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2. Altar (Catholic Church) - Wikipedia

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   The altar in the Catholic Church is used for ... for breaking up and using for firewood ... upon the altar or set into the table of the altar; it must be placed ...

3. 9th National Eucharistic Congress (United States) - Wikipedia

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   Around a third of the way to the fairgrounds, and Altar of Exposition had been set up in Como Park. [6]: 41 The monstrance was placed on the altar, and then the entirety of those in procession were able to walk by and bow in veneration. Among the many groups in procession were a police and military escort, various men's and women's societies ...

4. Home altar - Wikipedia

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   A home altar in a Methodist household, fixed on the eastern wall of the house A homemade attached altar made from wood in a Traditional Catholic home. It combines devotional pictures and statues, as well as relics and candles. A home altar or family altar is a shrine kept in the home of a Western Christian family used for Christian prayer and ...

5. Credence table - Wikipedia

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   During the Offertory, the acolyte, deacon or priest places the sacred vessels on the altar. The wine and water are taken in their cruets to the altar to be poured into the chalice. After the altar has been incensed (if incense is used), two servers wash the priest's hands. The priest holds his hands over the lavabo bowl and the first server (if ...

6. May devotions to the Blessed Virgin Mary - Wikipedia

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   With the development of May Altars in churches, the custom spread to set up this type of "altar" also in the home. [7] This specific devotion has been supported by several popes including Pope Pius XII in his encyclical Ingruentium malorum: The custom of the family recitation of the Holy Rosary is a most efficacious means.

7. People's altar - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

8. Monstrance - Wikipedia

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   A monstrance, also known as an ostensorium (or an ostensory), [1] is a vessel used in Roman Catholic, Old Catholic, High Church Lutheran and Anglican churches for the display on an altar of some object of piety, such as the consecrated Eucharistic Sacramental bread (host) during Eucharistic adoration or during the Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.

9. Altar server - Wikipedia

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   An altar server is a lay assistant to a member of the clergy during a Christian liturgy. An altar server attends to supporting tasks at the altar such as fetching and carrying, ringing the altar bell, helping bring up the gifts, and bringing up the liturgical books, among other things. If young, the server is commonly called an altar boy or ...