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Apostolic Tradition, as this text is best known, was identified in the early years of the twentieth century as the work of Hippolytus, a Christian leader from third-century Rome. The text provides liturgical information of great antiquity, and as such has been massively influential on liturgical study and reform, especially in Western churches. Nonetheless, there have been a number of problems...

This chapter might appear to be early evidence for eucharistic fasting. We shall observe in the comment on chapters 36–38 below that this is not the original context of this direction but that in origin this was a direction that, when the Eucharist was celebrated in the context of a meal, the eucharistic species should be consumed before the meal. However, we shall also observe that in its current context it regulates the reception of communion at home. That this was received as the first
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