Sentence examples for Liturgy from inspiring English sources
The word "Liturgy" is correct in written English
It is typically used in religious contexts to refer to a prescribed form or set of rituals for public worship. Example: "The church service began with the traditional liturgy, which included prayers and hymns."
noun
A predetermined or prescribed set of rituals that are performed, usually by a religion.
Over three hours, the liturgy was almost entirely in Latin, as were the hymns sung by a choir of monks accompanied by a nun on an electric organ.
It wasn't, strictly speaking, a wedding but it certainly looked and felt like one, with a highly traditional liturgy complete with choirs, familiar hymns, and an exchange of rings and vows.
It is affiliated with the Greek Catholic church, which is under the Pope's authority but uses Orthodox liturgy.
This echoes the role played in Poland under communism by Catholic intellectuals, who maintained a more or less independent academic life that both undermined communism and helped to foster democracy after it had fallen.In western Ukraine, the Uniate Church (which uses Orthodox liturgy, but obeys Rome) has played an important role in restoring academic life.
The active-investment sect has its elaborate rituals and language, with a liturgy ("information ratios" and "alpha generation") as baffling to the layman as the Latin mass was to the medieval peasant.
Until that point, fondness for the traditional liturgy could blight a priest's career.
Did the real Charlemagne understand the importance of Italy better than The Economist's?As for Fathers Kohl and Prodi, they might sometimes hotly discuss certain questions of liturgy.
In 1972 a San Francisco congregation established the St John Coltrane African Orthodox Church, basing its liturgy on his music and his example.By that time Davis had begun his transformation from jazz immortal to cultural icon.
Instead of praise-and-worship music, there was hymn-singing in a beer garden and a bluegrass liturgy presided over by a tattooed female Lutheran minister.
