Posted on 04/05/2014 10:28:31 AM PDT by marshmallow
Who in Sam Hill told you liturgy was invented in 1550?
Did you forget that Judaism is a liturgical religion with feast days and a yearly calendar and set prayers and ceremonies in a separate liturgical language? Do you think the Apostles just scrapped all that the day after the Resurrection? Did you forget that every single group that broke away from the Catholic Church from the monophysites all the way to the Moravian Brethren in the 1400s had a liturgy?
Not to mention that our earliest extant liturgy dates from the 300s:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liturgy_of_the_eighth_book_of_the_Apostolic_Constitutions
And the Didache and Justin Martyr show this custom goes all the way back to Apostolic times.
Well you were a child then. You probably didn’t have a clue of how finances work either. But I’m betting you rectified that situation as you got older.
You’ve got the whole Internet in front of you now and you can easily find out exactly what those prayers say and what they mean.
Is that the one famous for the birds returning mid-March as a reminder that springtime is here?
Many do, for Catholicism spans the entire globe. Check out this chart.
Won’t address the last comment on being saved—zero sum gain.
However, most (and I’m talking 99%) of the old missal was assuredly scripture—Old and New Testaments. The only, tiny section of the missal that wasn’t “scripture” per se was the unchanging format of the Mass which itself was composed of “scripture.” You cited some (Ad Deum qui laetificat, e.g., but nearly everything else in the Mass is likewise taken from “scripture”).
Actually, the only point I can cede here is that the missal isn’t scripture in the order scripture is recorded.
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