* The bride holding onto her father's arm should walk very slowly down the aisle so the groom and guests can enjoy how stunning she looks. True, brides have a glow about them. This also gives the photographer a chance to take pictures. There will be a rehearsal a couple of days before the wedding at the church and the bride; father of the bride; Maid of Honor and Bridesmaids will be instructed as to how slowly they should come down the aisle.
Roman Catholic AnswerThe altar (and the priest when he is at the altar) are contained in the sanctuary of the Church.
The Altar - 2006 was released on: USA: 4 March 2006 (Black Women Film Festival)
Many brides make their way to the altar to the traditional "Bridal Chorus" from Wagner's Lohengrin and exit to Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" from A Midsummer Night's Dream. Some brides do walk down the aisle to Pachebel's "Canon in D."
An altar card is one of a set of three cards placed on the altar during a Tridentien mass, containing prayer texts.
The Broken Altar - 2013 was released on: USA: 10 March 2013 (Chicago Underground Film Festival)
An altar bell is a bell rung in the Roman Catholic church at significant times during the Mass.
An altar wine is a particular variety of wine produced for consumption during the Roman Catholic Mass.
Usually, one of the altar servers will hold the crosier, handing and taking it to or from the bishop.
The "altar stone" is the true altar. The rest of the "altar" is not strictly speaking an altar, but the support for the altar. The altar stone usually has the relics of saints contained within it, and it should be covered with three clothes, although nowadays, many places dispense with the lower two. Symbolically, the linen cloth (the topmost cloth that covers the altar) signifies the linen in which the dead body of Our Lord was wrapped.
In Mass, the altar is where the miracle of Jesus turning bread into His Body and the wine into His Blood as in the Last Supper Jesus had with His apostles is re-presented.Catholic AnswerA Catholic Altar is for the same purpose that all altars are erected-for sacrifice. The sacrifice of Our Blessed Lord on the Cross is re-presented on the altar.
I believe you are referring to the Altar and altar-communion rail. In that sense, yes. there is also the Reservation of the Sacrament- usually Dead center on the Altar, though some have it off to one side.
images of saints and a crucifix