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The Mass of the early Christians

Aquilina, Mike. (Author).

Item details

ISBN: 9781592763207
ISBN: 1592763200
Physical Description: print
255 pages ; 21 cm
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Huntington, Ind. : Our Sunday Visitor, ©2007.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-250) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Foreword / Joseph Linck -- Introduction / Scott Hahn -- Part I. How the Mass began. 1. The breaking of the bread and the prayers -- 2. The altar of Israel -- 3. All things made new -- 4. More precious than gold -- 5. Word and bread -- Part II. The testimony of witnesses. 6. The New Testament -- 7. The Didache -- 8. St. Clement of Rome -- 9. St. Ignatius of Antioch -- 10. Pliny the Younger -- 11. St. Justin Martyr -- 12. St. Irenaeus of Lyons -- 13. St. Hippolytus of Rome -- 14. The Didascalia -- 15. St. Albercius and Pectorius -- 16. Apocryphal and heretical texts -- 17. Pagan rumors -- 18. St. Clement of Alexandria -- 19. Origen of Alexandria -- 20. St. Dionysius the Great -- 21. Tertullian of Carthage -- 22. St. Cyprian of Carthage -- 23. St. Cornelius of Rome -- 24. St. Firmilian of Caesarea -- 25. The Liturgy of Addai and Mari -- 26. Eusebius of Caesarea -- 27. The Anaphora of St. Mark -- 28. Council of Nicea -- 29. St. Sarapion of Thmuis -- 30. The Liturgy of St. James -- 31. St. Cyril of Jerusalem -- Part III. The Mass of the early Christians. 32. Bread of heaven in Jesus Christ: an imaginative venture.