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Liturgy is the customary public ritual of worship performed by a religious group. [1] As a religious phenomenon, liturgy represents a communal response to and participation in the sacred through activities reflecting praise , thanksgiving, remembrance, supplication , or repentance .
Liturgics, also called liturgical studies or liturgiology, is the academic discipline dedicated to the study of liturgy (public worship rites, rituals, and practices). Liturgics scholars typically specialize in a single approach drawn from another scholarly field. The most common sub-disciplines are: history or church history, theology, and ...
Christian liturgy is a pattern ... in which the historical forms of the Mass are ... The Lutheran Liturgy: a Study [especially] of the Common Service of the ...
A History of the Book of Common Prayer, with a Rationale of its Offices is an 1855 textbook by Francis Procter on the Book of Common Prayer, a series of liturgical books used by the Church of England and other Anglicans in worship. In 1901, Walter Frere published an updated version, entitled A New History of the Book of Common Prayer.
Latin liturgical rites, or Western liturgical rites, is a large family of liturgical rites and uses of public worship employed by the Latin Church, the largest particular church sui iuris of the Catholic Church, that originated in Europe where the Latin language once dominated.
Liturgy encompasses the entire service: prayer, reading and proclamation, singing, gestures, movement and vestments, liturgical colours, symbols and symbolic actions, the administration of sacraments and sacramentals. Liturgy (from Greek: leitourgia) is a composite word meaning originally a public duty, a service to the state undertaken by a ...
translator of Christus Victor: An Historical Study of the Three Main Types of the Idea of Atonement, by Gustaf Aulén, London: SPCK, 1931; translator of Agape and Eros - a study of the Christian idea of love. Part I, by Anders Nygren, London: SPCK, 1932; Liturgy and Society, London: Faber and Faber, 1935; The Parish Eucharist, 1936
Having begun by studying the Middle Ages, Casel looked at the origins of Christian liturgy in pagan cultic acts, understanding liturgy as a profound universal human act as well as a religious one. In his Ecclesia Orans ( The Praying Church ) (1918), Casel studied and interpreted the pagan mysteries of ancient Greece and Rome, discussing ...