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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... relationships between the New Testament liturgy and the Old Testament rites , by showing how , in what ritual forms and structures , and by what paths and transformations , the Christian liturgy has descended from the Jewish . The ...
... relationship with God . For this kind of interpretation of sacred and profane see J.-P. Audet , " Le sacré et le profane . Leur situation en christianisme , " NRT 79 ( 1957 ) 33-61 . In conclusion : The Jewish ritual meal was one of 14 ...
... relationship is confirmed by the similarity between the structure of the Last Supper story in Luke 22 : 17-20 and the struc- ture of the Eucharist that is attested in 1 Corinthians 10 : 16-17 and Didache 9-10 . The Lukan redaction is ...
... relationship , I have tried to show the origin of the other descriptions of the Last Supper , which show a different structure from that of Luke . The same explanation applies to some other eucharistic celebrations such as the Eucharist ...
... relationship of the text to the Birkat ha - Mazon is unrecognizable , although its origin can be traced to Didache 10 , which derives directly from that Jewish prayer . 3 This fact makes understandable the importance of the thanksgiving ...