Prescribed forms for church services

Usage examples of liturgy.

The Church at Milan maintains the Ambrosian liturgy to the present date.

Living religious traditions begin to degenerate when their followers replace effective spiritual purification, attentional training, and contemplative inquiry with sterile liturgies, ritualistic meditations, and contemplative exercises pursued with the sense that the practitioner already knows their outcome.

It has auricular confession, dogmas, and symbols, esoteric and exoteric versions of the doctrine, converts and apostates, priests and scholastics, a whole ritual of exorcism, and a liturgy of mantle.

He was about to tell this chaplain that the liturgy of traditional Anglicanism was superior to that of reformed Papistry when the chaplain turned his face towards the entrance with mouth open in joy.

John the Precentor, who introduced the Roman liturgy into this country, bequeathed a number of valuable books to Wearmouth.

They contend for a spiritual creed and a spiritual worship: we have a Calvinistic creed, a Popish liturgy, and an Arminian clergy.

While the Columban brothers conformed to a monastic rule that was not unlike the one with which the Templars were familiar, based on Cistercian and Benedictine usage, their meditations and spiritual disciplines and even the liturgies they held in common with the rest of the Church Universal all breathed an air of liberation.

I was a willing slave of the liturgy of officialdom, a petty bureaucrat of Genesis, a chubby schoolboy transformed into a lowly clerk of the Decalogue brought up to date by the administrative grace of Red Tape.

They found fault with all that had been retained in the Prayer Book for which there was no direct warrant in Scripture, and many of them began to use, in secret conventicles, the Genevan instead of the English liturgy.

Split at which it was decided to prohibit the Slav language in liturgy and the Glagolitic script, and to support only the Latin language and script.

Mother Hilaria encouraged us to design our own Rule, write our own liturgy, choose our own dress.

Amatl mind, ancient Mesoamerican beliefs were so intertwined with Catholic liturgy as to be one indivisible belief.

It might be the last time he attended in single state to hear the liturgy: he was soon to marry Sibylla of Burgundy.

He was about to tell this chaplain that the liturgy of traditional Anglicanism was superior to that of reformed Papistry when the chaplain turned his face towards the entrance with mouth open in joy.

War on Sunday, on the old calendar and on fasting, obligatory rest on the décadi under penalty of fine and imprisonment,[92] obligatory fêtes on the anniversaries of January 21 and Fructidor 18, participation of all functionaries with their cult, obligatory attendance of public and private instructors with their pupils of both sexes at civic ceremonies, an obligatory liturgy with catechisms and programmes sent from Paris, rules for scenic display and for singings, readings, postures, acclamations and imprecations.