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I realize my pontifcations seem to chronically fall short of the registration I might grandiosely hope for on a variety of intellects.
And I recognize that by many traditions within Israelite culture, God chose Hebrew as a sacred language etc. etc. etc.
Courtesy of Merriam Webster’s website.
LITURGY:
Etymology: Late Latin liturgia, from Greek leitourgia public service, from Greek (Attic) leïton public building (from Greek laos -- Attic leOs -- people) + -ourgia –urgy
1 often capitalized : a eucharistic rite
2 : a rite or body of rites prescribed for public worship
3 : a customary repertoire of ideas, phrases, or observances
LITURGICAL
1 : of, relating to, or having the characteristics of liturgy
2 : using or favoring the use of liturgy
UHHHHHH, Perhaps you could point out to me . . .
WHERE
In the Sermon on The Mount did Christ display HIS preference for liturgical anything?
Or maybe it was with the woman caught in adultery?
Perhaps in Gethsemene?
Maybe walking on Gallilee?
Maybe sleeping in the boat?
Oh, I know—making water into wine. Wellll, maybe not. “Go fill some water jars” is hardly very LITURGICAL.
Perhaps with the woman at the well? “Yeah, I know, you’ve had 5 husbands.” Naw. That’s not very LITURGICAL either.
On the road to Emmaus? Naw, He was just reviewing some prophecies about Himself. Hardly very LITURGICAL.
Oh, when He told Peter to cast their nets on the other side of the boat? Naw, that’s not very LITURGICAL either.
AHHHHH! ON THE MOUNT OF TRANSFIGURATION! Naw. That was DADDY and HE seemed to be a bit peeved.
Maybe He was LITURGICAL when they were hiding in Egypt and he was playing cowboys and camels with the locals. Naw, that’s not very logical.
Come to think of it . . . I don’t think CHRIST was LITURGICAL in Hebrew or Aramaic. If anything, He evidenced an AVOIDANCE of such things.
Now, THE PHARISEES—I could imagine them being
VERY
LITURGICAL
Even attending to their toilets . . . or pretending to be.
So, are you saying that you believe that the RC &/or Orthy hierarchies are proudly in the tradition of the LITURGICAL PHARISEES?
That I could believe.
The short answer to your silly reply is NO, the Protestants are actually the proud inheritors of the Pharisees, sans liturgy.
The rest of your comment shows, it appears, ignorance of Judaism since you must be the only person in the world who denies that Judaism is a liturgical religion. All elements of the Jewish liturgy are contained in Eucharistic services, including the benediction and sacrifice/offering, and standing when the Torah/Gospel is read.
Jewish sacrifices and offerings to God can be made only in the Temple, so until that time when the Temple is rebuilt, Judaism will not practice animal slaughter at the altar, but will most certainly resume such practice when the Temple is rebuilt.
Sermon on the Mount (I had to laugh that you would even mention such an event and try to connect it to the liturgy) was not a synagogue or a Temple service. Public religious services are structured and include readings, prayers, benediction and sacrifice/offering in a structured manner. Eucharistic services are carryovers from Judaism (not Pharisaical Judaism only, for the Sadducees were the priests of the Temple leading the service, and the Essenes made offerings of the cup and had a communal meal), which the early Christians practiced as Jewish services.
Evidence of that can be found in Didache (c. 70 AD).