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. " |
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... nature of other actions , which could be performed only at the sanctuary , was reinforced . ? Readers may usefully consult also Deuteronomy 12 : 20-27 , which repeats , but in a more developed vocabulary , the two earlier passages on ...
... nature of the Church's Eucharist . Just as the Eucharistic Prayer is an imitation of the thanksgiving of- fered by Jesus in the upper room , so too the constitutive elements used in our Eucharist , namely , the bread and wine , will be ...
... nature and function of the bread and wine of the Last Supper . From a literary point of view , the words do indeed have an explanatory function and nothing more . From the viewpoint of western theol- ogy they have a further role , which ...
... place given to the typology of the Exodus : The liturgy celebrated by Moses serves as a type of the liturgy of the Therapeutae . 14 De vita contemplativa , 89 ( ET : 57 ) . sacred meal , and what was the nature of its 42 123.
... nature of its morning prayers ? What was the nature of all these observances to which the community of the Therapeutae was so strongly committed ? According to Philo's description , the Therapeutae employed the typological method in ...