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...teetotaling Lutherans of St. Matthew's were accustomed to using grape juice instead of wine at their Communion services, and were willing to adopt the other churches' usage of ordinary loaf bread instead of unleavened wafers. The Presbyterians, in turn, agreed to take Communion at the altar rail in stead of in the pew. Both the Methodists and the Presbyterians accepted the phrasing of the Apostles' Creed used at St. Matthew's-Christ descended into Hell (rather than Hades), and the Holy Catholic (not Christian) Church...
...Constantine, the archbishop, his white beard bobbing, said: "Thy wife shall be as the fruitful vine upon the walls of thy house, thy children like the olive branches around thy table." The couple then drank three times from an enameled cup of wine, circled the altar in the traditional Dance of Isaiah as rose petals cascaded from the ceiling. As they marched down the aisle, a 101-gun salute began reverberating across the blue hills of Hellas, and all the bells of Athens began to peal...
...symbolic act of his visit was a simple inspection of his mission's half-finished Church of the Virgin of the Door in Peru's boomtown, anchovy-fishing city of Chimbote. In that church the altar is placed to let the priest face the congregation, in contrast to centuries of practice and in compliance with Catholicism's current aggiornamento. Cushing has encouraged all of his missionary priests to stay in tune with the times. For if there is a bit of the Last Hurrah in Boston's crusty and contrary Cardinal Cushing, there is also...
...John's takes an informal stance in its structure. The main altar faces across the narrowest part of the nave toward an upper chapel, so that in effect the nave's long dimension becomes a transept, terminated east and west by smaller altars. Architect Michelucci has also departed from custom by en folding the narthex, or entrance portico, in a gentle cloister; the church swallows its own entrance. The whole is asymmetrical, forcing the worshiper into the relaxed mood Michelucci wanted. As he says, "This church is a little city in which men should meet and recognize...
...might become an object of ridicule in the piazza. "We are an old family," Don Vincenzo tells the police. "I admit we've had some violent deaths-but outside the law, in dignity." Agnese no longer matters. She is beaten, jeered at, and finally led to the altar as if she were a schoolgirl dragged to stage center of a savage burlesque. In a grim postscript, the camera cuts from the stricken Agnese to mock the words "Honor and Family" on a nobleman's tomb...