Table of Contents

Contents: PART ONE: THE PASCHAL LITURGY IN THE PRIMITIVE CHURCH I. THE APOSTOLIC AGE (a) The Day (b) The Week (c) Pascha and Pentecost II. THE GOSPELS AND THE PASCHA (a) The Passion Narrative of Mark (b) The Pascha in the Gospel of Mark Appended Note: The Twelve in the Markan Passion Narrative III. THE CONTROVERSY ABOUT THE PASCHA IV. THE CHURCH'S PASCHA C. A.D. 200 (a) The Fast (b) The Vigil (c) The Baptism (d) The Confirmation (e) The Eucharist Appended Note: The Pascha in Second Century Gnosticism V. THE PASCHA IN PRIVATE DEVOTION (a) The Weekly Stations (b) Daily Hours of Prayer PART TWO: THE PASCHAL LITURGY IN THE APOCALYPSE VI. THE STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK OF, REVELATION VII. THE SCRUTINIES, VIGIL, AND INITIATION (a) The Scrutinies (b) The Vigil (c) The Initiation VIII. THE SYNAXIS AND EUCHARIST (a) The Synaxis (b) The Eucharist INDEX

About the Author

The late Massey Shepherd, a major figure in American liturgical studies and the liturgical movement for many years, was co-founder in 1946 of Associated Parishes aiming (inter alia) to restore the eucharist to the main Sunday worship service. He long served as director of the School of Theology at Sewanee Theological Seminary. From 1954 until his retirement in 1981 he held the Hodges Chair in Liturgics at The Church Divinity School of the Pacific at Berkeley (California). He was a member of the Standing Liturgical Commission during the 1950s and later took part in the Consilium of Vatican II. In 1977 he and Alan Conner founded the periodical Illuminations. Publications: The Oxford American Prayer Book Commentary, 1950 The Worship of the Church, 1953 A Liturgical Psalter for the Eucharist, 1976