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The bugia is a low, portable candlestick with a long handle, held next to clergy to illuminate books being sung or read from. According to the 1886 Caeremoniale Episcoporum , it was to be made of gold or gilt silver for cardinals and patriarchs and silver for all other prelates, but this distinction was seldom followed. [ 3 ]
The candlesticks consist of five principal parts: the foot, the stem, the knob, the bowl to catch drippings, and the pricket on which the candle is placed. Altar candlesticks may be made of any material suitable for candlesticks, with the exception that silvered candlesticks may not be used on Good Friday. They may never be used for funeral ...
On this fresco in San Clemente al Laterano, the priest is seen extending his hands rather than keeping his thumb and index joined. The practise of canonical digits is not found among the Eastern churches and little evidence is available to prove this practise before the East–West Schism in 1054.
Altar candles are lit using a taper, which is a lit wick attached to a long handle. They are lit and extinguished in a particular order so that the Gospel side candle is never burning alone. The Gospel side of the church is the left side as you are facing the front. So the candles are lit from right to left and extinguished from left to right. [9]
Misericord from the Charterhouse of Florence (Tuscany, Italy), depicting a mascaron With the seat lifted (as at left), the misericord provides a ledge to support the user. A misericord (sometimes named mercy seat, like the biblical object) is a small wooden structure formed on the underside of a folding seat in a church which, when the seat is folded up, is intended to act as a shelf to ...
Triple candlestick being lit, in Margaret Agnes Rope's stained glass Lumen Christi. A triple candlestick , also known as reed , tricereo , arundo , triangulum , or lumen Christi , was a liturgical object prescribed until 1955 in the Roman Rite Easter Vigil service , held on Holy Saturday morning.
A large three-branched candle for the Great Blessing of Waters in the background, in front of the bishop. Also, bishop's trikirion and dikirion held by subdeacons.. Among the Ukrainian Eastern Christians (Russian Orthodox, Ukrainian Orthodox and Ukrainian Catholic), it is common for the priest or bishop to use a large three-branch candle for the Great Blessing of Waters on the Great Feast of ...
The term people's altar was used to refer to the free-standing altar in Catholic churches, where the priest celebrates the Eucharistic part of Holy Mass turned towards the faithful (versus populum), as opposed to ad orientem (sometimes also called Ad Deum) where the people and the priest face the altar together. That is so that those who join ...