The Eastern Orthodox receive the Septuagint as the textual basis for the entire Old Testament, in books both protocanonical and deuteroncanonical, to be used both in the Greek for liturgical purposes, and as the basis for translations in to the vernacular.

The name has been extended to books which contain in one volume, or at least in one work, liturgical books of different kinds, such as the Psalter, the Antiphonary, the Responsoriary, the Lectionary, etc.

Jean Beleth, a 12th-century liturgical author, gives the following list of books necessary for the right conduct of the canonical office: the Antiphonarium, the Old and New Testaments, the Passionarius ( liber ) and the Legendarius ( dealing respectively with martyrs and saints ), the Homiliarius ( homilies on the Gospels ), the Sermologus ( collection of sermons ) and the works of the Fathers, besides, of course, the Psalterium and the Collectarium.

Prayer books, unlike books of prayers, contain the words of structured ( or liturgical ) services of worship.

These churches at first used and then revised the use of the Prayer Book, until they, like their parent, produced prayer books which took into account the developments in liturgical study and practice in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which come under the general heading of the Liturgical Movement.

Most liturgical books came with a calendar in the front.

According to more recent studies, the oldest liturgical books indicate that the saint honoured on 30 May was a little-known martyr buried on the Via Aurelia, who was mistakenly identified with Pope Felix I, an error similar to but less curious than the identification in the liturgical books, until the mid-1950s, of the martyr saint celebrated on 30 July with the antipope Felix II.

During the 20th century, Presbyterians were offered optional use of liturgical books:

The publishing works established by Archbishop Gavril Bănulescu-Bodoni were able to produce books and liturgical works in Moldavian between 1815-1820.

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It was home to several famous scholars, including Notker of Liège, Notker the Stammerer, Notker Labeo and Hartker ( who developed the antiphonal liturgical books for the Abbey ).

An official targum was in fact unnecessary for Ketuvim because its books played no fixed liturgical role.

As part of the preparation for the mission, in 862 / 863, the Glagolitic alphabet was created and the most important prayers and liturgical books, including the Aprakos Evangeliar ( a Gospel Book lectionary containing only feast-day and Sunday readings ), the Psalter, and Acts of the Apostles, were translated.

While Agricola was in Wittenberg, he translated three smaller liturgical books into Finnish.

These books are used as a more expansively Catholic context in which to celebrate the liturgical use found in the Book of Common Prayer and related liturgical books.

Other books, both liturgical and not, continued to be illuminated at all periods.

Wealthy people often had richly illuminated " books of hours " made, which set down prayers appropriate for various times in the liturgical day.

Certain high church services and other musical events in liturgical churches ( such as the Roman Catholic Mass and the Lutheran Divine Service ) may be a cappella, a practice remaining from apostolic times.

When not celebrating Mass but still serving a liturgical function, such as the semiannual Urbi et Orbi papal blessing, some Papal Masses and some events at Ecumenical Councils, cardinal deacons can be recognized by the dalmatics they would don with the simple white mitre ( so called mitra simplex ).

Over the last two thousand years variations have emerged among the traditional liturgical customs of different Jewish communities, such as Ashkenazic, Sephardic, Yemenite, Hassidic, and others, however the differences are minor compared with the commonalities.

While early motets were liturgical or sacred, by the end of the thirteenth century the genre had expanded to include secular topics, such as courtly love.

Renewal and rediscovery of old liturgical traditions, such as the reintroduction of the Easter Vigil, and, a more structured atmosphere within the Church buildings.

Principal liturgical forms which endured throughout the entire Renaissance period were masses and motets, with some other developments towards the end, especially as composers of sacred music began to adopt secular forms ( such as the madrigal ) for their own designs.

The RA has also published liturgical texts for other days on the Jewish calendar, such as Megillat Hashoah: The Holocaust Scroll for Yom Ha-shoah and Siddur Tishah B ’ Av for the fast day of Tishah B ’ Av.

Many Jews extend this prohibition to some of the other names listed below, and will add additional sounds to alter the pronunciation of a name when using it outside of a liturgical context, such as replacing the " h " with a " k " in names of God such as " kel " and " elokI'm " or more accurately el-o-heem.

In most cases, congregations also use other elements of liturgical worship, such as candles, vestments, paraments, banners, and liturgical art.

For centuries these were a major feature of the liturgical calendar, particularly of the Catholic Church, and some are still observed, though the number of such octaves has now been radically reduced.

Although the rendering of the Tetragrammaton as " Yahweh " is found in the Old Testament of versions such as the Roman Catholic Jerusalem Bible, and New Jerusalem Bible ( 1985 ), the liturgical use of Yahweh in vernarcular worship was reprobated by the Vatican in 2008.

In addition to leading of singing in which the congregation participates, such as hymns and service music, some church choirs still sing full liturgies, including propers ( introit, gradual, communion antiphons appropriate for the different times of the liturgical year ).

The term libretto is also sometimes used to refer to the text of major liturgical works, such as Mass, requiem, and sacred cantata, or the story line of a ballet.

While there is no difference between the official dress of archbishops, as such, and that of other bishops, Roman Catholic metropolitan archbishops are distinguished by the use in liturgical ceremonies of the pallium, but only within the province over which they have oversight.

Likewise, these Traditional Catholic religious observances may further be understood from Cultural Catholicism in Cajun-Creole Louisiana by Marcia Gaudet which tells us that such traditional religious observances, although they may not be " strictly theological and liturgical forms ", are still integral and necessary to many and remain religiously valid as " unofficial religious customs and traditions are certainly a part of Roman Catholicism as it is practiced ".

* Some, such as the original members of the Oxford Movement, use official Anglican liturgical texts such as the Book of Common Prayer.

Beside these documents, authorised liturgical formularies, such as Prayer Book and Ordinal, are normative.

They are usually self-sufficient, earning money by selling jams or candies or baked goods by mail order, or by making liturgical items ( such as vestments, candles, or hosts to be Consecrated at Mass for Holy Communion ).

Countertenors, though rarely described as such, therefore found a prominent part in liturgical music, whether singing a line alone or with boy trebles or altos ; ( in Spain there was a long tradition of male falsettists singing soprano lines ).

The Gloria is omitted during liturgical seasons calling for penitence, such as Advent and Lent, both generally having the liturgical color violet, but is used on feasts falling during such seasons, as well as on Holy Thursday.

In the liturgical calendar of the Catholic Church, November 9 is the feast of the Dedication of the Basilica of St. John Lateran ( Dedicatio Basilicae Lateranensis ), often referred to in older missals as the Dedication of the Basilica of St. Saviour ( or the holy Saviour ).

* liturgical works ( missals, breviaries, lectionaries ) of the Roman Catholic Church from Dubrovnik, 15th and 16th century ( the most famous is a printed breviary from 1520 )

It never occurs in the principal liturgical books, the missals and breviaries.

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The Sunday within the Octave of Christmas is a liturgical celebration in the Tridentine rite of the Roman Catholic Church which, in missals before 1962, takes place on either December 29, December 30, or December 31.