La Prière gallicane post eucharistiam, vestige de la Birkat hammazon

Authors

  • Matthieu Smyth

Abstract

Evidence from the Gallican and Spanish liturgies demonstrates that ancient Western post-communion rites had kept an important feature from the Jewish meal benedictions, namely the final cup benediction, the Birkat hammazon. It was handed over to the Western tradition through some Jewish Christian Eucharistic prayer akin to the one from the Didachè. Parallels can be drawn from the ancient Alexandrinian tradition and the Eastern Syrian liturgy. In other words, it shows that the Gallican liturgy bears testimony to a time when the Eucharistic meal was still framed by Jewish- Christian prayers of prays.

Published

2010-07-12

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