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Example sentences for "liturgical"

Lexicographically close words:
littoral; littore; littus; litty; liturgic; liturgies; liturgische; liturgy; litus; lituus
  1. Other documents speak of his defection, and it is probably this lapse that explains the silence of the ancient liturgical calendars.

  2. He became a Salian priest at the age of eight, and soon knew by heart all the forms and liturgical order of the official worship, and even the sacred music.

  3. Of late years there have been added to it a Liturgical Commission, a Historico-liturgical Commission, and a Commission for church song, the functions of which are sufficiently indicated by their names.

  4. With the latter is connected the commission for the examination of the liturgical books of the East (Commissio pro corrigendis libris ecclesiae Orientalis).

  5. It is modelled on the Greek Liturgical Uncial of the 9th century, and its invention is traditionally, though in all probability wrongly, ascribed to the Greek missionary Cyril (d.

  6. College of the Propaganda for the education of missionaries, and his polyglot press for printing the liturgical books of the East.

  7. The canonesses often taught girls, and were also employed in embroidering ecclesiastical vestments and transcribing liturgical books.

  8. To be sure, it soon came to seem to him a terribly important matter whether according to the Roman sequence red were worn at Whitsuntide or whether according to Old English use white were the liturgical colour.

  9. He wrestled with the liturgical colours; he tried to grasp the difference between Transubstantiation, Consubstantiation and the Real Presence; and he congratulated himself upon being under the immediate patronage of an Archangel.

  10. Chator's well-known look of alarm that always followed one of Michael's doctrinal or liturgical announcements was more profound than it had ever been before.

  11. These discussions amused Michael most when he was able to break the rhythm of the battledores by knocking down whatever liturgical or theological shuttlecock was being used.

  12. Wheatly, who led the way in liturgical inquiry, was alive till 1742; and Bp.

  13. From the recurrence of a number of particular formulae with frequent numerals at intervals, the book seems to be a liturgical document.

  14. Corpus Christi Feast by way of giving liturgical expression to this view.

  15. In the same way the excellent Archivio dell'Ecclesiastico of Florence devotes every month a portion of its pages to the liturgical questions which are continually addressed to the Editor by the clergy of Northern Italy.

  16. They judged that they could not better recommend this object to their readers than by laying before them a sample of the actual working of the liturgical department of an ecclesiastical periodical of long standing and renown.

  17. It is only by liturgical aids that public worship can become common worship.

  18. Doubtless one indirect effect of the great dignity and beauty of liturgical worship, is to stimulate those who participate in it to a deeper devotion at home.

  19. Under the least satisfactory conditions the congregation gathered in God's house has marvellous dignity; the unity of movement, the rich variety and the rhythm of liturgical expression characterize it as the most august of human assemblies.

  20. Even they, however, should be practised in reading Latin, so as to read it intelligibly to themselves, for the liturgical prayers should be a great aid to their own devotion.

  21. The liturgical rules bind only sub levi, and therefore can be set aside for a reasonable cause, provided that the whole Office is finished by the hour of midnight.

  22. A priest should be educated in the liturgical sense that he in turn may educate his people.

  23. They are in truth private devotions, and ought to be sung as such, without any liturgical accessories.

  24. And in this case he need not limit himself to the liturgical "Preparation.

  25. The late Pope tried to reintroduce the practice of the faithful following the liturgical prayers, etc.

  26. On a Sunday the succession of mass-goers is continuous; the liturgical services draw large congregations; and Catholicism seems to be in the very air one breathes.

  27. But the priest will have to conduct many services which are only partly liturgical, or not liturgical at all.

  28. If well discharged, in proper surroundings, it may easily be made part of the liturgical life of the church within us, and should help us not a little in keeping the various feasts of the year with devotion.

  29. A priest who has to walk some distance to the convent, for example, may well keep up a state of recollection during his journey, and when he knows the liturgical prayers by heart, he can usually say them on the way.

  30. To others, the changing the feast at midday to that of the morrow is perplexing, especially on days when there may be Benediction in the evening in honour of the former feast, which in his liturgical life has passed away.

  31. It is certainly not an over-statement that much more trouble might be taken with the liturgical services than is often the case.

  32. But this was no longer customary, only the liturgical form of surrender was employed.

  33. In the first age of the Church the liturgical service grew out of that of the synagogue.

  34. In answer to the request made in our last number, some of our reverend friends have addressed to us several most interesting questions on Liturgical points.

  35. It is not difficult to see how the early Christian dramas could have developed from the elaborate liturgical presentations of such events as the nativity, the annunciation, and the crucifixion.

  36. Bach treated the chorale melodies in many of his works, such as his organ chorales and his motets, as the medieval composers treated the cantus firmus, the liturgical chant.

  37. Indeed there are extant some twenty-seven or twenty-eight liturgical arrangements which are purely dramatic in form and style.

  38. A school of music was founded in Rome where the new Gregorian liturgical style, known as "Cantus Romanus," was taught.

  39. However, it is a matter of record that hymnody suffered a gradual decline in the Eastern division of the Christian Church and eventually assumed more of a liturgical character.

  40. Because of their exalted character and Scriptural language they have found an imperishable place in the liturgical forms of the Christian Church.

  41. The Night Office was not said at Malford, where the liturgical worship of the day began with Lauds and Prime at six.

  42. They are reflections and rules of a liturgical and theological nature, and proceed on a plan somewhat of the following kind.

  43. The Brahmans had never established a hierarchical organisation; they had contented themselves with the liturgical monopoly of their order, with their aristocratic position and claims against the other castes.

  44. The knowledge of liturgical usage began to fade, and Varro had to recall the very names of forgotten gods.

  45. You may be surprised to hear that, having no choir to execute the liturgical chant, we adopt as far as {99} we can the methodist style of singing emotional hymns during the services.

  46. Liturgical matters engrossed at this time, as always, a good deal of Bute's attention, and are dealt with in many of his letters.

  47. During this time he paid several visits to the Benedictine Priory at Belmont, near Hereford, where his liturgical tastes found satisfaction in the solemn rendering of the Divine service by the monastic community.

  48. As to the Greeks in America, it is impossible for me, I am sorry to say, to have anything to do with supplying them with my own or any other Liturgical books for use in their (as we believe) schismatic worship.

  49. One of the dullest liturgical pieces composed by the Hebrew writer Kaliri (about 700 A.

  50. The liturgical chants were then something new in the West.

  51. Later, in great severity, he will reproach himself for the pleasure he takes in the liturgical chants, but nevertheless the old instinct will remain.

  52. And no doubt they sang for the last time before him one of those liturgical chants which long ago at Milan had touched him even to tears, and now, since the siege, in the panic caused by the Barbarians, they dared not sing any more.

  53. The frequent liturgical use made of it is both a sign and a cause of this.

  54. This inconvenience was evidently felt in liturgical use, as in the Roman Breviary and Missal the repetition of "superexaltate" is avoided.

  55. The liturgical use however was generally confined to the Song proper, commencing with v.

  56. Greek copies to the prayer of Azarias, be thought to give it countenance; yet these may have crept in from their convenience for liturgical use, and so be accounted for merely on practical grounds.


  57. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "liturgical" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.