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The Kiss of Peace

Greet one another with a holy kiss — peace exchanged in the assembly

The Kiss of Peace is a ritual greeting of peace — a kiss, embrace, or handshake — exchanged among the faithful during worship. Paul urges believers to greet one another with a holy kiss, and Justin Martyr's First Apology describes it in the early liturgy. The custom is kept across communions, though its placement differs: before the anaphora in Eastern rites, and near the Our Father in the Roman rite.

How it traveled

  1. Letters of Athanasius with Two Ancient Chronicles of His Life
    Alexandria · 373
    applies
  2. The Catechetical Lectures of S. Cyril
    Jerusalem · 386
    explains
  3. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Paul's Epistle to the Romans
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains

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1 Peter · Pope Peter the Apostle

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Homilies on Second Corinthians · John Chrysostom

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The First Apology · Justin Martyr

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Book VIII. Concerning Gifts, and Ordinations, and the Ecclesiastical Canons · Constitutions of the Holy Apostles

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Homilies on First Corinthians · John Chrysostom

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The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Paul's Epistle to the Romans · John Chrysostom

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The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Paul's Epistle to the Romans · John Chrysostom

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The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom · John Chrysostom

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