Why do some Catholics use the term "Liturgy" instead of the word "Mass"?

Answer 1

Liturgy is any Catholic religious ritual. It can be a Mass, a wedding, a baptism, or a funeral.

The Mass is actually made of two smaller parts, the Liturgy of the Word and the Liturgy of the Eucharist.

So Mass is a Liturgy, and Liturgies.

It is like telling your spouse that you are going to the store. It can be the grocery store, the department store, or a jewelry store.

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

Mass is the term used to describe celebration of the Eucharist in the Western liturgical rites of the Roman Catholic Church, in the Anglo-Catholic tradition of Anglicanism, and in some largely High Church Lutheran regions: in Scandinavian countries the Lutheran Eucharistic service is also known as "the Mass".

The term is derived from the late-Latin word missa (dismissal), a word used in the concluding formula of Mass in Latin: "Ite, missa est" ("Go, the dismissal is made") [1].

For the celebration of the Eucharist in Eastern Churches, including those in full communion with Rome, other terms, such as "The Divine Liturgy", the Holy Qurbana, and the Badarak are normally used. Western Churches not in full communion with the Roman Catholic Church also usually prefer terms other than "Mass." For information on the theology of the Eucharist and on the eucharistic liturgy of other Christian Churches, see Eucharist and Eucharistic theology.

Answer 3

Both the words 'Mass' " & 'Liturgy' are synonyms.

As per the answers on the Internet, the term 'MASS' was more prevalent in the western churches and term 'liturgy' in the Eastern Churches.

Answer 4

Liturgy (leitourgia) is a Greek composite word meaning originally a public duty, a service to the state undertaken by a citizen.

Its elements are leitos (from leos = laos, people) meaning public, and ergo (obsolete in the present stem, used in future erxo, etc.), to do.

From this we have leitourgos, "a man who performs a public duty", "a public servant", often used as equivalent to the Roman lictor; then leitourgeo, "to do such a duty", leitourgema, its performance, and leitourgia, the public duty itself.

At Athens the leitourgia was the public service performed by the wealthier citizens at their own expense, such as the office of gymnasiarch, who superintended the gymnasium, that of choregus, who paid the singers of a chorus in the theatre, that of the hestiator, who gave a banquet to his tribe, of the trierarchus, who provided a warship for the state.

The meaning of the word liturgy is then extended to cover any general service of a public kind. In the Septuagint it (and the verb leitourgeo) is used for the public service of the temple (e. g., Exodus 38:27; 39:12, etc.).

Thus it comes to have a religious sense as the function of the priests, the ritual service of the temple (e. g., Joel, i, 9; ii, 17, etc.).

Answer 5

Liturgy refers to a body of rituals.

Mass refers to a specific ritual --- the celebration of the Eucharist.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

They're are synonyms same way some people say head phones and some people say earphones. Now if you could quit asking dump questions.
Ps
I am Catholic, And I say mass.

Answer 8

It makes them feel more intelligent. We know the truth though.

Answer 9

I always thought they were synonyms

Answer 10

i dont know im Christian