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The Church Fathers · c. 5th century; older material within it

The Liturgy of Saint James

The church of Jerusalem

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What it is

The eucharistic rite of Jerusalem, with the fullest of all ancient anaphoras: a long thanksgiving over creation, the Sanctus, the words of institution, and an explicit invocation of the Spirit on the gifts. It contains the hymn Let all mortal flesh keep silence.

Why it lasted

The parent of the Syriac and Armenian liturgies and the model for Basil's and Chrysostom's. Its epiclesis is the text the East has always cited against the Western view that the words of institution alone consecrate.

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Where to read it

Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.

These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.

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