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Liturgy
Customary public worship performed by a religious group / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Liturgist" redirects here. For the academic discipline, see Liturgics.
For other uses, see Liturgy (disambiguation).
Liturgy is the customary public ritual of worship performed by a religious group. Liturgy can also be used to refer specifically to public worship by Christians.[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. It forms a basis for establishing a relationship with God.
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Technically speaking, liturgy forms a subset of ritual. The word liturgy, sometimes equated in English as "service", refers to a formal ritual enacted by those who understand themselves to be participating in an action with the divine.
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