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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