divine service
Congregational religious rite
Divine service is a formal term for a religious worship ceremony, particularly in Christian traditions.
It encompasses the structured rituals, prayers, hymns, and readings that make up a church's official act of worship.
The term emphasizes the sacred nature of the gathering and its purpose of honoring and serving God.
The congregation assembled for divine service at eleven o'clock.
Catholic worship service
- vespersEvening devotional service
- matinsLiturgical dawn devotions
- evensongAnglican evening prayer service
- laudsExpresses high admiration
compline · antiphon · lectionary · canticle · litany · introit · gradual · offertory
Sacramental bread and wine
- breadLeavened flour product
- wineFermented grape beverage
- chaliceOrnate ritual drinking vessel
- hostOne receiving guests
consecration · altar · transubstantiation · paten · tabernacle · Mass · Last Supper · grace
Clergy's worship address
- homilyReligious discourse on scripture
- exhortationUrgent persuasive appeal
- GospelChristian salvation teaching
- epistleFormal literary letter
text · exposition · pulpit · preacher · minister · pastor · clergy · congregation
Protected sacred space
- altarSacred ritual table
- naveChurch's main interior
- pulpitChurch speaking platform
- chancelAltar-adjacent clergy space
sacristy · pew · choir · apse · transept · narthex · baptistry · lectern
Mass
Catholic worship service
- vespersEvening devotional service
- matinsLiturgical dawn devotions
- evensongAnglican evening prayer service
lauds · compline · antiphon · lectionary · canticle · litany · introit · gradual · offertory · doxology
Eucharist
Sacramental bread and wine
host · consecration · altar · transubstantiation · paten · tabernacle · Mass · Last Supper · grace · fellowship
sermon
Clergy's worship address
- homilyReligious discourse on scripture
- exhortationUrgent persuasive appeal
- GospelChristian salvation teaching
epistle · text · exposition · pulpit · preacher · minister · pastor · clergy · congregation · parishioners
sanctuary
Protected sacred space
chancel · sacristy · pew · choir · apse · transept · narthex · baptistry · lectern · credence
ceremony
Formal event marking occasions
- processionFormal moving line
- incenseAnger greatly, or aromatic resin
- genuflectionKnee-bending act of reverence
candles · vestments · chasuble · stole · cassock · alb · surplice · acolyte · bowing · crossing
hymns
Religious songs of worship
cantor · choir · organ · prelude · postlude · doxology · plainsong · Gregorian · chorale · offertory
- Christian prayerLord's Prayer, Our Father, amen, contemplative prayer, intercession
- church musicanthems, hymnal, masses, hymnbook, canticles
- EucharistBlessed Sacrament, Holy Communion, bread and wine, Real Presence, communion wafer
- HasidismBaal Shem Tov, rebbe, Chabad, Tanya, tish
- liturgical readingsgospel reading, gospel readings, lectionary, scripture readings, first reading
- Mussarmussar, character traits, ethical conduct, ethical behavior, self-improvement
divine servicetown hall meeting
Gathering for civic dialogue
political rally · corporate event · social function · commercial activity
divine serviceblasphemy
Irreverence toward the sacred
sacrilege · profanation · desecration · black mass · satanic ritual
service, divine, divinity, divination, diviner, divining, divinely, semidivine, divineness