service book

Church ritual guide

A service book is a book containing the forms of worship, prayers, and rituals used in religious services.

In Christian churches, service books guide clergy and congregations through liturgy: The priest opened the service book to the order for evening prayer.

In military contexts, a service book is a record of a soldier's or sailor's career and conduct.

Related

holy orders · morning prayer · evening prayer · lectionary · ordinal · siddur · liturgy · gradual · ritual · rite of passage · agenda

Categories
Opposites
liturgical vs. scriptural authority

service bookscripture

Sacred religious writings

Holy Bible · sacred scripture · Torah · Quran · Gospel

structured vs. spontaneous worship

service bookcharismatic worship

Spirit-led, demonstrative religious practice

glossolalia

sacred vs. secular texts

service booknovel

New and unusual

manual · textbook · entertainment

Family

service, book, serve, served, serving, server, servant, servile, servitude

Familiarity
Top 500,000
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Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Rated G