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Altar and pulpit fellowship describes an ecumenical collaboration between two Christian organizations, and is a Lutheran term for full communion, [1] or communio in sacris. [2] Altar refers to the altar in Christian churches, which holds the sacrament of Holy Communion. Pulpit refers to the pulpit, from which a pastor preaches.
Nineteenth-century wooden and iron altar rails in St Pancras Church, Ipswich. The altar rail (also known as a communion rail or chancel rail) is a low barrier, sometimes ornate and usually made of stone, wood or metal in some combination, delimiting the chancel or the sanctuary and altar in a church, [1] [2] from the nave and other parts that contain the congregation.
Concordia Publishing House, March 2018. Concordia Publishing House (CPH), founded in 1869, is the official publishing arm of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS). ). Headquartered in St Louis, Missouri, at 3558 S. Jefferson Avenue, CPH publishes the synod's official monthly magazine, The Lutheran Witness, and the synod's hymnals, including The Lutheran Hymnal (1941), Lutheran Worship ...
The pulpit of the Notre-Dame de Revel in Revel, Haute-Garonne, France Pulpit at Blenduk Church in Semarang, Indonesia, with large sounding board and cloth antependium "Two-decker" pulpit in an abandoned Welsh chapel, with reading desk below 1870 Gothic Revival oak pulpit, Church of St Thomas, Thurstonland Ambo, in the modern Catholic sense, in Austria 19th-century wooden pulpit in Canterbury ...
The chancel features a mahogany pulpit and sounding board, a lectern, an organ designed for choral accompaniment, and enough space for Hillsdale's 100-voice choir and chamber ensemble. [19] While the chancel is ringed by limestone Doric columns and entablature , the altar is framed by Corinthian columns and a pediment in marble illuminated by ...
The first mention of the Pfarrkirche St.-Marien dates to 1187. Originally a wooden church in the Diocese of Brandenburg, in 1280 the present chancel and the chancel's south aisle were built. Between 1412 and 1439 the nave was replaced by the present three-aisle structure and the two towers built, originally crowned by stone pyramids.
This is an arch which separates the chancel from the nave and transept of a church. [4] If the chancel, strictly defined as choir and sanctuary, does not fill the full width of a medieval church, there will usually be some form of low wall or screen at its sides, demarcating it from the ambulatory or parallel side chapels.
The Concordia Lutheran Conference (CLC) is a small organization of Lutheran churches in the United States which formed in 1956. [1] It was a reorganization of some of the churches of the Orthodox Lutheran Conference (OLC), which had been formed in September 1951, in Okabena, Minnesota, [2] following a break with Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS).