National Catholic Register: The Domestic Church in Quarantine Makes Good Use of Home Altars
National Catholic Register: Home Altars Put God in His Place (of Honor)
At the front of the church, altar servers move quietly through one of the most sacred parts of the Catholic Mass. They carry candles, hold the cross, ring bells and ...
Prayerful spaces aid Catholic families at this time. Families across the country decorate dedicated spaces in their homes to gather their domestic churches for prayer, including the Andersons in North ...
The Advocate: Celebrate the feast day of St. Joseph at churches or at home with your own altar
Soon enough, if not already, fig cookies, lemons and fava beans will adorn pied St. Joseph Altars at local Catholic churches to celebrate the feast day of the saint. The tradition dates back to the ...
Celebrate the feast day of St. Joseph at churches or at home with your own altar
As soon as she was old enough, third-grader Ellen Clarke joined the first wave of girl altar servers, helping break up a club reserved for Roman Catholic boys for centuries. Seven years later, the ...
An altar is a table or platform for the presentation of religious offerings, for sacrifices, or for other ritualistic purposes. Altars are found at shrines, temples, churches, and other places of worship. They are used particularly in Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, and modern paganism.
The meaning of ALTAR is a usually raised structure or place on which sacrifices are offered or incense is burned in worship —often used figuratively to describe a thing given great or undue precedence or value especially at the cost of something else.