MASORETIC TEXT. See Bible Text, I.

MASS

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I. The Doctrine.

1. The Name "Mass"

Etymology and Meaning (§ 1).

2. New Testament and Early Catholic Ideas.

The New Testament (§ 1).

Further Development (§ 2).

The Sources (§ 3).

3. Patristic Teachings.

Cyprian and Origen (§ 1).

Ambrose and Augustine (§ 2).

Gregory the Great (§ 3).

The East (§ 4).

Chrysostom (§ 5).

4. Medieval Theories.

Practical Factors (§ 1).

Scholastic Dogmaticians. Thomas Aquinas (§ 2).

5. The Council of Trent and Neoscholastic and Modern Speculations.

The Council of Trent (§ 1).

Bellarmine (§ 2).

Neoscholasticism (§ 3)

Later and Present Theories (§ 4).

II. The Liturgy.

1. Development of the Roman Mass to Gregory I.

The First Three Centuries (§ 1).

The Fourth and Fifth Centuries (§ 2).

The Sources (§ 3).

2. Liturgies Outside of Rome.

General Character and Relations (§ 1).

The Sources (§ 2).

3. The Supplanting of the non-Roman Liturgies by the Roman.

Africa, Spain, Milan and Great Britain (§ 1).

France and Germany (§ 2).

4. The Development of the Roman Mass after Gregory I.

Certain Additions (§ 1).

The Roman Missal (§ 2).

5. The Withholding of the Cup.

6. Kinds of Masses.

7. Modern Procedure in the Mass.