Welcome to our fourth episode in the Catholic Mass series.

Last week we saw what the liturgy meant from a literal and a historic sense.

This week's episode is the second part of this same episode where we'll continue to investigate what the liturgy means.

But this time, we'll see the purpose of the liturgy, how God needs to be present for it to be a

liturgy, and why it's so important that it has an exterior and a social aspect. In other words,

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Now let's join Father William McGilvery for the Catholic Mass, episode four, the Liturgy

Explained, part two.

There is one last little thing from St. Thomas, although it's at the risk of prolonging

this unduly, but St. Thomas does speak, so we were, there were, One last little thing from Saint Thomas, although it's at the risk of prolonging this on duly.

But St. Thomas does speak.

So we were, they were treating of liturgy primarily as an act of religion and so on.

But there's also the legal aspect of liturgy that is liturgy to be duly performed must be performed in accordance with the legislation of legitimate public

authority, which in the New Testament is the authority of the church. And St. Thomas does speak

of this in passing under his question on superstition, which is not what we think about

necessarily like, oh, a black cat crossed the road, therefore I'm going to something bad is going to happen.

But superstition in the technical sense, as it's used by St. Thomas, refers to excess in the worship of God or error,

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