Liturgy

Liturgy (Greek: λειτουργία) is the customary public worship performed by a specific religious group, according to its particular beliefs, customs and traditions.

The word, sometimes rendered by its English translation "service", may refer to an elaborate formal ritual such as the Eastern Orthodox Divine Liturgy (Greek: Θεία Λειτουργία), Catholic Mass, the Eucharist or Mass (Anglican Communion) or a daily activity such as the Muslim salah and Jewish services. As a religious phenomenon, liturgy is a communal response to the sacred through activity reflecting praise, thanksgiving, supplication, or repentance. Ritualization may be associated with life events such as birth, coming of age, marriage and death. It thus forms the basis for establishing a relationship with a divine agency, as well as with other participants in the liturgy. Methods of dress, preparation of food, application of cosmetics or other hygienic practices are all considered liturgical activities.

Etymology

The word liturgy, derived from the technical term in ancient Greek, leitourgia, signifies the often expensive offers of service to the people, and thus to the polis and the state. Through the leitourgia, the rich carried a financial burden and were correspondingly rewarded with honours. The leitourgia became both mandatory and honorific, supporting the patron's standing among the elite. The holder of a Hellenic leitourgia was not taxed a specific sum, but was entrusted with a particular ritual, which could be performed with greater or lesser magnificence. The chief sphere remained that of civic religion, embodied in the festivals: M.I. Finley notes "in Demosthenes' day there were at least 97 liturgical appointments in Athens for the festivals, rising to 118 in a (quadrennial) Panathenaic year." Eventually, under the Roman Empire, such obligations, known as munera, devolved into a competitive and ruinously expensive burden that was avoided when possible.

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Tens of thousands of prisoners across the country withheld their labor – for which they are paid as little as 17 cents an hour – in support of inmates’ rights. @nickywoolf. Richard Castillo has not yet been convicted of the crime – evading police in a vehicle – of which he stands accused. But he has been imprisoned since February 2013, including 12 months in solitary confinement ... Read more ... Another inmate who joined the strike was Tony ... ....

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Author: Churches must man up to get men back

Edit Arkansas Online 22 Oct 2016

EDITOR'S NOTE. This is the second of two columns on men avoiding church. Sunday after Sunday, believers stand and sing at the start of worship. Here is the question author Leon Podles wants church leaders to ponder ... ... • Music and art matter ... • Bishops need priests committed to excellence in preaching and liturgy, because, "men are turned off by activities that seem to be inept and just another form of killing time," Podles argued....

Ukraine to mark 70th anniversary of elimination of Armenian Apostolic Church on October 25

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The Armenian Catholic Church of Ukraine – one of the Eastern Catholic Churches – was established as a result of the union of part of the Armenians with the Roman Apostolic See in 1742.  The Churches uses the Armenian Rite during liturgies ... ....

Father Ciszek Day highlighted by Mass in his Shenandoah hometown (Diocese of Allentown)

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Ronald Bocian, pastor of Divine Mercy, was principal celebrant of the afternoon liturgy ... Every pew was filled for the liturgy and more than 150 people visited the center, according to Elaine Cusat, board treasurer of the league and a volunteer since the cause for canonization began ... A Panachida Service - a service to remember the deceased in the Eastern Catholic and Orthodox Churches - was conducted at the conclusion of the liturgy....

Spiritual adviser: Trump more devout than you'd think

Edit The Oklahoman 21 Oct 2016

Donald Trump was ashamed -- contrite even -- as he spoke to Paula White hours after the video of him bragging about groping women was released. "I heard it in his voice," said White, a Florida pastor who, outside of Trump's family, is his closest spiritual confidant ... Positive thinking ... Rather than sequester "religion" as something we do on Sunday, Smith argues that our habits -- he calls them "liturgies" -- form "grooves in our soul." ... ....

The guilt-free gospel of Donald Trump

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(Source ... 20-22 ... 20-22 ... Oct ... 22 ... 4 ... All are welcome to place a paper copy of a picture of their beloved dead on the Dia de los Muertos altar, located in the center devotional space in the North wall of the Chapel,' said Kathy Sales, assistant director of campus ministry for liturgy ... Deacon Royce Winters, director of the Office of African American Catholic Ministries with the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, will deliver the homily at this liturgy....

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Radio host Alex Jones' recent accusation that Hillary Clinton and President Obama are possessed by demons has a long history within early Christian literature and liturgy--even if demon possession seems only the stuff of horror movies today ... ....

Red Mass invokes the Holy Spirit on legal community at annual lit (Diocese of Allentown)

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(Source. Diocese of Allentown). October 19, 2016 at 2.12 PM. By TAMI QUIGLEY Staff writer. 'I commend the St ... 12 at the Cathedral of St. Catharine of Siena, Allentown. Click on the image to make it bigger. Tags.. Category. LOCAL. Bishop John Barres was main celebrant of the evening liturgy sponsored by the St. Thomas More Society of the Diocese of Allentown ... The liturgy was followed by a reception hosted by the society in the parish center....

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill completes his visit to Great Britain (Moscow Patriarchate)

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(Source. Moscow Patriarchate). Share the post 'His Holiness Patriarch Kirill completes his visit to Great Britain' ... Alexander Volkov, head of the Patriarchal Press Service ... Alexander Yakovenko, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to Great Britain ... After celebrating the Divine Liturgy in the newly consecrated Cathedral of the Holy Dormition, His Holiness addressed the worshippers with a Primatial homily....

Baltimore exhibit of religious works of art offers 'feast for the senses' (Diocese of Allentown)

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(Source. Diocese of Allentown). October 19, 2016 at 9.46 AM. By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic News Service. BALTIMORE (CNS) -- A 500-year-old oil painting of 'The Glorification of the Virgin' now on display at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore is a genuine feast for the senses ... Click on the image to make it bigger and to read the caption. Tags.. Category. NATIONAL ... 8 ... Many of the works on display were used in Catholic liturgy and devotion....

Richard Rohr wants Christians to see the Trinity as a divine dance

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Catholic theologian Karl Rahner once wrote that Christians behave as “mere monotheists.” That is, if Christianity ended up dropping the doctrine of the Trinity, he suggested, the day-to-day lives of Christians would remain largely unchanged. Richard Rohr wants to change that ... James Martin and Sister Simone Campbell ... How? ... In Catholic funeral liturgy, we say that life is not ended, but merely changed. I admit it ... Is it? ... ....

—Reconcile—Make Disciples—Live the Mission— October (Diocese of Rapid City)

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(Source. Diocese of Rapid City). Bringing the Priority Plan to life at home and in the community. -Reconcile-Make Disciples-Live the Mission-. -Reconcile-. Fr. John Hatcher, SJ. President, St ... They also got a taste for how the cultural gifts of the people enriched the Liturgy and their experience ... It was only a taste of what the ancient relationship God established with Lakota people can bring to the Liturgy and theology of the church ... Fr ... '....

In Memoriam: Archimandrite Alexander laid to rest in Saskatoon (OCA - Orthodox Church in America)

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(Source. OCA - Orthodox Church in America). SASKATOON, SK, CANADA [OCA] ... His Eminence, Archbishop Irénée of Ottawa and Canada presided at his Funeral and the Divine Liturgy that preceded interment ... His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon and Archbishop Irénée concelebrated the Panikhida and Divine Liturgy at Toronto's Christ the Savior Cathedral on October 12-13, after which Archimandrite Alexander's body was transferred to Saskatoon ... (noodl....

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