Sentences with phrase «main altar»
The phrase "main altar" refers to the primary or most important altar in a religious or sacred space, such as a church or temple. It is the central place where religious ceremonies or rituals take place. Full definition
For example, it can not be decided by any theological reflection alone whether or not the tabernacle is best placed on the main altar.
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People were standing on every available surface, including the main altar.
On Saturday, July 16, 1054, as afternoon prayers were about to begin, Cardinal Humbert, legate of Pope Leo IX, strode into the Cathedral of Hagia Sophia, right up to the main altar, and placed on it a parchment that declared the Patriarch of Constantinople, Michael Cerularius, to be excommunicated.
It is deeply moving for me to celebrate the Holy Mass at the main altar in the Basilica.
Perhaps in Tabernacle practice, and certainly in later Temple practice, this was the main altar, the «altar of burnt offering» (see 30:28 and 31:9), or the «bronze altar» (38:30 and 39:39).
The incense altar (30:1 - 10), not to be confused with the main altar of burnt offering (27:1 - 8), may possibly have been employed in preprophetic Israel (that is, before the mid-eighth century B.C.); but if so it was abandoned, to appear again in post-exilic Judaism.
Then, I got a bamboo cylinder containing fortune sticks and knelt before the main altar.
The exterior of the church is of Tuscan Order, the main entrance features a Manuline style and the main altar is Baroque with some Corinthian touches.
Built out of laterite blocks covered in lime plaster, the church faces west and features a nave flanked by three chapels, plus a choir, two secondary altars, one main altar, belfry and sacristy.
Pussy Riot's «punk prayer» on the main altar of Moscow's Christ the Saviour Cathedral was more than just a simple defacement, a harmless act of buffoonery, a naïve and, after all, forgivable performance of mindless singing.