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.

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 ...

Please/You're welcome: Παρακαλώ (para-kah-LOE) In Greek, learning to say "Please" and "You're welcome" is easy because it's the same word. It's polite to say Παρακαλώ (para-kah-LOE ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Greek culture excelled, preserved, and spread as a culture of the written word and as a culture of extremely important written texts. For this very reason, we must respect this language, recognize its ...

One of the best feelings in the world, without question, is LOVE. We use the word “love” in many different contexts- the love for our parents, best friend, romantic partner, grandparent, sibling, job, ...