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  2. Liturgy of Preparation - Wikipedia

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    The Liturgy of Preparation, also Prothesis (Ancient Greek: Πρόθεσις, lit. 'a setting forth') [ 1 ] or Proskomedia ( Προσκομιδή Proskomidē 'an offering, an oblation'), is the name given in the Eastern Orthodox Church [ note 1 ] to the act of preparing the bread and wine for the Eucharist .

  3. Prosphora - Wikipedia

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    The Lamb and particles placed on the diskos during the Divine Liturgy. In the part of the Divine Liturgy known as the Liturgy of Preparation (Proskomedia), a cube is cut from the center of the prosphoron, and is referred to as the Lamb (Ancient Greek: Ἀμνός, romanized: Amnos).

  4. Hieromartyr - Wikipedia

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    Hieromartyrs do not constitute a special rank of saint and are commemorated at the Divine Liturgy together with other martyrs. In the Eastern Orthodox Church , at the proskomedia , for them, as for other martyrs, the fifth particle is removed from the nine-part prosphora .

  5. Lamb (liturgy) - Wikipedia

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    the Lamb placed on the diskos during the Proskomedie.To the left are other prosphora which will be used during the service.. The Lamb (Greek: άμνος, romanized: amnos; Church Slavonic: Агнецъ, romanized: agnets) is the square portion of bread cut from the prosphora in the Liturgy of Preparation at the Divine Liturgy in the Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic churches.

  6. Real presence of Christ in the Eucharist - Wikipedia

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    The Council of Trent, held 1545–1563 in reaction to the Protestant Reformation and initiating the Catholic Counter-Reformation, promulgated the view of the presence of Christ in the Eucharist as true, real, and substantial, and declared that, "by the consecration of the bread and of the wine, a conversion is made of the whole substance of the bread into the substance (substantia) of the body ...

  7. Liturgy (ancient Greece) - Wikipedia

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    Honorific decree of the deme of Aixone, commemorating the choregoi Auteas and Philoxenides 312/313 BC.Epigraphical Museum of Athens.. The liturgy (Greek: λειτουργία or λῃτουργία, leitourgia, from λαός / Laos, "the people" and the root ἔργο / ergon, "work" [1]) was in ancient Greece a public service established by the city-state whereby its richest members (whether ...

  8. Eastern Orthodox worship - Wikipedia

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    The Divine Liturgy is the Sunday worship service of the Eastern Orthodox Church. There are several forms of the liturgy: the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, Liturgy of St. Basil, Liturgy of St. Mark, Liturgy of St. James, Liturgy of St. Gregory the Great, Liturgy of St. Tikhon of Moscow, and the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts. The ...

  9. Liturgy - Wikipedia

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    Liturgy is the customary public ritual of worship performed by a religious group. [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 .