The Iron Kingdom Database

Early Liturgy: To the Time of Gregory the Great, The
Josef A. Jungmann

Number of quotes: 4

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Book ID: 216 Page: 5

Section: 2A4,4A

The most important of the liturgical sources made known at the earlier period are the following:

(1) Justin, the philosopher and martyr, who wrote his first Apology about 155 A.D. This contains, in chapters 65-67, some precious information about divine service.

Quote ID: 5378

Time Periods: 2

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Book ID: 216 Page: 6

Section: 2A2

To these sources, various new and important discoveries have now been added:

(1) The Didache, or Teaching of the Twelve Apostles, from the beginning of the second century. It was discovered in 1873 by an oriental bishop, Philotheos Bryennios. In the ninth and tenth chapters of the Didache are found the well-known Eucharistic prayers, but the precise place and meaning of these prayers is not very clear.

(2) The Traditio Apostolica of Hippolytus of Rome, written about the year 215. This work gives us a very clear picture of the Church’s liturgical life…

Quote ID: 5379

Time Periods: 23

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Book ID: 216 Page: 11

Section: 2A4,2D3B

Our Lord did not oppose this cult of the Old Testament as it took place in the temple. In fact, He Himself went to the temple for the great festivals. But He also clearly announced that this cult was not to endure much longer, and that the worship of the New Law was to be of a different kind and endowed with a different spirit.

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The same thought is found in St. Paul’s letter to the Romans (12:1); he demands of the faithful a spiritual service, the offerings of their bodies to God as a living, holy and pleasing sacrifice. They should keep themselves undefiled by the world’s way of life and should endeavor to do, according to God’s will, what is good and acceptable and perfect. That should be their consecration, that should be their sacrifice.

Quote ID: 5380

Time Periods: 2

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Book ID: 216 Page: 11/12

Section: 2A6

Stephen the Protomartyr shed his blood for the concept that the liturgy of the Old Testament and the cult connected with the Temple of Jerusalem had to cease and that a new sort of worship which is inward and spiritual must take its place.

Now the new worship was indeed a spiritual sort; it was worship “in spirit and in truth.” For it was worship paid God by men who were moved by the Holy Spirit. Yet its inwardness was not to debar all outward expression. This worship was not to consist exclusively in the individual’s private prayer; it was not to be inimical to liturgy. For our Lord did not reveal doctrine, He founded a Church, a visible Church, a Church with visible men as leaders to guide the Church in His name, a Church into which entrance was to be gained by the visible sign of baptism, a Church whose members would gather together visibly in a communal meal, whose members were to honor God in common. He had established a new liturgy, the liturgy of the New Testament.

Quote ID: 5381

Time Periods: 12

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