text: Are you telling me that early Christians, secretly gathered in one's house, had ordained "priests" wearing fancy garb, used shiny chalices to confect and contain the host, strict liturgical decorum, read passages from scriptures YET to be recorded and had a secret allegiance to an infallible Roman magisterium?
  
  Even modern Catholic scholarship agrees that Jesus' sacrifice was a "once for all time" event (essentially a protestant tenet), so now we have been trained to call it a "re-presentation" of His holy sacrifice, with contrived and contorted rubrics to explain it all away. I sincerely beseech you to read up modern scholarship concerning early church formation, worship and practices, such as "voluntary associations" (how early Christians legally navigated under Roman law), how congregations were formed and the like. You will clearly see that is was a product of the prevailing culture, as was the post-Constantine church. We no longer have to "take Rome's word for it," nor should we.