Q318
What is the name of the service during which the Mystery of Communion is consecrated?
Orthodox Christians use the term Liturgy, specifically, the Divine Liturgy for the service in which the Eucharist is celebrated by the people of God, gathered as church around their bishop, presbyters, and deacons. “Liturgy” transliterates the Greek leitourgia, used several times in the New Testament for “priestly service” or “ministry.”
There is one Divine Liturgy, of which Jesus Christ is the Mediator and great High Priest: “Christ has obtained a ministry (leitourgias) which is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises” (Heb 8:6).
