Celebration

“And on the day called Sunday, all who live in cities

or in the country gather together to one place, and

the memoirs of the apostles or the writings of the

prophets are read, as long as time permits; then,

when the reader has ceased, the president verbally

instructs and exhorts to the imitation of these good things. Then we all rise together and pray, and, as

we before said, when our prayer is ended, bread and wine and water are brought and the president in like manner offers prayers and thanksgivings, according to his ability, and the assent, saying Amen;”

 ...Justin Martyr