This text is from the "Acta Saturnini" and is a copy of a trial against two Christians named Emeritus and Felix for celebrating Sunday Eucharist ... have you been to Sunday Eucharist lately?
Turning towards Emeritus, the Proconsul asked: “Were meetings, forbidden by the decrees of the Emperor, held in your house?"
Emeritus, full of the Holy Spirit, said: “In my house we celebrated the Sunday Eucharist.”
And the other asked: “Why did you allow them to enter?”
He replied: “Because they are my brothers and I cannot stop them.”
The Proconsul replied: “You had the responsibility to stop them”
And he said: “I could not because we are Christians and we cannot be without the Sunday Eucharist."
The Proconsul then turned to Felix: “Do not tell us if you are a Christian. Respond only if you participated in that meeting.”
But Felix responded: “As if the Christian can exist without the Sunday Eucharist or the Sunday Eucharist can be celebrated without the Christian! Don’t you know that the Christian finds his foundation in the Sunday Eucharist and the Sunday Eucharist in the Christian such that one cannot exist without the other? When you hear the name Christian, you know that he joins his brother before the Lord and, when you hear one speaking about a gathering, you recognize in that the name Christian. We have celebrated the gathering with great solemnity and we will always gather for the Sunday Eucharist and for reading the Scriptures of the Lord.”
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