Video: "The Catholic Mass in 155 A.D."

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Oh for crying out loud: it’s just the text of the classic Apologia.

I was hoping for an actual video of the Roman liturgy of the era. Now THAT would have been interesting.
 
Sure. Sure. They had the mass in 155 A.D.

But will they have one at 1:55 PM? :nope:

🤷 Soooo … I gotta *drrrag *myself outta my bunk before noon on the Lord’s “Day of Rest.” :sleep::yawn::ouch:

mumble grumble

Bet it was a Latin Mass. Which would have been in the vernacular come to think of it! :newidea:
 
porthos11 said:
Oh for crying out loud: it’s just the text of the classic Apologia.

I was hoping for an actual video of the Roman liturgy of the era. Now THAT would have been interesting.
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I have one of those, but it’s Betamax.
 
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Sure. Sure. They had the mass in 155 A.D.

But will they have one at 1:55 PM? :nope:

🤷 Soooo … I gotta *drrrag *myself outta my bunk before noon on the Lord’s “Day of Rest.” :sleep::yawn::ouch:

mumble grumble
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Oh, the Christians at first actually worshiped at Saturday night up to Sunday dawn. (It seems they preserved the Jewish idea of reckoning the beginning of the day at sundown, so Saturday night = Sunday). Either you’ll have to sleep late, or you have to wake up very early. (Later the time was shifted so that the liturgy was held at dawn or early morning Sunday.) 😃
Bet it was a Latin Mass. Which would have been in the vernacular come to think of it! :newidea:
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Well, technically it would have been in Greek, the vernacular among many of the lower classes of Rome and the ‘common language’ among many Christians (Christianity, after all, arose from the Greek-speaking East and was brought by Greek-speaking immigrants) 😉 It wasn’t until Pope Victor I (died 203), who was from Latin-speaking Roman Africa, that Latin began to be used for the liturgy, and then mainly only in the readings; the prayers continued to be said in Greek. (Coincidentally, that was also around the time when the stream of Greek-speaking immigrants from the East began to plummet.) And it wasn’t until a century after that the liturgy became purely in Latin, after the Latin speakers had completely dominated Roman Christianity.
 
patrick457 said:
Well, technically it would have been in Greek, the vernacular among many of the lower classes of Rome and the ‘common language’ among many Christians (Christianity, after all, arose from the Greek-speaking East and was brought by Greek-speaking immigrants) 😉 It wasn’t until Pope Victor I (died 203), who was from Latin-speaking Roman Africa, that Latin began to be used for the liturgy, and then mainly only in the readings; the prayers continued to be said in Greek. (Coincidentally, that was also around the time when the stream of Greek-speaking immigrants from the East began to plummet.) And it wasn’t until a century after that the liturgy became purely in Latin, after the Latin speakers had completely dominated Roman Christianity.
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But…how could they read and understand the King James Bible? :eek:
 
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