There are two stories about how the name of this altar came about.
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The sweetly irreverent new musical "Altar Boyz," about a boy band singing Jesus's praises over a funky bass line, gives all five of its proselytizing pretty boys a chance to twinkle in the spotlight.
Near the altar sat about 200 priests in white linen vestments, some of whom had played football or table tennis with Father Larry, as he was known, and others who were familiar only with the grim facts: that a gunman had burst in on 9 a.m.
California's same-gender couples no longer have to do an anxious and cautious walk to the altar worrying about state rulings yo-yoing them around.
A pristine altar panel of about the same time by Sassetta, "St.
His son's funeral was a modest but elegant ceremony with the front of the altar adorned with about three dozen large floral arrangements.
(In her play "A Rat's Mass," from 1966, two children have rat tails and worship at a Catholic altar, while shouting about Nazis as an imminent threat).
On a mild evening when the setting sun lit the white, multi-steepled main tower of Riverside Church, a panel of seven former Attica prisoners sat on a row of chairs before the altar and talked about the uprising.
