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So far, in my usual Western Christisn context, the word liturgy has usually referred to how a service or mass is arranged. What is said, sung and done. What's in the book, but also things like timing. How the priests performs the elevation (if at all). Mass celebrated versus populum (facing the people) or ad orientem (facing east). Procession or no procession. What prayers and hymns are used. Etc.
Now, in this new context, liturgy usually means "divine liturgy". But there are also other services. So what do you say, if if you want to discuss differences in the services that, for instance, Greeks and Russians perform on Saturday nights which aren't, in Orthodox terminology, actually liturgies? I would have called them liturgical differences. But can I say that, in Orthodox context?
Now, in this new context, liturgy usually means "divine liturgy". But there are also other services. So what do you say, if if you want to discuss differences in the services that, for instance, Greeks and Russians perform on Saturday nights which aren't, in Orthodox terminology, actually liturgies? I would have called them liturgical differences. But can I say that, in Orthodox context?