Catholic liturgy

Schools Relations with: Catholic liturgy means the whole complex of official liturgical worship, including all the rites, ceremonies, prayers, and sacraments of the Church, as opposed to private devotions.

Liturgy (from Greek: leitourgia) is a composite word meaning originally a public duty, a service to the state undertaken by a citizen.

There it says: For the liturgy, "through which the work of our redemption is accomplished", most of all in the divine sacrifice of the Eucharist, is the outstanding means whereby the faithful may express in their lives, and manifest to others, the mystery of Christ and the real nature of the true Church.

[3] As a result, the Catholic understanding of liturgy is not primarily about the precise regulation of individual sequences of rites, but rather about the essence of the church.

The establishment of holy times for worship is part of the original structure of the liturgy, and observing them is considered a primary Christian duty.

They, as well as bishops, priests, deacons, are obliged to pray at least the main parts of the Liturgy of the Hours vicariously for the faithful.

[12] Musicam Sacram states: "One cannot find anything more religious and more joyful in sacred celebrations than a whole congregation expressing its faith and devotion in song.

[17] To achieve full, active participation of the congregation, great restraint in introducing new hymns has proven most helpful.

[18] To this end also, the General Instruction of the Roman Missal recommends use of seasonal responsorial psalms and also keeping to a song that all can sing while processing to Communion, to "express the communicants' union in spirit by means of the unity of their voices, to show joy of heart, and to highlight more clearly the 'communitarian' nature of the procession to receive Communion".