h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

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It is in Acts 13:2 that liturgy is used for corporate worship, and thus takes on the specific meaning that it came to hold in the early church. As Dom Gregory Dix points out, the worship service is so described in the very first description of such a service now extant, the letter of Clement of Rome to the Corinthian church, dating from 96 AD:

"Unto the high-priest (=celebrant-bishop) his special 'liturgies' have been appointed, and to the priests (=presbyters) their special place is assigned, and on the levites (=deacons) their special 'deaconings' are imposed; the layman is bound by the ordinances for the laity. Let each of you, brethren, make eucharist to God according to his own order, keeping a good conscience and not transgressing the appointed rule of his 'liturgy.'"[3]

http://www.visi.com/~contra_m/cm/features/cm12_language.html

[3] Quoted in Dom Gregory Dix, The Shape of the Liturgy (London: A & C Black, 1986 [1945]), p. 1.

http://www.liturgica.com/html/lit.jsp?hostname=null

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A841637

http://www.ctsfw.edu/bsmith-cts/etext/luther/hymns/homl/

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07620a.htm

The Iconoclasts

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