The mass and vestments of the Catholic church, liturgical, doctrinal, historical and archaeological . -^ . - c G7;! a, ^ 1«F. />-- £v-= ro. 3: l «a- ,v Qi Dhz 03O Xh z X - wSoat H< 3z Slu O 74 The Mass and Vestments the Holy Sacrifice as to preclude the possibility ofthe resemblance being accidental. In any event,the verisimilitude is so striking that the Christians,at the end of the first century, hearing the pas-sage read would discern all the dominant featuresof the Mass, at which they were about to bishop seated on his throne at the end of thechurch in the apse surrou
The mass and vestments of the Catholic church, liturgical, doctrinal, historical and archaeological . -^ . - c G7;! a, ^ 1«F. />-- £v-= ro. 3: l «a- ,v Qi Dhz 03O Xh z X - wSoat H< 3z Slu O 74 The Mass and Vestments the Holy Sacrifice as to preclude the possibility ofthe resemblance being accidental. In any event,the verisimilitude is so striking that the Christians,at the end of the first century, hearing the pas-sage read would discern all the dominant featuresof the Mass, at which they were about to bishop seated on his throne at the end of thechurch in the apse surrounded by his twenty-fourwhite-robed presbyters; the lamps burning beforethe Divme Presence; the chant of the Sanctustaken up by the elders; the Eucharistic praises forthe blessing of creation and redemption; thedescent among them of the central figure, thelamb standing as it were slain, were the sacro-sanct scenes enacted before their senses, thereality of which was hidden behind the it a strain on the verities that much of theritual was moulded on this description? Unlessthese ceremonies already
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