What are the features of Egyptian liturgy?

The East in general, and Egyptian Church in particular, still retains the spirit of the apostolic patristic Liturgy. The liturgical texts that are used have not changed very much since the fifth century, which gives the study of the Egyptian liturgy particular importance. In his book “The Early Liturgy,” Father Jungmann says, “especially in the general structure of the Mass, the Oriental rites have kept many primitive characteristics which have disappeared from the Roman rite … Whereas our Mass changes day after day, the Orient constantly repeats the same invariable formulary.”¹⁵⁴⁶ Fr. Dix, the Anglican monk, says, “The main lines of all the Eastern traditions had been reached before the end of the fourth century, and after this the process in all of them is no more than one of adjustment and development of detail. No new principle arose in the fifth century, as it did in the West …”[ 1547]