Word: altare
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...honor, with the royalty and the beribboned ambassadors of 67 nations, sat six Congolese army officers.* As they entered the church, Fabiola once again almost tripped over her train, but this time Baudouin straightened it out himself and led his bride down the great center aisle to the altar. After the ceremony, cannon boomed, bells pealed, and a thousand doves spiraled upward into the dark, wintry skies...
...Altar in the Center. Tradition is proving a challenge and a help to modern church architects in unexpected ways. A prime example is the fast-growing liturgical movement, both Roman Catholic and Protestant, which emphasizes the centrality of the Mass or Communion for the church, and goes back for precedent to the early Christian practice whereby the congregation gathered around the Communion table and actively participated in the sacrament. "What we are seeking to restore." says San Francisco's Episcopal Bishop James Pike, "is the family around the table of the Lord...
...procession of churchmen wound slowly through Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity, the elderly, bespectacled Anglican prelate stopped before the Roman Catholic altar, knelt and murmured a brief prayer. He also knelt before the two other altars in the three-sect church: the Greek Orthodox and Armenian Orthodox. Flashbulbs popped and newsmen recorded the fact, for the prelate was none other than the Most Rev. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, 73, Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of the Church of England. Dr. Fisher was in the Holy Land on the first leg of a twelve-day Middle Eastern pilgrimage that will...
...generations, are as anonymous as the men and women of the countryside who counted it their pious privilege to drag stones to the site. Last week the faithful of a far more individualistic time celebrated their work and the seven centuries between in a High Mass with 50 altar boys, vicars, priests, friars, bishops, archbishops and ten orders of nuns. Said Maurice Cardinal Feltin of Paris: "The cathedral has accomplished its mission over the years-it has revealed the grace of God. It is one of the privileged meeting places...
...textile firm, the tangled fabrics of their lives come suddenly and bewilderingly apart. Dixie Morse, who is working nights at a cinema in order to save money for a model bungalow, refuses to sleep any longer with Humphrey Place, and he, in turn, leaves her at the altar. Mr. Weedin, the personnel manager, looks into Dougal's bewitched eyes and at "the alarming bones of his hands" and suffers a nervous breakdown. Mr. Druce himself, suspecting that Dougal is a police informer in alliance with Merle Coverdale, kills his mistress by stabbing her nine times with a corkscrew. Dougal...