Quebec French profanity uses references to Catholic liturgical terminology, rather than the references to prostitution that are more common in France.

The nine heirmoi, however, are metrically dissimilar ; consequently, an entire kanon comprises nine independent melodies ( eight, when the second ode is omitted ), which are united musically by the same mode and textually by references to the general theme of the liturgical occasion, and sometimes by an acrostic.

By the 13th century, Triodion liturgical books were combining references to icon veneration within hymns, e. g. "... to those who honor your holy image, O reverend one, and with one accord proclaim you as the true Mother of God and faithfully venerate you ".

While musical life was undoubtedly rich in the early Medieval era, as attested by artistic depictions of instruments, writings about music, and other records, the only repertory of music which has survived from before 800 to the present day is the plainsong liturgical music of the Roman Catholic Church, the largest part of which is called Gregorian chant.

As a result, Wine discarded virtually all previous Jewish liturgical writings.

Celebrations: A Ceremonial and Philosophic Guide for Humanists and Humanistic Jews is, as its name indicates, a compendium of Wine ’ s liturgical writings and “ meditations ,” intended for use at various holiday and life cycle ceremonies.

The writings of the Apostolic Fathers are in a number of genres, some, e. g. the writings of Clement of Rome are letters ( called epistles ), others relate historical events, e. g. the Martyrdom of Polycarp, and one ( the Didache ) is a guide for ethical and liturgical practice.

St. John the Baptist was probably carved over the other door of the templon of Hagia Sophia, since he features prominently in liturgical writings of the church.

A chumash contains the Torah and other writings, usually organised for liturgical use, and sometimes accompanied by some of the main classic commentary.

Yet the Didache, one of the earliest Christian writings on liturgical practices, mentions that baptism may occur by pouring water on the head three times using the trinitarian formula ( i. e., in the name of the father, the son and the holy spirit ).

Reference to Oriental monks must here be limited to those who have left a mark upon ecclesiastical literature: Leontius of Byzantium ( d. 543 ), author of a treatise against the Nestorians and Eutychians ; St. Sophronius, Patriarch of Jerusalem, one of the most vigorous adversaries of the Monothelite heresy ( P. G., LXXXVII, 3147-4014 ); St. Maximus the Confessor, Abbot of Chrysopolis ( d. 662 ), the most brilliant representative of Byzantine monasticism in the seventh century ; in his writings and letters St. Maximus steadily combated the partisans of the erroneous doctrines of Monothelitism ( ibid., XC and XCI ); St. John Damascene, who may perhaps be included among the Basilians ; St Theodore the Studite ( d. 829 ), the defender of the veneration of sacred images ; his works include theological, ascetic, hagiographical, liturgical, and historical writings ( P. G., XCIX ).

It also bears five inscriptions in Greek, which are yet to be explained but which archaeologists suppose are liturgical writings.

The Caeremoniale Episcoporum no longer makes mention of episcopal gloves, episcopal sandals, liturgical stockings ( also known as buskins ), or the accoutrements that it once prescribed for the bishop's horse.

However, the fact that the third chapter is written in a different style, as a liturgical piece, does not necessarily mean that Habakkuk was not also its author.

Both sides recognised the legitimacy and rightness, as expressions of the same faith, of the Assyrian Church's liturgical invocation of Mary as " the Mother of Christ our God and Saviour " and the Catholic Church's use of " the Mother of God " and also as " the Mother of Christ ".

Most Christian denominations have also replaced it with the Gregorian calendar as the basis for their liturgical calendars.

On the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar his feast day is September 22 also ( for those churches which follow the traditional Julian calendar, September 22 currently falls on October 5 of the modern Gregorian calendar ).

The most significant liturgical acts reserved to priests in these traditions are the administration of the Sacraments, including the celebration of the Holy Mass or Divine Liturgy ( the terms for the celebration of the Eucharist in the Latin and Byzantine traditions, respectively ), and the Sacrament of Reconciliation, also called Confession.

Christian traditions that retain the title of priest also retain the tradition of special liturgical vestments worn only during services.

The moderator presides over the session as primus inter pares and as moderator also serves a " liturgical " bishop over the ordination and installation of elders and deacons within a particular congregation.

Among the Paleo-orthodoxy and emerging church Presbyterians, clergy are moving away from the traditional black Geneva gown and reclaiming not only the more ancient Eucharist vestments of alb and chasuble, but also cassock and surplice ( typically a full length Old English style surplice which resembles the Celtic alb, an ungirdled liturgical tunic of the old Gallican Rite ).

Printing also favoured the spread of other liturgical texts of less certain orthodoxy.

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.

While tying it to one fixed date would serve to underline the belief that Easter commemorates an actual historical event, without an accompanying calendar reform it would also break the tradition of Easter always being on a Sunday, established since the 2nd century AD and by now deeply embedded in the liturgical practice and theological understanding of almost all Christian denominations.

The Congregation for the Oriental Churches ( Congregatio pro Ecclesiis Orientalibus ) is the congregation of the Roman Curia responsible for contact with the Eastern Catholic Churches for the sake of assisting their development, protecting their rights and also maintaining whole and entire in the one Catholic Church, alongside the liturgical, disciplinary and spiritual patrimony of the Latin Rite, the heritage of the various Oriental Christian traditions.

The Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments ( Congregatio de Cultu Divino et Disciplina Sacramentorum ) is the congregation of the Roman Curia that handles most affairs relating to liturgical practices of the Latin Catholic Church as distinct from the Eastern Catholic Churches and also some technical matters relating to the Sacraments.

The Eastern Orthodox also use LXX untranslated where Greek is the liturgical language, e. g. in the Orthodox Church of Constantinople, the Church of Greece and the Cypriot Orthodox Church.

The mahzor contains not only the basic liturgy, but also many piyutim, Hebrew liturgical poems.

The " Translatio " speaks only of a version of the Gospels by Cyril, and the " Vita Methodii " only of the " evangelium Slovenicum ," though other liturgical selections may also have been translated.

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

The Carnival season in Greece is also known as the Apokriés ( Greek: Αποκριές, " saying goodbye to meat "), or the season of the " Opening of the Triodion ", so named after the liturgical book used by the church from then until the Holy Week.

The Italo-Albanian Catholic Church has also never been out of communion with Rome, but, unlike the Maronite Church, it resembles Orthodox Church's liturgical rite.

This period of political breakdown and reorganization also saw the rise of written local vernaculars in place of the literary and liturgical Church Slavonic language, a further stage in the evolving differentiation between the Belarusian, Russian and Ukrainian languages.

The Sinhalese alphabet is an abugida used in Sri Lanka to write the official language Sinhala and also the liturgical languages Pali and Sanskrit.

The 1605 set also contains a number of miscellaneous items which fall outside the liturgical scheme of the main body of the set.

The date assigned for the liturgical celebration of Blessed John XXIII is not 3 June, the anniversary of his death, as would be usual, but 11 October, the anniversary of his opening of the Second Vatican Council.

The date of Samhain was later associated with the Catholic All Saints ' Day ( and later All Souls ' Day ) from at least the 8th century, and both the Gaelic and the Catholic liturgical festival have influenced the secular customs now connected with Halloween.

The date of Pascha affects the following liturgical seasons:

28 December is the date in the Church of England, the Lutheran Church and the Roman Catholic Church ( in which, except on Sunday, violet vestments were worn before 1961, instead of red, the normal liturgical colour for celebrating martyrs ).

An Orthodox believer, Gheorghe Eliade registered his son's birth four days before the actual date, to coincide with the liturgical calendar feast of the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste.

The " Peregrinatio ", which gives the liturgical order as practised at Jerusalem and the date of which is probably the 4th century, calls it Lichnicon.

The oldest preserved relics of musical culture in Croatia are sacral in nature and represented by Latin medieval liturgical chant manuscripts ( approximately one hundred musical codices and fragments dating from the 11th to the 15th centuries have been preserved to date ).

The September date is often referred to in the West as Holy Cross Day ; the May date was dropped from the liturgical calendar of the Roman Catholic Church by the Second Vatican Council in 1970.

Her liturgical feast was inserted into the Roman Catholic Calendar of Saints in 1729 for celebration initially on August 30, because August 24, the anniversary day of her death, is the feast of Saint Bartholomew the Apostle and August 30 was the closest date not already occupied by a well-known saint.

The translations of semper as ever shall be, and in saecula saeculorum as world without end date from Cranmer's Book of Common Prayer, and are most commonly found in Anglican usage, as well as the derivative usage of older Lutheran liturgical books.

The feast of the Annunciation is usually held on March 25 ; it is moved in the Catholic Church, Anglican and Lutheran liturgical calendars when this date would fall during Holy Week or Easter Week or on a Sunday.

When Alcuin twice observes about a casula which was sent him, that he meant to wear it always at Mass, we may probably infer that such garments at this date were not distinctively liturgical owing to anything in their material or construction, but that they were set aside for the use of the altar at the choice of the owner, who might equally well have used them as part of his ordinary attire.

In the case of the chasuble the process of liturgical specialization, was completed at a comparatively early date, and before the end of the ninth century the maker of a casula probably knew quite well in most cases whether he intended his handiwork for a Mass vestment or for an everyday outer garment.

Because of the lack of definite information about the anonymous group of holy virgins who on some uncertain date were killed at Cologne, their commemoration was omitted from the Catholic calendar of saints for liturgical celebration when it was revised in 1969, but they have been kept in the Roman Martyrology.

Unity in liturgical practice was strongly encouraged by Rome from an early date as well as around the general period of the East-West Schism ; areas Christianised after periods of conquest typically had the Roman rite installed — this was true for centuries in the East as well.

The Roman Catholic Church, together with many Protestant denominations, including the Anglicans, Presbyterians, Lutherans and Methodists, celebrate the Feast of Christ the King on the last Sunday of the liturgical year ( before a new year begins with the first Sunday of Advent, the earliest date of which is 27 November ).

Richard is honored with a feast day on the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church ( USA ) on April 3, which is also the date for his commemoration in the new Roman Martyrology of 2004 for the Roman Catholic Church.

This tradition dated from a time when calendars were not readily available, and the church needed to publicize the date of Easter, since many celebrations of the liturgical year depend on it.

In accordance with liturgical tradition, the date was changed in 1969 to the anniversary of the death of one of them, Alexis Falconieri, which occurred on 17 February 1310.

In the current Roman Catholic liturgical calendar for Wales he is commemorated on the traditional date of September 11.

For example, many of his liturgical compositions are based on church modes that date back 500 years.

In Middle Ages, when the order of the liturgical feasts was partly determined by the date of Easter, the custom was early established in the Western Church of drawing up tables to indicate that date for a certain number of years or even centuries.