An excellent post from Fr Bede Rowe on why we should not treat the altar as a table, casually resting our hands on it, putting things on it for convenience's sake and so on.
This relates very much to my previous posts (here, and here, and here, for example) on the sanctuary as a holy space. The altar is a sacred object. Unless we behave accordingly, we undermine our belief that it is in fact so.
Liturgy for When You were Pleased a Meeting was Delayed but Now you've
realised there's another meeting at the original time that you will have to
attend after all
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1 I was glad when they said to me the Meeting of the Moot has been delayed
2 For every meeting delayed is another meeting where the world might end
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3 comments:
It's what you think, it's what Fr Rowe thinks, it's certainly what I think, it's what we could show that catholics have always thought: so why isn't it "law"?
I take it that's a rhetorical question, Ttony?
Sadly it probably wouldn't make much difference in some parishes even if it were law. I too thought Fr Bede's piece was excellent.
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