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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 795 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LITURGY (See also:Low See also:Lat. liturgia; Gr. X€Zros, public, and Epyov, See also:work; )Aetrovpy6s, a public servant)  , in the technical See also:language of the See also:Christian See also:Church, the See also:order for the celebration and ad-ministration of the See also:Eucharist . In Eastern Christendom the See also:Greek word Xtirovpyia is used in this sense exclusively . But in See also:English-speaking countries the word " See also:liturgy " has come to be used in a more popular sense to denote any or all of the various services of the Church, whether contained in See also:separate volumes or See also:bound up together in the See also:form of a See also:Book of See also:Common See also:Prayer . In this See also:article the liturgy is treated in the former and stricter sense . (For the See also:ancient Athenian Xeirovpyiai, as forms of See also:taxation, see See also:FINANCE.) In order to understand terms and references it will be convenient to give the See also:tabular form the See also:chief component parts of a liturgy, selecting the Liturgy of See also:Rome as characteristic of Western, and that of See also:Constantinople as characteristic of Eastern, Christendom; at the same See also:time appending an explanation of some of the technical words which must be employed in enumerating those parts .

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