Temporary altar for the eucharist to be used on Good Friday
Altar of repose at St James Episcopal Church, Columbus, Ohio where Eucharistic hosts are reserved in a veiled ciborium overnight from Maundy Thursday to Good Friday.
The altar of repose is a temporary altar where the Communion hosts consecrated on Maundy Thursday during the Mass of the Lord's Supper are placed, or "reserved", for use on the following day, Good Friday.
As Good Friday is the day on which the death of Christ is observed, while the Resurrection of Jesus is observed on Easter Sunday and the anticipatory Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday, Mass may not be celebrated between these days, namely, between Good Friday and the evening Easter Vigil Mass on Holy Saturday which is usually celebrated after sundown. Communion hosts thus cannot be consecrated, and any hosts used on Good Friday or for viaticum for the dying must have been consecrated beforehand.
This structure can be found in Roman Catholic, Old Catholic, Anglican (especially Anglo-Catholic), and some Lutheran churches.
The altarofrepose is a temporary altar where the Communion hosts consecrated on Maundy Thursday during the Mass of the Lord's Supper are placed, or "reserved"...
procession to a place ofreposition away from the main body of the church, which, if it involves an altar, is often called an "altarofrepose". In some places...
churches on the evening of Holy Thursday. Following the Mass of the Lord's Supper, the Blessed Sacrament is placed on the AltarofRepose in the church for...
stripping of all altars except the altarofrepose, leaving only the cross and candlesticks. In the present form as revised in 1955, the altar is stripped...
ends abruptly with a somber procession of the Blessed Sacrament, which is brought to the church's AltarofRepose. Churches remain open until midnight for...
tabernacle, if on the high altar or otherwise in the sanctuary, to the AltarofRepose, and reserved from the end of the Mass of the Lord's Supper until...
taking it to the place ofreposition. The altar is later stripped bare, as are all other altars in the church except the AltarofRepose. In pre-1970 editions...
a chalice during the service as a sign of his ministry. In the West the deacon carries the chalice to the altar at the offertory; in the East, the priest...
humeral veil from the high altar to an altarofrepose, to the accompaniment of music. The service may also include hymns. The first of these may be called the...
Maundy Thursday during the procession of the Blessed Sacrament to the altarofrepose. The last two verses of Pange Lingua are also used as a separate...
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for works in a number of churches, most notably the altarofrepose at the Mdina cathedral. Pietro Paolo Troisi was the son of Carlo Antonio Troisi and...
or aumbry safe, either attached to a fixed altar or placed behind or to one side of a free-standing altar. Reserved sacrament is often used when visiting...
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visit to the AltarsofRepose improperly called Tomb. See AltarofRepose. Holy Friday: in all the parishes Passion of the Lord, ligation of the Bells replaced...
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