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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... speak authentically of New Testament events , as Jesus says in Luke 24:44 : " These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you that everything written about me in the law of Moses , the prophets , and the psalms must be ...
... speak of " memorial , " they usually specify " memorial in the biblical sense . " But there is , strictly speaking , no single biblical sense of the term " memorial , " since each book of the Old Testament has its own conception and use ...
... speak abstractly in reference to an indeterminate period , but if we look more closely , the historical set- ting is well defined : Israel is a national state like all those that made their appearance in Syria - Palestine at the end of ...
... speak of either a " sacred meal " or a " profane / secular meal . ” In Israel a meal was neither sacred nor secular , but reli- gious . This meant that the category of the sacred was transcended and that there was a direct relationship ...
... speaks of " what I also handed on to you , " an event that occurred probably in the fall of 49 , at the beginning of his missionary activity in Corinth . Paul also says that he passed on what he himself had re- ceived , but when did he ...