The Liturgy and Ritual of the Celtic Church (Classic Reprint) Book

PREFACE. The following' pages contain au account of the Liturgy and Ritual of the Celtic Church in these islands, so far as their character can be ascertained from the limited sources of information open to us. They relate to a subject about which, until recently, very little was known. The great continental Liturgiologists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were either silent about it. or dismissed it as offering- no data for information and no materials for investigation. Mabillon wrote: * Onalis fherifc ajmd Britonos et Hibernos sacrificandi ritus, non plane comperttun est. Mo-dum tamen ilium a Romano diversum cxstit.isse intelligiruv cx Bernardo in libro de vita Malaehiae, capitibus iii et. viii. ubi Malachias barbaras consuetudines Roraanis mutasse, et eanonicum diviuae laudis officium in illas ccelesias invexisse iiieiuoratnr.'-I)e Liturgia GalHcana, Kb. i. c. ii. § 14. Gerbert wrote : ' In dubio est qui et- fjualis antiquitns ea ia orbis plaga fuerit ordo operis DeiTable of Contents CONTENTS; CAGE; Authorities cited xiii; CHAPTER I; § 1 Extent And Duration of the Celtic Church «; § 2 Jta Monastic and Missionary Character - i *; § 3 Its Orthodoxy z3; 5 11 Consecration Prayer '°8; § 12 Communion Antheuia ,110; § 10 Benedicite 1,1; § li Portion of the Priest m; §15 Veatoienta '»2; I 16 Use of Colours; § 17 Choml Service "5; § 18 Incense 1-7; § 19 Joint Consecration - 12S; § 20 Oblations and Offertory '3°; POE; § 21 "Unleavened BRead More