Religion: Similarities Between Liturgy And Religion

The liturgy is an ancient form of religious celebration of the mystery surrounding Christ (Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, 2005). The celebration with obvious religious connotations does not possess a name with such religious-bound roots. The term liturgy is derived from the ancient Greek word 'letourgia', meaning public work (Senn, 2012). The practise of communal celebration is one which occurs throughout the religions. Despite superficial similarities between the practises, each faith has its own characteristic rituals within the liturgy such as the Buddhist liturgy's inclusion of meditation. Unlike such liturgical practises, traditions and other rites of worship such as prayer are an expression of religion experience and faith which …show more content…
Traditions and rituals encompass the centre of the liturgy, guiding the way in which the theme of 'strength in times of hardship' can be explored. One such ritual is the Christian worship of the holy spirit, a process stemming from Jewish tradition involves praising God through music, speech, scripture readings and prayers. The ritual of prayer was interwoven into our Christian liturgy with an opening prayer, concluding prayer, and the prayers of the faithful in-between. Christian prayer is a universal ritual completed in liturgies as a way of recognising the never-ceasing fire to bear witness to the glory of God. As part of this literary praise to God, a psalm of David exert was included as it is the summit of prayer in the Old Testament which sings of the glory of God and his creations. This process of communal prayer, particularly that of the prayers of the faithful which required the communal response of "lord hear our prayer". The unity of the group the group responses was done to instil a sense of togetherness in the group, as we knew that all the participants would be slightly distant with the stress of year 12 interfering with their spiritual presence during the