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The Synodal Letter of Rimini and the Roman Canon Missae

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 July 2017

Dom Thomas Michels
Dom Thomas Michels*
Affiliation:
St. Paul's Priory Keyport, N. J.
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The origin of the actual Roman Canon missae, despite the labors of prominent scholars in the field of Liturgy, remains a secret. We agree with Dom Bernard Botte who declares in regard to questions concerning the Roman Canon:

Il faut reconnaître que jusqu'à present on n'a pas fait la lumière sur des questions très obscures et que les hypothèses les plus ingénieuses ne suffisent pas à satisfaire l'historien quand elles ne reposent pas sur un ensemble de faits bien établis. D'autre part, les hypothèses sont nécessaires à l'avancement de la science et il en est de très séduisantes. Le tout est de ne pas se laisser emporter par elles et de ne pas prendre pour la réalité ce qui n'est que construction provisoire.

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Traditio , Volume 2 , 1944 , pp. 486 - 491
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Copyright © 1944 by Cosmopolitan Science & Art Service Co., Inc. 

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14 It is noteworthy that, as late as the end of the fifth century, Gelasius I (492-496) refers to a text in the Roman Canon which seems to be the original conclusion of the Quam oblationem.—Adversus Eutych. III, 14 (Thiel, , Epist. Roman. Pontif. I, 541): Et certe imago et similitudo corporis et sanguinis christi in actione mysteriorum celebratur. Google Scholar

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