DOSSIER OFFERTORY (Commentaries)F.E. Warren: The Liturgy and Ritual of the Ante-Nicene Church, London, SPCK, 1912Rorem Paul: The Medieval Development of Liturgical SymbolismGrove Liturgical Study No.47, Bramcote, Grove Books, 1986Hanson R.P.C.: Eucharistic Offering in the Early ChurchGrove Liturgical Study No.47, Bramcote, Grove Books, 1986Clark Alan: The Origin and Development of the Offertory Rite and its Function in the Sacrifice of the Mass,Ephemerides Liturgicae 64 (1950), 309-344Williams Rowan: Eucharistic Sacrifice - The Roots of a Metaphor, Grove Liturgical Study No.31, Bramcote, Grove Books,1982Thomas M. Finn: Early Christian Baptism and the Catechumenate. West and East SyriaCollegeville, The Liturgical Press, 1992, 111-206Congregation for the Eastern Churches: Instruction for applying the liturgical prescriptions of the Code ofCanons of the Eastern Churches, 1996Allan Bouley: From freedom to formula, the evolution of the eucharistic prayer from oral improvisation towritten texts, Washington, The Catholic University of America PressCabrol Fernand: La messe en Occident, Paris, Bloud & Gay, 1932, Trad. Angl.Jean-Marc Dufort: Le symbolisme eucharistique aux origines de l'Eglise, Bruxelles, Desclée de Brouwer, 1969Gregory Dix: The Shape of the Liturgy, London, Adam & Charles Black, 1960Van Koeverden: Offerande-Consecratie-Nuttiging, Nederlandse Katholieke Stemmen 19 (1919) 23-362.Johannes H. Emminghaus: The Eucharist, Essence, Form, Celebration, Collegeville, The Liturgical Press, 1997Josef A. Jungmann: The Early Liturgy to the Time of Gregory the Great, Univ. of ND Press, 19591F.E. Warren: The Liturgy and Ritual of the Ante-Nicene Church, London, SPCK, 1912[p.117] Incense. There is no evidence for the use of incense in Christian worship during the first 3 centuries.1The offering of incense was so intimately associated with the worship of idols and with the early persecution ofthe Christian religion, that we may well conjecture, though we have no proof, that it...