The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1384 page)

Liturgical Colours
.

Christian practice, beginning to be regularized from about 12th cent., of specifying particular colours for vestments and altar hangings, according to the season in the W. Church's year, on the occasion of a particular day. Thus white is generally commended for the two festival periods, Christmas to the Sunday after Epiphany, and from Easter Day to Pentecost Week, for days celebrating saints, and for Trinity Sunday; red for Pentecost Week, Holy Week, days commemorating martyrs, and sometimes for
confirmation
and
ordination
; violet/purple during Advent and Lent, and (if black is not used) for funerals and the commemoration of All Souls; and green on other occasions.

 
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Liturgical Movement
.

A 20th-cent. movement in W. Churches to revitalize liturgical worship and give the congregation a more active part in it. It began among RC religious communities (often dated from an address by
Benedictine
L. Beauduin in 1909) with efforts to make assembly for worship the main place where people learn and grow in faith.

 
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(Gk.,
leitourgia
, from
laos
, ‘people’, +
ergon
, ‘work’). Worship according to prescribed forms, as opposed to private devotions; hence ‘the liturgy’, the form of such worship.
In Christian use the word may refer to all the services of the Church (but not usually to those of Protestant churches). Most specifically, however, and especially in E. Churches, it is a title of the
eucharist
or of a particular text of this service (e.g. the Liturgy of St John
Chrysostom
, of St Basil, of St James, etc.).

 
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Liturgy of the Presanctified
.

Ancient form of Christian
liturgy
(sometimes called the Liturgy of St Gregory Dialogos, i.e.
Gregory the Great
), which continues particularly in E. Christianity. It is celebrated on Wednesdays and Fridays in
Lent
and on the first three days of
Holy Week
. There is no prayer of consecration: the congregation may receive the
antidoron
and perhaps the reserved sacrament.

 
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Liu-tsu-ta-shih
(Jap., Rokuso Daishi)
.

Honorific title for
Hui-neng
, often used instead of his name in works about him.

 
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Liu-Tsu-Ta-Shih Fa-Pao-T’an-Ching/T’an-ching
(Jap.,
Rokuso daishi h
b
dan-gyo, Dan-gyo
)
.