The mass that took place yesterday at Saint Aloysius down the street: when did it originate (I’m aware of the switch from Latin to the local vernacular in 1967(IIRC))? Surely last Sunday’s mass at St. Al’s wasn’t a word-for-word, ritual-for-ritual repeat of mass performed at a local neighborhood church in Rome in, say, 540? Or was it? And if not, when did the current version of the Sunday mass originate?
These three wiki articles are a good starting point:
Short version is that the Mass grew and developed considerably from the early days of the Church, with numerous regional variants or “Uses”.
As part of the Counter-Reformation, the Council of Trent recommended a single form for the Mass, to be used throughout the Roman Catholic church, which became known as the Tridentine Mass.
Following Vatican II, Pope Paul VI instituted a new form of the Mass.
You’ll also find the Anglican/Episopalian and Lutheran (among others) services to be more like the Roman Catholic mass than, say, the Greek Orthodox ritual.
Not that any of them are identical, but they do reflect common origin.