prayer book

Liturgical worship guide

A prayer book is a book containing prayers and religious texts for worship services or private devotion.

Most religious traditions have standard prayer books: the Book of Common Prayer for Anglicans, the siddur for Jews, the missal for Catholics.

She followed along in her prayer book during the service.

devotional

psalms

Religious songs of praise

  • hymnalReligious song collection
  • missalCatholic service text collection
  • breviaryDaily prayer compilation

rosary · novena · litany · chaplet · intercession · supplication · matins · vespers · compline · piety

traditions

siddur

Jewish daily worship text

  • TorahJudaism's core scripture
  • QuranIslam's central scripture
  • TanakhJewish scriptural canon

breviary · missal · rosary · prayerbook · bencher

liturgical

missal

Catholic service text collection

  • lectionaryScheduled scripture for services
  • psalterDevotional song compilation
  • ordoLiturgical scheduling booklet

rubrics · collect · doxology · proper · ordinary · rite · gradual · sequence

setting

pew

Worship hall seating

chapel · congregation · clergy · parishioner · service · mass · worship · sacristy · chancel · nave

physical

binding

Legally or morally required

cover · illuminated · pocket-sized · worn · dog-eared · hardcover · embossed · bookmark · spine · margins

Categories
Opposites
sacred vs. secular texts

prayer booksmut

Lewd content or soot

pulp fiction · tabloid · comic book · romance novel · penny dreadful

devotional vs. blasphemous content

prayer bookgrimoire

Textbook of sorcery

pornography

structured worship vs. spontaneous expression

prayer bookglossolalia

Meaningless ecstatic speech

speaking in tongues · charismatic worship

Family

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Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G