A form of worship service laid down in advance and often taking the form of a standard pattern.
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Why didn't Syriac Christianity keep Aramaic as their liturgical language?
Syriac Christianity (as well as with other oriental orthodoxy denominations) today use Arabic as their liturgical language. It is known that they have been using Arabic since the times of Muslim ...
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Why do we use the order “Father, Son, and Holy Spirit”?
The three persons of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are united in an undivided Trinity, in which all are equal in stature, according to orthodox trinitarian Christianity. Given that our language is ...
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How do Methodists understand the Apostle's Creed?
In Methodist churches, I usually see the following:
I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy catholic church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of ...
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What place do ritual and ceremony have in the church today? (Liturgical POV)
I've already asked this to get a non-liturgical point of view and now I would like to see an answer from a liturgical Protestant, Catholic, or Orthodox view.
Scripture, especially in the Old ...
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What place do ritual and ceremony have in the church today? (Non-Liturgical POV)
Scripture, especially in the Old Testament, goes into great detail about the specific ways of doing certain worship-related things. For example, The ordination of Aaron is a highly ritualized ...
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Justification of Offertories according to the Regulative Principle of Worship
I was in a church today that considers itself to hold strictly to the regulative principle of worship (that which is not explicitly commanded for public worship in Scripture is implicitly condemned) ...
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When did Arabic enter into usage as a liturgical language among Orthodox Christians?
Today, many Orthodox churches in the Middle East use Arabic as the language of the Divine Liturgy, often mingled with Greek. When did this practice begin?
I assume that at the time of the Muslim ...
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What service is more 'important' in Orthodox Christianity?
If you can go to one as an Orthodox Christian, which one would be better to attend?
Holy Thursday - 12 Gospels or
Holy Friday - Lamentations
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Why don't we dance?
At my old church (PCA) occasionally there would be a few women who would dance at the front of the sanctuary. Later, after leaving the church, I began to feel a little bit biased against that dancing ...
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Is it fair to say that Baptists have a liturgy?
One distinctive of Baptists and many other congregational churches is that they have no proscribed method of worship. Unlike, say, an Episcopalian or a Roman Catholic, there is no prayer book and no ...
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What's the new rite in Tantum Ergo?
St. Thomas Aquinas' Hymn Tantum Ergo, which is usually sung at Benediction always seems better in Latin:
Et antiquum documentum
Novo cedat ritui:
Mainly because in both the transliterated and ...
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How are passages vetted for inclusion in officially sanctioned liturgical readings?
Inspired by this question, I am very interested to find out how specific passages are "vetted" for inclusion into official church liturgical use?
I realize this process may be different for Roman ...
