liturgist
Rites and ceremonies expert
A liturgist is a person who leads or conducts religious worship services, or one who studies and specializes in liturgy—the formal rites and ceremonies of religious practice.
The term appears most often in Christian contexts: The liturgist prepared the order of worship for Sunday's service.
A liturgist may be clergy or a trained layperson responsible for planning and executing worship elements.
One who performs sacraments
- deaconJunior clergy member
- ministerReligious leader or serve
- pastorChristian congregation leader
- celebrantOne who observes festivities
presider · officiant · cantor · lector · sacristan · verger · acolyte · subdeacon
Scheduled scripture for services
- missalCatholic service text collection
- breviaryDaily prayer compilation
- psalterDevotional song compilation
- hymnalReligious song collection
ordo · ritual · pontifical · gradual · readings · collects · rubrics · canticles
Formal event marking occasions
- processionFormal moving line
- vestmentsCeremonial religious attire
- incenseAnger greatly, or aromatic resin
- chantingRhythmic repetitive vocalization
litany · rubrics · rites · sacraments · benediction · invocation · consecration · elevation
Address to deity
- devotionDeep, loyal commitment
- adorationProfound loving regard
- reverenceProfound admiring respect
- praiseExpression of approval
thanksgiving · supplication · intercession · meditation · contemplation · veneration · piety · sanctification
Ornate ritual drinking vessel
- patenEucharistic bread dish
- cruetsSmall condiment bottles
- monstranceVessel displaying consecrated host
- censerVessel for burning aromatics
altar · tabernacle · lavabo · corporal · pall · crucifix · candlesticks
priest
One who performs sacraments
celebrant · presider · officiant · cantor · lector · sacristan · verger · acolyte · subdeacon · master of ceremonies
lectionary
Scheduled scripture for services
- missalCatholic service text collection
- breviaryDaily prayer compilation
- psalterDevotional song compilation
hymnal · ordo · ritual · pontifical · gradual · readings · collects · rubrics · canticles · gospel book
ceremony
Formal event marking occasions
- processionFormal moving line
- vestmentsCeremonial religious attire
- incenseAnger greatly, or aromatic resin
chanting · litany · rubrics · rites · sacraments · benediction · invocation · consecration · elevation · genuflection
prayer
Address to deity
praise · thanksgiving · supplication · intercession · meditation · contemplation · veneration · piety · sanctification · doxology
chalice
Ornate ritual drinking vessel
- patenEucharistic bread dish
- cruetsSmall condiment bottles
- monstranceVessel displaying consecrated host
censer · altar · tabernacle · lavabo · corporal · pall · crucifix · candlesticks
chasuble
Liturgical overgarment for clergy
cassock · cope · maniple · cincture · mitre · biretta · pallium · paraments
- scholarsscholar, professors, professor, researcher, researchers
- church scholarstheologian, Church Father, Doctor of the Church, exegete, biblical scholar
- religious scholarstheologian, biblical scholar, Islamic scholar, exegete, hagiographer
- Catholic rolesabbess, abbot, friar, monsignor, confessor
- Christian ScholarsAugustine, Aquinas, Thomas Aquinas, Jerome, Athanasius
- church rolesbishop, deacons, priest, pastor, lay readers
liturgistcongregant
Member of a worship assembly
layperson · parishioner · spectator · observer · churchgoer
- liturgical vestmentsCeremonial priestly clothing
- liturgical vesselsContainers for worship rites
- liturgical dramaReligious theatrical performance
- liturgical yearAnnual cycle of Christian seasons