Apostolic Tradition

As part of the expansion, prayers expressing the intention for the sacramental presence began to appear, which in turn would have begun to replace the Our Father as the expression of a specific sacramental intention.

The Apostolic Tradition, written in about the year 200, and usually attributed to Hippolytus, is thought to be a foundational document for understanding early liturgies, and that's figure four in the interview.

Granted, this primitive liturgy is far from authoritative, and there's even a question as to how widespread was it used, but it does serve as a plausible source for what developed in the Roman canon to the point of making Christ's gift into our work.

But in this primitive liturgy, one can see a somewhat innocuous reference to the church's symbol offering of bread and wine for sacramental use.

Now, the elements seen already as the body and blood of Christ, they become something we offer to God for our salvation, rather than simple bread and wine, and we ask God to bless and consecrate for our use.

One can see this shift to have taken place fully in the parts of the Roman canon, and that's the next figure, figure six.

In this order, we can see the great expansion of the canon from what it had been in the days of the apostolic tradition.

We can also see an element of infusion in the , that's the second one.

It was a reality and it was about defending the faith, but you had to be prayed up.

Now we arrive at the apostolic tradition.

Okay.

Now we're in the early two hundreds and I'm going to disappoint a lot of you all.

I'm going to disappoint a lot of you all because for many years, many people would attribute to the document, the apostolic tradition to St. Hippolytus.

It's not from Hippolytus.

In fact, If you Google apostolic tradition online, there's tons of websites that quote it as if it is from St. Hippolytus.

It is not a Hippolytan work or Hippolytan work, however you want to say it.