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To: stripes1776; HarleyD; Agrarian
Catholics holding daily Mass today is not evidence that the early disciples did.

I did not mean it as proof, but evidence it is, -- here is at least one apostolic Church doing it, and I am not aware of the daily Mass being any kind of Latin innovation. As Agrarian noted, the early Church had a much closer association between meal and Mass, so it would be reasonable to conjecture that it was.

8,413 posted on 06/12/2006 2:51:27 PM PDT by annalex
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To: annalex; HarleyD; Agrarian
I did not mean it as proof, but evidence it is, -- here is at least one apostolic Church doing it, and I am not aware of the daily Mass being any kind of Latin innovation. As Agrarian noted, the early Church had a much closer association between meal and Mass, so it would be reasonable to conjecture that it was.

As you say, that is a reasonable conjecture, not proof. Whatever form the early Christian worship service took, we simply don't know all the details. I think it reasonable that there was some variety of practice from one local church to another.

8,418 posted on 06/12/2006 4:17:09 PM PDT by stripes1776
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