Word: altar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Coventry will have a feature unique in Anglican Cathedrals: the high altar will not be set against the east end, but will stand in the center of the building.* Said Bishop Gorton: "The altar does not belong to the clergy only. It belongs also to the people. Therefore, set it up in the middle of the church and let the people gather around...
Horacio lost sleep, protested, continued to lose sleep. One evening he came home from work, tired and late. He ate his black beans and went to bed. Soon Ricardina started the service. In a turban and bright red robes, she screamed incantations before the "pegi" (altar) to "Xango" (God of Thunder). The holy uproar swelled. At the climax, Oswaldo Candido da Silva, the "Pae de Santo" (High Priest) beheaded a squawking chicken.* The congregation made suitable noises...
...prayer meeting, and global war gives men little time to sing hymns in front of an altar. But the praying pilot; the nurse who lifted the cup of cold water to my burning lips; the mail truck driver with a chest cough that sounded to me like pneumonia, who nevertheless drove twelve miles out of his way to get a lost kid from Georgia back to his outfit; the girl from Oregon who was hanging curtains at a dust-smothered "basha" to make it look a bit like home to homesick boys; and the wounded from the landing beaches...
...Vatican radio (still unsilenced by the Nazis) fortnight ago broadcast an important reminder, authorized by Pope Pius XII, to Roman Catholic laymen. In case of bombing or other wartime emergencies it is the duty of Roman Catholic laymen to rescue the Host from the altar or to gather up any Hosts or pieces of Hosts which may have been blasted to the sanctuary floor. Normally only priests and deacons are supposed to handle the Blessed Sacrament...
...Faith. With the commander and a priest De Luce stood before the altar of a Twelfth-Century church. Fascinated, he watched the commander make the sign of the cross with one hand, while holding his grey cap with its red star in his other. Outside, looking over the roofs at a red, white and blue Croatian flag with a red star in the white stripe, the priest said: "Tired of the Fascist yoke, the priests and people of our community began cooperating a year ago with the Partisans, furnishing them money and food. We considered it the only thing...