Sentence examples for altar rail from inspiring English sources

A carved interior balcony was originally a church altar rail.

Beyond the altar rail is the holy bit.

"We can get through this if we keep coming to the altar rail," he said.

In my own church, St Mary's, Newington, a low altar rail separates the pews from the sanctuary.

Several more knelt at the brass altar rail, their heads bowed before the half-inch-square bit of cloth.

In the darkness at the altar rail, I would hold the wafer in my mouth, allowing it to become wet with the wine that burned my throat.

Father Modrys said altar rails have often been removed in the spirit of Vatican II.

We had to pick our way past a recumbent plain-clothed nun to the altar rails.

At the altar rails, a Mayan couple were praying; irreverent eavesdropping disclosed a Catholic prayer, in Spanish.

One imagines him at the end, in Inwood, back near all the altar rails and gymnasiums and boiled Irish verities from which he had never fled very far.

But as she knelt before her brother at the altar rails, while he raised the cup or again wiped clean its rim, she knew that all this was meant to be.