What is the Liturgy in simple terms? The most important Divine Liturgy is the Divine Liturgy. The Divine Liturgy (from the Greek λειτουργία (liturgy) - a common cause) is the main Christian service during which the Sacrament of Communion or the Eucharist is performed (from the Greek εὐχαριστία (eucharist) - thanksgiving, gratitude). On it the great Sacrament is performed - the change of bread and wine into the Body and Blood of the Lord and the Communion of the faithful. Believers gather in the temple in order to glorify God together with “one mouth and one heart” and partake of the Holy Mysteries of Christ. The first Liturgy was served by our Lord Jesus Christ in the Upper Room of Zion, and each Liturgy is a mysterious continuation of this event.
Christ commanded His apostles to perform this Sacrament, and the apostles taught this to their successors - bishops and presbyters, priests. The original name of this Sacrament of Thanksgiving is the Eucharist (Greek). The public service at which the Eucharist is celebrated is called the liturgy (from the Greek litos - public and ergon - service, business). Liturgy is sometimes called mass, since it is usually supposed to be performed from dawn to noon, that is, in the pre-dinner time.
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Three types of Liturgy:
1. Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom is celebrated throughout the year, when it is not supposed to celebrate the other two liturgies.
2. Liturgy of St. Basil the Great takes place ten times a year: on all Sundays of Great Lent, excluding Palm Sunday; on Maundy Thursday and Saturday of Holy Week; January 14 (commemoration of St. Basil the Great) and on the eve or on the very day of the feasts of the Nativity of Christ and the Baptism of the Lord.
3. The Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts is celebrated on Great Lent:
Wednesdays and Fridays
Thursday of the 5th week of Great Lent
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of Holy Week,
in the days of St. John the Baptist (March 9 in a non-leap year, March 8 in a leap year) and the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste (March 22), if these holidays fall during Great Lent and do not fall on Sunday,
on the temple feast and on the feast of the revered saint (except for the feast of the Annunciation), which occurred during the specified period.
This liturgy is so called because at it they partake of the Holy Gifts consecrated earlier at the liturgy of John Chrysostom or Basil the Great.
The universal celebration of the Presanctified Liturgy on the days of the Holy Fortecost was approved by the 52nd canon of the Sixth Ecumenical Council, and has the goal not to deprive the faithful of mystical communion with the Lord and, at the same time, not to break fasting and repentance by celebrating a solemn full liturgy.
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