breviary

As nouns the difference between breviary and missal

is that breviary is a book containing prayers, hymns, and so on for everyday use at the canonical hours while missal is a prayer book.

As nouns the difference between breviary and missa

is that breviary is a book containing prayers, hymns, and so on for everyday use at the canonical hours while missa is a mass, in the sense of a composition setting several sung parts of the liturgic service (most often chosen from the ordinary parts Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Agnus Dei and/or Sanctus) to music, notably when the text in Latin is used (as long universally prescribed by Rome.

As nouns the difference between breviary and breviate

is that breviary is a book containing prayers, hymns, and so on for everyday use at the canonical hours while breviate is a short account, brief statement; a summary, abridgement or precis.

As nouns the difference between breviary and porteous

is that breviary is a book containing prayers, hymns, and so on for everyday use at the canonical hours while porteous is (historical) a portable breviary.

As nouns the difference between breviary and horologion

is that breviary is a book containing prayers, hymns, and so on for everyday use at the canonical hours while horologion is a liturgical book in the Eastern Church, containing the daily offices corresponding to the Western breviary.

As nouns the difference between breviary and menologium

is that breviary is a book containing prayers, hymns, and so on for everyday use at the canonical hours while menologium is a service book of the greek church that corresponds, though very roughly, to the proprium sanctorum of the latin breviary they include all the movable parts of the services connected with the commemoration of saints and in particular the canons sung in the orthros, the office which corresponds with catholic lauds, including the synaxaries, i e the historical notices regarding the saints of the day.