Word: altare
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...impressively beautiful ceremony. While the moon splashes ghostly shadows through the grove, a funeral procession moves under redwood branches huge as an oaktree's bole, carrying along the effigy of "Dull Care," playing slow music. Hidden voices chant from the shadowy hillsides. The procession halts before the sacrificial "Altar of the Owl," solemnly buries the effigy as the music dies away...
...Bishop of London had reported there were only six communicants in St. Paul's Cathedral. Elsewhere, conditions in the Church of England continued worse. Many a rural clergyman was a lazy oaf, neglectful of baptisms and communions. The font in many a church was cluttered with debris, the altar a rickety table on which the minister tossed his greatcoat and riding crop...
...East Savannah, Georgia's First African Baptist Church, Marion Moultrie uprose to begin the service by which he would be ordained a minister. Beside the altar flickering oil lamps lighted the church's storm-cast gloom. Standing below the pulpit, prayer book in hand. Marion Moultrie began solemnly to intone: "We are gathered here this afternoon . . ." Crash! The church was glutted with sound and light. Marion Moultrie swayed, fell dead in the arms of a deacon. . . The blackamoors screamed, then set up such a wailing as they had never before achieved. Police came, took away the body with...
Shimmering in white satin, trailing a ten-foot train, Senorita Sampedro approached the altar to exchange rings, Latin fashion. Her bridegroom, she knew, had broken down in sobs the night before, when told that ex-King Alfonso XIII irrevocably disapproved. Now he was smiling. Beside him stood the only Spanish grandee who could be induced to come, Duke Manuel Almadova, as best...
Cleveland's Bishop Schrembs recommended especially the moment in the Mass when "the priest bows low as the little altar bell tinkles and he gazes upon the sacred Host just trans-substantiated between his linger and raises it on high, and you gaze upon it with a gaze of love; and then out goes a cry from the hearts of the believing people, Benedictus, qui venit in nomine Domini, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest! Let the congregation sing...