The first is called the liturgy of the Word and the second the Eucharistic liturgy ... The books of the Old Testament are written mostly in Hebrew, several in Greek and a few in Aramaic. The books of ...

It is not surprising, then, that human words and the human voice play vital roles in the Sacred Liturgy. The words used by the priest and the congregation are in fact essential because they ...

The liturgy used by the church in Alexandria in Egypt is attributed to St. Mark the evangelist. This church became known as the Coptic church because Copt is the Arabic and Greek word for Egyptian.

If Kazantzakis’ work is to be described in one word, it would be a Greek word, of course, and that is pathos ... Metropolitan Church of Heraklion where the funeral took place with an open casket for a ...

The Greek word 'ekklesia' was not invented by Christians ... People talk of "High Church" to mean churches with an emphasis on ceremony, liturgy and tradition, sometimes in the Anglican context also ...

Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, talks with OSV News during his 2025 visit to the U.S. from Ukraine.

Many Greeks recall the speeches in English — peppered with Greek-origin words and phrases — given by economist and politician Xenophon Zolotas in the late 1950s. Zolotas was director of the Bank of ...

This word has appeared in 78 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence? By The Learning Network This word has appeared in three articles on NYTimes.com in the past year.

As the liturgy has it ... In the original Greek, the news of Easter morning could be put in a single word: ēgerthē (ἠγέρθη)—“He has risen” (Matt. 28:6). Yet this one word ...

As those in power who seek only their own interest and gain continue seeking to instill panoptical fear so that the fearful ...

Koine Greek was the language of the common man (the Greek word, Koine means common) during Greece’s Hellenistic period. It was widely used as the language of the eastern Mediterranean during the New ...