In addition to some language derived from the New Testament in the liturgy itself ( e. g., the Trisagion may be based on Apocalypse 4: 8, and the beginning of the " Hymn of Praise " draws upon Luke 2: 14 ), the reading of extended passages from the New Testament is a practice common to almost all Christian worship, liturgical or not.

The liturgy is divided into two main parts: The Liturgy of the Word ( Gathering, Proclaiming and Hearing the Word, Prayers of the People ) and the Liturgy of the Eucharist ( together with the Dismissal ), but the entire liturgy itself is also properly referred to as the Holy Eucharist.

Thus, even the open or waiting worship of Quakers is liturgical, since the waiting itself until the Holy Spirit moves individuals to speak is a prescribed form of Quaker worship, sometimes referred to as " the liturgy of silence.

It envisaged only minor reforms of the liturgy itself ; the most important changes it sought affected the calendar.

It is believed that Kol Nidrei was added to the liturgy of Yom Kippur, ten days after Rosh Hashana, because that service is much more solemn, because the Day of atonement is entirely attuned to the theme of repentance and remorse, and because ( despite the great importance of Rosh Hashana ) Yom Kippur services are better attended, and perhaps because Yom Kippur itself is once referred to as Rosh Hashana in Scripture ( Ezekiel 40: 1 ).

Although the group is notable for not taking any official " church name " to itself, and not having an official clergy or liturgy, the title " The Brethren ," is one that many of their number are comfortable with in that the Bible designates all believers as " brethren " ( meaning " brothers ").

Some Puritans objected to all ornament and sought to abolish choirs, hymns, and, inasmuch as liturgy itself was rejected, devotionals.

This nocturnal office adapted itself at a later period to a more modern form, approaching more and more closely to the Roman liturgy.

In the time or times when the word " Alleluia " is excluded from use in the liturgy ( Lent and, in earlier forms of the Roman Rite, Septuagesima ), the pre-Gospel chant either replaces the word " Alleluia " with another acclamation ( in the present normal form of the Roman Rite ), or ( in earlier forms ) is itself replaced by a Tract, while, on the other hand, those earlier forms of the Roman Rite replace the Gradual with an Alleluia chant during Eastertide, thus putting not one but two such chants before the Gospel reading.

In Jerusalem the liturgy displays all its pomp: the bishop was present with all his clergy, the office being celebrated around the Grotto of the Holy Sepulchre itself ; after the psalms and canticles had been sung, the litanies were chanted, and the bishop then blessed the people.

The dating of the liturgical contents are not based on characteristics of the surviving manuscript itself ( ca 750 ): most of its liturgy reflects the mix of Roman and Gallican practice inherited from the Merovingian church.

He felt that the Anglican Church was in the unique position to harness the natural moral impulse that stemmed from society itself, as long as the Church replaced theology with science, abandoned supernatural beliefs, expanded its bible to include a cross-cultural selection of ethical literature and reinterpreted its creeds and liturgy in light of modern ethics and psychology.

The renewal of the Roman-rite liturgy following the Second Vatican Council ( see Mass of Paul VI ) was to highlight the primacy of the Eucharistic celebration itself, more than just a means for providing the permanent Eucharistic presence.

The service itself comprises prayers of atonement, the liturgy of which may be found in many machzorim ( prayer books for the High Holy Days ) or in special prayer books or pamphlets known as " slechot.

Ambrose displayed a kind of liturgical flexibility that kept in mind that liturgy was a tool to serve people in worshiping God, and ought not to become a rigid entity that is invariable from place to place.

He also introduced new practices into the liturgy, and was instrumental in the Witenagemot's recognition of Wulfsige of Sherborne as a saint in about 1012.

Special attention was given by him to the liturgy of the synagogue.

Later, in the strictest secrecy, an Orthodox funeral liturgy, or Panikhida, was offered in the family's dacha.

Pius X was probably influenced by earlier attempts to eliminate repetition in the psalter, most notably the liturgy of the Benedictine congregation of St. Maur.

The work of producing English-language books for use in the liturgy was largely that of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury at first under the reign of Henry VIII, only more radically under his son Edward VI.

For liturgy they looked to Laud's book and in 1724 the first of the ' Wee Bookies ' was published, containing, for the sake of economy, the central part of the Communion beginning with the Offertory.

Between then and 1764, when a more formal revised version was published, a number of things happened which were to separate the Scottish Episcopal liturgy more firmly from either the English books of 1549 or 1559.

These changes were incorporated into the 1764 book which was to be the liturgy of the Scottish Episcopal Church ( until 1911 when it was revised ) but it was to influence the liturgy of the Episcopal Church in the United States.

Their major objections ( exceptions ) were: firstly, that it was improper for the lay congregation to take any vocal part in prayer ( as in the Litany or Lord's Prayer ), other than to say " Amen "; secondly, that no set prayer should exclude the option of an extempore alternative from the Minister ; thirdly, that the Minister should have the option to omit part of the set liturgy at his discretion ; fourthly, that short Collects should be replaced by longer prayers and exhortations ; and fifthly, that all surviving " Catholic " ceremonial should be removed.

A more successful " New Version " by Bishop Mark Hildesley ( 1698 – 1772 ) was in use until 1824 when English liturgy became universal on the island.

This view of marriage was reflected in the lack of any formal liturgy formulated for marriage in the early Church.

The custom of Christmas night liturgy was introduced in the Christian churches after the second half of the 5th century.

The Diatessaron was used as the standard Gospel text in the liturgy of at least some sections of the Syrian Church for possibly up to two centuries and was quoted or alluded to by Syrian writers.

It has been conjectured that the name glagolitsa developed in Croatia around the 14th century and was derived from the word glagolity, applied to adherents of the liturgy in Slavonic.

This was because Church Slavonic was used directly in liturgy instead.

He was the first priest to introduce Catholic liturgy in Kashubian language.

They brought with them the Old Church Slavonic liturgy of the Eastern Orthodox Christian religion, written Slavic language, the version of which known as Chancery Slavonic was to serve the Lithuanian court's document-producing needs for a few centuries, and developed laws, turning Vilnius into a major center of their civilization.

But for lack of a fixed place in the liturgy, they were poorly preserved and less well known.

Prime is the fixed time of prayer of the traditional Divine Office ( Canonical Hours ) in Christian liturgy, said at the first hour of daylight.

Many elements of these liturgies began to be fixed in several popular settings, and a book called the Apostolic Constitutions, from the fourth century, shows an outline for the liturgy which is incorporated in almost all Western and Eastern rites.

It was not, however, until the 1850 that the Bulgarians initiated a purposeful struggle against the Greek clerics in a number of bishoprics demanding their replacement with Bulgarian ones as well as other changes such as the use of Church-Slavonic in liturgy and fixed salaries for bishops.

The abbess also traditionally adds a pectoral cross to the outside of her habit as a symbol of office, though she continues to wear a modified form of her religious habit or dress, as she is unordained-not a male religious-and so does not vest or use choir dress in the liturgy.

(: see ) In effect, the 1662 Prayer Book marked the end of a period of just over 100 years, when a common form of liturgy served for almost all Reformed public worship in England ; and the start of the continuing division between Anglicans and Nonconformists.

Each Unitarian congregation is at liberty to devise its own form of worship, though commonly, Unitarian services lack liturgy and ritual, while containing readings from many sources, which may include sermons, prayers, hymns and songs.

In the traditional form of the Palm Sunday liturgy, before the reforms of 1955, violet was used in the Roman rite both for the blessing of palms and procession and for the subsequent Mass.

According to Saiva Siddhanta, which was for many centuries the dominant school of Shaiva theology and liturgy across the Indian subcontinent ( and beyond it in Cambodia ), the linga is the ideal substrate in which the worshipper should install and worship the five-faced and ten-armed Sadāśiva, the form of Shiva who is the focal divinity of that school of Shaivism.

Pope Gregory I, who gave his name to the musical repertory and may himself have been a composer, is usually claimed to be the originator of the musical portion of the liturgy in its present form, though the sources giving details on his contribution date from more than a hundred years after his death.

The commission established by Pope Pius V had not succeeded, because of the insufficient resources at its disposal, in achieving the aim attributed to it in Pope Pius V's bull Quo Primum, namely to restore the liturgy to " the original form and rite of the holy Fathers ".

The instruction Inter oecumenici of 26 September 1964, issued by the Sacred Congregation of Rites while the Council was still in session, and coming into effect on 7 March 1965 made significant changes to the existing liturgy, though the form of the rite was substantially preserved.

In advance of the 1969 decision on the form of the revision of the liturgy, a preliminary draft of two sections of the Roman Missal was published.

In Masses celebrated without the people, Latin Rite Catholic priests are free to use either the 1962 version of the Tridentine liturgy, or what is now the " ordinary " ( normal ) form of the liturgy.

None advocate returning to the original ( 1570 ) form of the liturgy, though some may perhaps wish a re-establishment of its form before Pius X's revision of the rubrics in 1911.

Cardinal Ottaviani subsequently stated in writing that he had not intended his letter to be made public, and that Pope Paul VI's doctrinal exposition, on 19 November and 26 November 1969, of the revised liturgy in its definitive form meant that " no one can be genuinely scandalised any more ".

Over this period, he embraced whichever form of liturgy, Protestant or Catholic, was favoured by the monarch of the day in order to retain his position as vicar of Bray.

The Mass, a form of sacred musical composition, is a choral composition that sets the invariable portions of the Eucharistic liturgy ( principally that of the Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion, and the Lutheran Church ) to music.

The Lamb of God title has found widespread use in Christian prayers and the Agnus Dei is used both a standard part of the Catholic Mass, with other uses in liturgy and as a form of contemplative prayer.

Given that, according to the rubrics of both the 1962 and the 1970 Missals, there can be only one celebration of the Good Friday liturgy in each church, the ordinary form of the Roman Rite ( i. e. the post-1970 form, which omits the images of the veil and of blindness ) is the one to be used almost everywhere.

The liturgy of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews differs from all these ( more than the Eastern groups differ from each other ), as it represents an older form of the text, has far fewer Kabbalistic additions and reflects some Italian influence.

It is the verb form shalam, though, that provides a deeper understanding of this term in theology, doctrine, and liturgy.

** Sam-Samhitas consist of mantras in the form of songs, which are meant for liturgy.

Closely associated with her temperance work was religion in the form of militant Protestantism and she endowed two Calvinistic Methodist churches in the Abercarn area, with services conducted in the Welsh language, but a liturgy based on the Book of Common Prayer.