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--- Adam Walker <carrajena@hidden.email> wrote:
> --- Isaac Penzev <isaacp@hidden.email> wrote:
> > I agree. But what about considering of moving
> the
> > cathedra/bemah/pulpit
> > (whatever you call it) to the center on the
> > congregation as they do in
> > synagogues? It permits the reader still to be
> faced
> > mizrach (conventional
> > "east"), but the congragation is able to turn
> and
> > watch him, facing the
> > bemah in the center!
> >
> > -- Yitzik
>
>
> Clever, but it would mean a rather different
> exterior
> architecture as well as interior. You'd end up
> with a
> building shaped like a synagogue or a mosque
> rather
> than a cruciform church with naves, etc.
> Wasn't that structure established really early?
They were, but as far as I know, there's no fixed
"pulpit" like you get in Western churches. In the
Eastern churches I've been to (admittedly, a
small sample!), one of the assistants or altar
servers holds the Gospel book. See here:
<http://clarionherald.org/20030226/art003.htm>
Note that the church itself is a Western Catholic
church (note the large pulpit off to the left
which is not being used by the priest).
Padraic.
> Adam
Almighty and Eternal God,
help us to realise that we are no longer the young and the restless;
but help us all remember that we have one life to live;
let us remain always close to you, walking not in Ryan's hope,
but in Christian hope, for our destination is Heaven, not J.R.'s Dallas.
May mothers and fathers of our community always pray to You "Bless
and protect all my children."
Like sands in the hour glass, so these are the days of our lives;
and so, as the world turns, and as some of us have to visit the Doctors
and the general hospital, may we always keep You dear, God,
as the Guiding Light.
Then, we won't be concerned with a foolish search for tomorrow,
walking on the edge of night. For together, dear Lord,
we will be able to create and build another world. Amen.
Rev. Carl A. Fisher, SSJ
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