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... These changes were derived from former designs of the church, and from various chapels around the world. ... Its development took almost two millenniums, and bore deep and ineradicable scars from its spiritual development along the way. ... Development
The development of the church started from the fundamental acts of worship, the celebration of the Eucharist, and the sacraments, which were all acts of prayer and were liturgical sermons to express the command of Jesus Christ. ...
From the beginning of the fourth century, the church was observed and were said to have establishments in monastic houses. Because of this development, new hours of the mass were declared and to a certain extent that the monastic custom of reciting the hours of prayer together became an important thing from the fourth century onwards, that even non-monastic communities adopted it.
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