This Altar Guild Manual is meant to be a guide and a help for those seeking to properly prepare the Altar and Altar Table for various aspects of Anglican worship. It is not all-inclusive and care should be taken to follow the guidance of your own clergy in these areas. We are not liturgical legalists so please use what is appropriate in your ...

The altar is the heart of the church. It usually stands at the east end of the chancel or presbytery, in an area known as the sanctuary. The altar has two principal symbolic meanings.

The sanctuary of a church should have as little as possible in common with a boudoir. The preparation of the altar should begin with the careful folding-up and removal to a suitable place of the dust-cloth, the setting of candlesticks in mathematically even positions, and the placing of the altar-desk or cushion at the required point.

Decisions as to whether existing liturgical furnishings should be retained, relocated, stored or disposed-of revolve around two principal issues. The first of these is how changes in liturgical needs and thinking impact upon the use of the cathedral as a sacred space.

In the Book of Common Prayer, the basis of doctrine and practice for the Church of England, there is no use of the specific word altar; the item in question is called the Lord's Table or Holy Table. This remains the official terminology, though …

Dec 28, 2020 · In the Church of England, Archbishop Cranmer implemented a policy of gradual liturgical reform. The first edition of the Book of Common Prayer (1549) retained stone altars and the ad orientem position, while moving decisively in a reformed direction in other ways. The 1549 Book uses altar and table interchangeably in the rubrics, but only uses ...

Its object is to mention each article of linen used at an ordinary Celebration of the Holy Communion, stating its size, decoration, and particulars with regard to washing, starching and ironing. Other articles used at the altar are only mentioned when necessary to …

In the Book of Common Prayer, the basis of doctrine and practice for the Church of England, there is no use of the specific word altar; the item in question is called the Lord's Table or Holy Table. This remains the official terminology, though …

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Every one who travels about England must have noticed how, in one village after another, the 'English altar' has reappeared, first in a side chapel, and then, as people saw its points, in the chancel as well.