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...Latin names, Synaxis and Collecta, and even Mass (which is Missus, the name for a course at a meal, preserved in our word Mess) show its social character: and this is the point of St. Paul's teaching about it in I Cor. XI, and also in the document called the Didache. Later on we find that what is now the offertory, was a contribution in kind by the wealthier members to a feast of which all partook. This was gradually set aside, until it became a sacrifice offered by a Priest on behalf of the rest. At the Reformation...