Definition of "liturgy" []

• A prescribed form or set of forms for public religious worship. (noun)
• Christianity The sacrament of the Eucharist. (noun)

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• "Lynn Bauman explains, The term liturgy comes from the language of the New Testament itself."
• "One of the things that this pope represents is a kind of traditionalism in what they call the liturgy, which is the mass and the music."
• "And, it should never be forgotten that the actual clothing of the liturgy is a clothing of sanctity: it finds expression, in fact, in the holiness of God."