To comprehend Dante’s attitude towards religion in the Comedy this chapter seeks to answer questions such as: how is devotion portrayed in the Comedy? Is prayer a theme in the poem? Is sacrifice part of Dante’s understanding of worship and the religious life? By analysing a variety of issues, ranging from the use of the bible, the rewording of liturgy and the understanding of devotional practices in the poem, the author argues that Dante’s devotional zeal paralleled that of many members of late-medieval lay communities. At the same time, he also believed that the religious experience and practice of the laity needed to be augmented as a result of better competence in fields which normally were the preserve of learned clerics, most notably theology and biblical exegesis. Among his greatest challenges when composing the Comedy was to create a mirror of and a dialogue on contemporary religious culture that could engage clerics as well as ordinary believers, while at the same time presenting the poem as praise of and an act of sacrifice to God, thereby becoming part of Christian worship, and hence an apt means through which its readers could achieve salvation.