#475 The Mass in the Early Church - Joe Heschmeyer

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🗓️ 8 March 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Modern people often have an unrealistic view of “development” in the early Church, thinking that ideas such as the divinity of Christ or practices such as the celebration of the Mass were products of early Church life rather than things received directly from Jesus. Joe Heschmeyer, author of The Early Church Was the Catholic Church, helps debunk some myths about where the Mass came from. Cy Kellett: Hello, and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers podcast for living, understanding, and defending your Catholic faith. I am Cy Kellett, your host, and delighted to get to talk with Jo…

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome to Focus the Catholic Answers Podcast for Living Understanding and Defending
0:10.4	Your Catholic Faith.
0:11.4	I am Si Kelly, your host, and delighted to get to talk with Joe Heschmeier this time about
0:17.5	actually quite an important subject that many people are quite unclear on.
0:23.4	Where did the Eucharist come from?
0:24.7	How did this thing that we do now, the Mass, develop?
0:29.3	How closely is it connected to Jesus?
0:31.2	How much of it is innovation on the part of the early church and the later church?
0:35.4	Is what we do now, anything like what they did in the earliest days of Christianity?
0:39.6	Joe Heschmeier, of course, the author of the early church was the Catholic church among
0:43.2	many other books, and a very fine apologist here at Catholic Answers.
0:46.6	Joe, welcome.
0:47.6	Thanks.
0:48.6	It's good to be here.
0:49.6	First of all, we're recording this two days after the Super Bowl, so congratulations
0:53.4	on the Kansas City Chiefs winning the Super Bowl.
0:55.3	Thank you.
0:56.3	I'm still glowing and trying not to gloat.
0:58.3	You're not succeeding at all.
0:59.9	It's trying not to gloat department.
1:01.9	So I hear I've got a brother in law who's an eagle fan, so I think a painful day for
1:06.1	him.
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