The Celebration of the Eucharist: The Origin of the Rite and the Development of Its InterpretationLiturgical Press, 1999 - 351 pages Eucharistic liturgy has differed through the centuries and in different Churches. Because of these differences, it is essential that eucharistic liturgy be studied from ahistorical perspective. In The Celebration of the Eucharist, Enrico Mazza offers a thorough account of the theology of the Eucharist and presents a historical analysis of the origin and variety of eucharistic liturgies and their development in the Church. Beginning with the Last Supper, Father Mazza weaves his way through interpretations elaborated by the Fathers of the Church and medieval writers to provide the rich tapestry of concepts and categories adopted by Vatican Council II. Complete with an appendix including Jewish texts and early Eucharistic Prayers, abbreviations, bibliography, and notes, The Celebration of the Eucharist is a comprehensive source for those who have an interest in the theology of the Eucharist in the course of history. Chapters are Old Testament Sacrifices and Ritual Meal," "The Origin of the Christian Eucharist," "From the Jewish Liturgy to the Christian Eucharist," "Primitive Anaphoras: From the Didache to the Mystical Eucharist," "Primitive Anaphoras: Developments of the Eucharistic Liturgy," "Thematic Developments in the Eucharistic Liturgy," "The Early Patristic Period," "Tertullian and Cyprian," "The Fourth Century," "The Early Middle Ages," "The Scholastic High Middle Ages," "The Eucharist and the Relics of the Saints," "The Reformation and the Council of Trent," "The Liturgical Reform of Vatican Council II," "The Implementation of the Liturgical Reform," "The Parts of the Eucharistic Prayer," and "The Last Supper and the Church's Eucharist." Enrico Mazza is professor of liturgical history at the Universit Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan. He is the author of Mystagogy: A Theology of Liturgy in the Patristic Ages, Eucharistic Prayers of the Roman Rite, and The Origins of the Eucharistic Prayer published by The Liturgical Press. " |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 69
... explanation of the 9 Because of the methodological approach adopted , only a part of the Church's eucharistic tradition entered these theological treatises , the deplorable conse- quence being a general impoverishment both of the ...
... explanation of the Church's eucharistic doctrine18 and also al- lows the patristic data on mystery , as developed by Casel , to be in co- herent continuity with the biblical data that have been brought out in some recent studies.19 It ...
... explaining the source of the sacrificial character of the Christian Eucharist , authors have often had recourse to the sacrificial character of the prayer of thanksgiving that accompanied the Old Testament rites and that accompanies the ...
... explanation ) became the common designation of the words accompanying the cup and the bread , since the purpose of these words is to explain the nature and function of the bread and wine of the Last Supper . From a literary point of ...
... explained , the prayer of thanksgiving , the Birkat ha - Mazon , is said by Christ while holding the cup that ends the rite . Luke does not explicitly say that the final cup was accompanied by a prayer of thanksgiving ; the fact is ...