I didn’t think so. Your post is an admission what Rome does today was not handed down from the Apostles. You killed your own thesis.
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I never said that the Catholic liturgy is identical to what was celebrated by St. Justin, Martyr or any of our ancient role models in Antioch, Jerusalem, Rome or Alexandria. That would be an incredibly stupid thing for me to say,--- yes, both incredible and stupid.
They provided us with the essential structure of the Liturgy, which was handed down to them from the Apostles.
You might try reading Joseph Ratzinger's "The Spirit of the Liturgy" .
Your incredulity is like that of another FReeper who argued to me, quite recently, that an early embryo is not a "person" because it
I pointed out that an early embryo has ALL the essential characteristics of a human being at that stage, and that a human at 18 months, 18 years, or 80 years still has those essential characteristics.
Although she claimed to have some science background, she apparently lacked an awareness of the developmental stages in the history of a living entity.