Ano ang LITURHIYA? The Nature of Liturgy (Catechism for Filipino Catholics) 1502 . Thanks to the liturgical renewal, we now appreciate the original meaning of the word as “the people’s work and public duty” (cf. CCC 1069f). “Liturgy” used to bring to mind “rubrics”, or what priests do around altar in ceremonial worship. But now we realize that in the early Church, liturgy meant everything that all Christians did in taking part in “God’s work,” the divine “plan to sum up all things in Christ” (cf. Jn 17:4; Eph 1:10). This included not only divine worship, but proclamation of the Gospel (cf. Rom 15:16) and service of one’s neighbor (cf. 2 Cor 9:12). Although “liturgy” today designates more properly the “official public worship of the Church,” these origins are important because they confirm PCP II’s stress on full, active participation of the whole People of God everyone and the essential inner connection of liturgy with socia...
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