Didache and early Christian practice
About this date: Composition and layers of the text are debated; 120 is an approximate visual placement.
The Didache preserves teaching on the Two Ways, baptism, fasting, prayer, Eucharistic thanksgiving, and communal leadership.
Perspective note
Shared subject; this bundled record was originally written with an Orthodox-informed editorial lens.
Primary sources
The manual instructs:
Didache 14 directly instructs its community to gather, break bread, give thanks, and reconcile on the Lord's Day.
But every Lord's day gather yourselves together, and break bread, and give thanksgiving after having confessed your transgressions, that your sacrifice may be pure. But let no one that is at variance with his fellow come together with you, until they be reconciled, that your sacrifice may not be profaned.
Passage context and translation
The community is instructed to assemble on the Lord's Day, reconcile through confession, and give thanks together.
Before the excerpt
of money (silver) and clothing and every possession, take the first-fruit
After the excerpt
For this is that which was spoken by the Lord: In every place and time offer to me a pure sacrifice