Froude (Remains, vol. 2nd, p. 387) give a similar account of the
Roman liturgy. They, like archbishop Wake, attribute the origin of the
Roman, Oriental, Ethiopic and Mozarabic liturgies to St. Peter, St.
James, St. Mark and St. John, and observe that all other liturgies
are copied from one or other of these. "In each of these four original
liturgies the eucharist is regarded as a mystery and as a sacrifice"
p. 395: they all agree in the principal ceremonies of the mass, and
all contain a prayer for the rest and peace of all those who have
departed this life in God's faith and fear" p. 393. "Now it may
be reasonably presumed", says archbishop Wake "that those passages
wherein all these liturgies agree, in sense at least, if not in words,
were first prescribed in the writings of the ancient fathers". See
Tracts for the times, no. 63.]
[Footnote 9: They who wish for further details may consult Le Brun,
Card. Bona, Martene, Gavant, Rock's Hierurgia etc.]
[Footnote 10: Because anciently sung from the _steps_ of the _ambo_ or
pulpit, according to Rabanus Maurus an author of the 9th century, and
others. In the ancient churches there were generally in the _chorus_
or choir two ambones, one from which at solemn masses the lector and
at a later period the subdeacon used to sing the gospel, with his face
usually turned towards that side of the church, where the _men_ were
assembled; at Rome this was generally the south side.
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