How to Use liturgical in a Sentence

liturgical

adjective
  • Grace was an acolyte at Lord's Chapel, wise in the ways of liturgical response.
    — CBS News, 5 Dec. 2025
  • One recalled the smell of the priest’s polyester liturgical vestments, seared into his brain.
    — Lee O. Sanderlin, Baltimore Sun, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Advent is the start of the Christian church's liturgical year.
    — Jalen Williams, Detroit Free Press, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Advent is the start of the Christian church's liturgical year.
    — Joyce Orlando, The Tennessean, 29 Nov. 2024
  • Francis is less a liturgical purist and insists the church must be more missionary.
    — Fox News, 5 May 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
  • The dates of Lent vary each year due to its adherence to the liturgical calendar.
    — Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Mozart didn’t write this piece on commission for a liturgical occasion.
    — Patrick Neas, kansascity, 7 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • Francis though is less a liturgical purist and has insisted the church be more missionary in nature.
    — Washington Post, 6 May 2018
  • Priests and firefighters raced to save the relics, liturgical artifacts, and art inside.
    — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2020
  • The next pope will have to bridge this liturgical divide—a pastoral challenge, not a political one.
    — Christopher Hale, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 May 2025
  • The Christian faith has a liturgical season known as ordinary time.
    — A. Trevor Sutton, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • So important, and so memorable, and so repeated that there was an almost liturgical feel to it.
    — Mathew Rodriguez, Them, 9 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 same goes for liturgical ministers before and after Mass.
    — Christina Capatides, CBS News, 2 Mar. 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
  • Melodies in the piece come largely from Russian Orthodox liturgical chants.
    — Lukas Schulze, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Aug. 2022
  • The liturgical garments – such as robes, stoles and hats – worn by the pope and other Christian church officials are known as vestments.
    — Christopher Watson, ABC News, 8 May 2025
  • The reverence is like that for liturgical objects, vessels for the transfer of a dynamic mystery.
    — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 29 June 2019
  • The Catholic Church opposed cross-dressing in laws, liturgical meetings and other writings.
    — Sarah Barringer, The Conversation, 27 May 2025
  • The mission translated the Bible and some liturgical texts into Kazakh.
    — J. Eugene Clay, The Conversation, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Ash Wednesday is the first day of the liturgical season of Lent, which falls 6½ weeks before Easter each year.
    — Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 2 Feb. 2026
  • 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, 24 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • The Eve of Epiphany marks the end of the 12 days of Christmas season on the liturgical calendar.
    — al, 6 Jan. 2022

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