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The earliest surviving account of the celebration of the Eucharist or the Mass in Rome is that of Saint Justin Martyr (died c. 165), in chapter 67 of his First Apology [2]:Was the Mass Liturgy taught in a native language?
On the day called Sunday, all who live in cities or in the country gather together to one place, and the memoirs of the apostles or the writings of the prophets are read, as long as time permits; then, when the reader has ceased, the president verbally instructs, and exhorts to the imitation of these good things. Then we all rise together and pray, and, as we before said, when our prayer is ended, bread and wine and water are brought, and the president in like manner offers prayers and thanksgivings, according to his ability, and the people assent, saying Amen; and there is a distribution to each, and a participation of that over which thanks have been given, and to those who are absent a portion is sent by the deacons.
In chapter 65, Justin Martyr says that the kiss of peace was given before the bread and the wine mixed with water were brought to *“the president of the brethren.” *The language used was doubtless Greek, except in particular for the Hebrew word *“Amen”, *whose meaning Justin explains in Greek (γένοιτο), saying that by it “all the people present express their assent” when the president of the brethren “has concluded the prayers and thanksgivings.”
Here are some history of the Mass Liturgy. In the beginning, the Mass was read in Greek. Historians are not sure when the Western Churches change from Greek to Latin.
Pope Victor I, an African, (190-202) may be the first to have introduced Latin in the Roman Liturgy.
According to Wikipedia, the change was gradual.
Here are some more detailed information.
Before the pontificate of Pope Gregory I (590–604), the Roman Mass rite underwent many changes, including a “complete recasting of the Canon” (a term that in this context means the Anaphora or Eucharistic Prayer), “… the Eucharistic prayer was fundamentally changed and recast” (Catholic Encyclopedia, “Liturgy of the Mass”),[3] the number of Scripture readings was reduced, the prayers of the faithful were omitted (leaving, however, the “Oremus” that once introduced them), the kiss of peace was moved to after the Consecration, and there was a growing tendency to vary, in reference to the feast or season, the prayers, the Preface, and even the Canon.
With regard to the Roman Canon of the Mass, the prayers beginning Te igitur, Memento Domine and Quam oblationem were already in use, even if not with quite the same wording as now, by the year 400; the Communicantes, the Hanc igitur, and the post-consecration Memento etiam and Nobis quoque were added in the fifth century.[3]
((continue))Pope Gregory I made a general revision of the liturgy of the Mass, “removing many things, changing a few, adding some,” as his biographer, John the Deacon, writes. He is credited with adding a phrase to the Eucharistic Prayer, and he placed the Lord’s Prayer immediately after the Canon, as he himself wrote.