religious services
Congregational worship events
Religious services are formal gatherings for communal worship, prayer, and religious observance.
The term covers everything from Sunday church services to Friday prayers at a mosque to Shabbat services at a synagogue.
Services typically include prescribed rituals, readings from sacred texts, and often music or singing: We attend religious services every week.
The plural form usually refers to multiple occasions or the general practice of attending worship.
- preachingDelivering moral discourse
- sermonClergy's worship address
- Sunday massWeekly Christian worship gathering
- morning worshipEarly devotional service
- vespersEvening devotional service
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- JudaismShabbat, kosher, Passover, Torah, Hanukkah
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Official public observances
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Solitary religious observance
silent reflection · personal devotion · hermitage · journaling
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