liturgy
noun
Examples of liturgy in a Sentence
Christopher Lamb, CNN, 31 Mar. 2024
Some also attend special church services and prayer vigils, or a Good Friday liturgy Friday evening.
—Marina Johnson, The Indianapolis Star, 19 Mar. 2024
This liturgy, in which the priest and congregation face east together, was celebrated by Roman Catholics until the Mass of Paul VI was introduced in 1969 and the Traditional Latin Mass was greatly restricted.
—Patrick Neas, Kansas City Star, 29 Mar. 2024
This Sunday, Christians around the world will celebrate the peace and renewal promised by Easter, but at the heart of Holy Week liturgies leading up to the feast are a set of texts that have had brutal consequences for Jews, not just in the past, but in the present.
—James Carroll, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2024
Marshall was confirmed at Saint Katherine of Alexandria Episcopal Church at Mosher and Division streets, a congregation that followed the formal Anglo-Catholic liturgies.
—Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 3 Feb. 2024
Encompassing different oral and written styles, the Pyramid Texts likely were funerary liturgies that priests would have uttered to help the royal deceased reach an afterlife in the sky.
—Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Oct. 2023
The focus is usually on pets, though St. John the Divine’s Episcopal service is especially spectacular, with all kinds of creatures participating in a liturgy that includes a procession into the sanctuary, followed by blessings of individual animals outside.
—Mary Dzon, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2023
Prayers for sustenance are part of the liturgy, alongside those for peace, long life and forgiveness.
—Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2023
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Word History
Late Latin liturgia, from Greek leitourgia public service, from Greek (Attic) leïton public building (from Greek laos — Attic leōs — people) + -ourgia -urgy
1560, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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