How to Use liturgical in a Sentence

liturgical

adjective

• The Eve of Epiphany marks the end of the 12 days of Christmas season on the liturgical calendar.
  — al, 6 Jan. 2022
• Today, the rare liturgical text is known as the Crosby-Schøyen Codex, one of the world’s oldest books.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Apr. 2024
• One recalled the smell of the priest’s polyester liturgical vestments, seared into his brain.
  — Lee O. Sanderlin, Baltimore Sun, 3 Mar. 2023
• The dates of Lent vary each year due to its adherence to the liturgical calendar.
  — Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 17 Jan. 2024
• And very few have the resources to address liturgical music.
  — Alastair MacAulay, New York Times, 13 July 2018
• Catholic women around the world have served as lectors and acolytes, kinds of liturgical assistants, for decades.
  — Francis X. Rocca, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2021
• In 1969, the feast day was removed from the Christian liturgical calendar due to how little was known about the patron saint(s).
  — Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 11 Jan. 2023
• Hentz is a member of Scecina’s liturgy club and sets up and tears down all school liturgical services.
  — Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Dec. 2020
• For Catholics, the liturgical calendar brings form, meaning and order to the unfolding of days and weeks.
  — James Matthew Wilson, WSJ, 24 Dec. 2020
• Francis is less a liturgical purist and insists the church must be more missionary.
  — Fox News, 5 May 2018
• What is even more palpable in this book is the way that the writing is meant to replicate the pulse and repetitive phrasing of liturgical prayer.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2021
• As the liturgical season of Advent comes to a close, here are three different ways people around the world celebrate the season — with food.
  — Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 23 Dec. 2023
• Priests and firefighters raced to save the relics, liturgical artifacts, and art inside.
  — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2020
• The playwright sadly lets the more universal issues get lost in the weeds of liturgical conundrum here.
  — Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 21 Apr. 2017
• For observant Catholics, that means the most romantic day of the year will be put on hold for one of the major holidays on the Catholic liturgical calendar.
  — The Enquirer, 5 Jan. 2024
• Francis though is less a liturgical purist and has insisted the church be more missionary in nature.
  — Washington Post, 6 May 2018
• The Christian faith has a liturgical season known as ordinary time.
  — A. Trevor Sutton, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Oct. 2023
• After that, Catholics, Episcopalians and others will be clear of the strange overlap until the year 2170, some liturgical experts said.
  — Ruth Graham, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2024
• In the Middle Ages, monks wrote and copied Bibles, liturgical works and secular texts, and later produced such works on printing presses.
  — Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 May 2021
• Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the Lenten season in the Christian liturgical calendar.
  — Maeghan Dolph, Fox News, 14 Feb. 2024
• Melodies in the piece come largely from Russian Orthodox liturgical chants.
  — Lukas Schulze, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Aug. 2022
• This is what the church does in its liturgical service and also in canonising those who are believed to be martyrs and confessors.
  — The Economist, 1 Feb. 2018
• The group, all priests, will sing liturgical chants a cappella in English, Greek and Romanian.
  — San Antonio Express-News, 2 Mar. 2018
• The funds are planned to help renew liturgical messaging from the pulpit — a homily — and better reach Catholic youth and young adults, according to a prepared statement from the school.
  — Dallas News, 19 Dec. 2022
• The liturgical performers wear white robes; the street people are dressed in modern casual clothes ( Christine Crook did the costumes).
  — Heidi Waleson, WSJ, 18 July 2018
• The same goes for liturgical ministers before and after Mass.
  — Christina Capatides, CBS News, 2 Mar. 2020
• Thousands of works of classical liturgical music use hallelujah, in part because there was a great need for them.
  — Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2021
• That's because Christmas Day, according to the liturgical calendar, is the beginning of the Christmas season, not the end.
  — Stephanie H. Murray, The Week, 14 Dec. 2021
• The term is derived from the Latin word adventus, meaning coming or arrival, and is historically the beginning of the liturgical year for most Christian churches in the West.
  — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
• In 2011, an angry mob plundered and burned a Coptic village church after finding in it an ancient Coptic liturgical script and mistaking it for a document of sorcery.
  — Nina Shea, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2017

Last Updated: 29 Dec 2024