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Handbook for Liturgical Studies, Volume I: Introduction to the Liturgy is unavailable, but you can change that!

More than 40 authors from Asia, Africa, Latin America, North America, and Eastern and Western Europe have contributed to the Handbook. Many are professors and graduates of the Pontifical Liturgical Institute in Rome. Each author, while drawing material from liturgical tradition and from ancient, medieval, and modern sources, also writes from a particular research and personal interest in a...

, O.S.B. The word “liturgy” is etymologically derived from the Greek words λαός (people) and ἔργον (work). Thus the immediate meaning of the compound word λειτουργία is public works or state projects. Indirectly it also refers to the public office one undertakes. In the course of time, during the Hellenistic period, the word acquired a broader meaning to include the work done by slaves for their masters and even the
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