Worship (I): The 2nd C: A View from the Inside

<p>For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ <a href="https://www.douglasjacoby.com/worshipi/" target="_blank"><strong>website.</strong></a></p><p><strong>Justin Martyr, </strong><i><strong>First Apology</strong></i><strong> 65-67</strong></p><p>But we, after we have thus washed him who has been convinced and has assented to our teaching, bring him to the place where those who are called brothers are assembled, in order that we may offer hearty prayers in common for ourselves and for the baptized illuminated person, and for all others in every place, that we may be counted worthy, now that we have learned the truth, by our works also to be found good citizens and keepers of the commandments, so that we may be saved with an everlasting salvation. Having ended the prayers, we salute one another with a kiss.</p><p>There is then brought to the president of the brothers bread and a cup of wine mixed with water; and he taking them, gives praise and glory to the Father of the universe, through the name of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, and offers thanks at considerable length for our being counted worthy to receive these things at His hands... all the people present express their assent by saying Amen… those who are called by us deacons give to each of those present to partake of the bread and wine mixed with water over which the thanksgiving was pronounced, and to those who are absent they carry away a portion.</p><p>And this food is called among us Eucharist, of which no one is allowed to partake but the man who believes that the things which we teach are true, and who has been washed with the washing that is for the remission of sins, and unto regeneration, and who is so living as Christ has enjoined. For not as common bread and common drink do we receive these; but in like manner as Jesus Christ our Savior, having been made flesh by the Word of God, had both flesh and blood for our salvation</p><p>For the apostles, in the memoirs composed by them, which are called Gospels, have thus delivered unto us wha