''Ecclesia orans: Periodica de Scientiis Liturgicis'' is a

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on all aspects of

Christian liturgy Christian liturgy is a pattern for Christian worship, worship used (whether recommended or prescribed) by a Christian congregation or Christian denomination, denomination on a regular basis. The term liturgy comes from Greek and means "public work ...

published by the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Liturgy of

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. The journal was established in 1984 by

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and

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and appeared triannually. Some sources identify an earlier publication of the same name published at the

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in 1918. It was the second in a two-part series, which provided a rereading of the sources of the liturgical tradition from historical, theological, and pastoral perspectives. Since 2013, ''Ecclesia orans'' has been published biannually. The

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is Markus Tymister (

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). Articles are published in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.

Editors-in-chief

The following persons are or have been editors-in chief: *

OSB (1984-1996) *

OSB (1997) *Cassian Folsom OSB (1997-1998) *Ephrem Carr OSB (1999-2012) *Pietro Angelo Muroni (2012–2018) *Markus Tymister (2018–present)

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in the ATLA Religion Database and in 2012 and 2014 in

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* *{{ISSN, 1010-3872 1984 establishments in Italy Biannual journals Academic journals established in 1984 Multilingual journals