Session
“For verily this is a day appointed unto you to rest from your labors, and to pay thy devotions unto the Most High.” (D&C 59:9–10.)
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Mark E. Petersen
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October 1973
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Sunday Morning Session
that thou mayest more fully keep thyself unspotted from the world, thou shalt go to the house of prayer and offer up thy sacraments upon my holy day.”
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Henry D. Taylor
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April 1973
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Saturday Morning Session
that thou mayest more fully keep thyself unspotted from the world, thou shalt go to the house of prayer and offer up thy sacraments upon my holy day.”
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