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

Liturgy and E,itual 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 investiga tion. Mabillon wrote: Qualis fuerit apud Britonos et Hibernos sacrificandi ritus, non plane compertum est. Modum tamen ilium a Romano diversum exstitisse iutelligitur ex Bernardo in libro de vita Malachiae, capitibus iii et viii, ubi Malachias barbaras consuetudines Roraanis mutasse, et canonicum divinae laudis omcium in illad ecclesias invexisse memoratur. De Liturgia Gallicana, lib. i. c. ii. 14. Gerbert wrote :I ndubio est quiet qualis antiquitus ea in orbis plaga fuerit ordo operis Dei. Lit. A leman. i. 76. Jn more recent times Dr. Lingard has disclaimed all possibility of any knowledge of the subject :W hether the sacrificial service of the Scottish missionaries varied from that of the Romans we have no means of judging. Anglo Saxon Church, edit. 1858, vol. i. p. 271. Sir W. Palmer in his Origines Liturgicae
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