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Re: [romconlang] A question to get the list talking again



Adam Walker jazdy:

> > > > If you have Word Perfect, I have a number of
> > > > ancient liturgies archived. You'd be welcome
> > > to
> > > > that material too.
> > > >
> > >
> > > I'm sure I can find a computer somewhere with
> > > access.
> > > I'd love to see them.
> >
> > If you'ld prefer, I could save them as text
> > files.
> >
>
> That would be fantabulous!

I would be interested too.

> > I take it they mix a kind of doughy bread
> > (perhaps almost a flatbread) with wine? In the
> > Eastern church, it's sort of spooned out.
>
> Ewww!  You're kidding, right?  No I guess not.  Oh,
> I'm gonna be ill.

Padraic is not kidding. In ROC they indeed mix leavened bread with diluted
wine...

> > > I still haven't decided on
> > > the orientation of altars, etc.
> >
> > The earliest churches are usually oriented to the
> > east; the priest faces east too. Quite unlike
> > modern usage!
>
> I'm pretty sure this will be true in Donatist
> churhces.  Not sure about the direction the priest
> will face.

That may seem practise from synagogue times. The chazan/cantor (the person
who leads public prayer) faces the same direction the praying people do.

-- Yitzik