If your a Catholic, you will find this quote very familiar. If your not, you may still find it interesting on how the earliest Christians worshiped on Sundays. And on the day called Sunday, all who live in cities or in the country gather together to one place, and the memoirs of the apostles or the writings of the prophets are read, as long as time permits; then, when the reader has ceased, the president [presider] verbally instructs [sermon], and exhorts to the imitation of these good things. Then we all rise together and pray, and, as we before said, when our prayer is ended, bread and wine and water are brought, and the president in like manner offers prayers and thanksgivings [consecrates], according to his ability, and the people assent, saying Amen; and there is a distribution to each [communion], and a participation of that over which thanks have been given, and to those who are absent a portion is sent by the deacons. And they who are well to do, and willing, give what each thinks fit [offering]; and what is collected is deposited with the president, who succours the orphans and widows and those who, through sickness or any other cause, are in want, and those who are in bonds and the strangers sojourning among us, and in a word takes care of all who are in need. But Sunday is the day on which we all hold our common assembly, because it is the first day on which God, having wrought a change in the darkness and matter, made the world; and Jesus Christ our Saviour on the same day rose from the dead. -Justin Martyr, 155 A.D. The basics of the Mass hasnt changed much in 1900 years. Catholic beliefs havent changed at all either. They have only become a little more refined and explained a little better with time. This is how the Catholic Church worshiped on Sundays in the year 155 A.D. How did your church worship in the year 155 A.D.? The Catholic Church can historically trace its history back to Jesus Christ. Before 1900 there were no Assemblies of God church, Church of Christ, no United Methodist church, before 1800 there was no Church of God in Christ, Pentecostals, Seventh Day Adventists, no Disciples of Christ, no Jehovah Witness or Mormans. Before 1700s there was no Methodist church or Episcopalian church or Unitarian church. Before the 1600s there was no Baptists, no Puritans or Congregationalists. Before the 1500s, there was no Reformed church. There was no Presbyterian or Anglican church. There was no Lutheran either. Before 1500, there was no Protestants, only Catholics. All these churches have one thing in common, they were all founded by a men. The Catholic Church was founded by a Man too. That man was Jesus Christ. No one else can make make that claim. History proves this. John Henry Newman said, to be deep in history, is to cease being Protestant.
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