prayerbook

Liturgical worship guide

A prayerbook is a book containing prayers and devotional texts for religious worship, either private or communal.

Most major religions have traditional prayerbooks: the Jewish siddur, the Catholic missal, the Book of Common Prayer in Anglican churches.

She brought her grandmother's worn prayerbook to services.

traditions

siddur

Jewish daily worship text

  • machzorHigh Holy Day prayerbook
  • sutraEastern religious discourse
  • missalCatholic service text collection

breviary · psalter · hymnal · catechism · pontifical · ritual · tefillin

liturgical

missal

Catholic service text collection

psalter · matins · vespers · compline · mass · liturgy · rubrics · antiphon · canticle · offertory

devotional

meditation

Focused attention practice

thanksgiving · confession · adoration · novena · rosary · devotions · invocation · petition · litany · examination

physical

binding

Legally or morally required

leather · gilt · illumination · margin · annotations · cover · spine · printing · pocket · worn

Categories
Opposites
sacred vs. secular texts

prayerbookpulp fiction

Sensational cheap literature

comic book · tabloid · pornography · smut · dime novel

devotional vs. irreverent content

prayerbookThe God Delusion

Argument against theistic belief

type of religious book

prayerbookhymnal

Religious song collection

songbook · scripture · catechism · devotional · psalter

Family

book, prayer, pray, prayers, bookish, booklet, prayed, praying, prayerful

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G