MERGED: How many altars?/Side altars?

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Rich_C said:
Our parish has three: the high altar, and two small altars flanking it, one dedicated to the Sacred Heart, the other to the Miraculous Medal (a major devotion in our parish since WWII). The side altars are still used for daily Mass (TLM only).

Here’s a picture of the mary altar from our wedding day. It’s really something to see:
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The only thing I’m not so crazy about is the HUGE Miraculous Medal and the small crucifix. I know of a St. Josephs church that has a huge statue of St. Joseph and a tiny crucifix above the high Altar.
 
I attended Holy Thursday Mass at a different Catholic church in a different diocese out of state.
The church has the High Altar
the altar dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary
the altar dedicated to Saint Joseph
and the altar built after Vatican II.
 
Blessed Sacrament Roman Catholic Church in Pennsylvania has:
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   The Main Altar                
        The Blessed Virgin Mary Altar     
    The Saint Joseph Altar
 
My parish church has only one freestanding altar, since it is actually an old house refurbished in the 1980s to serve as a church.
 
St. Ambrose Roman Catholic Church has a main altar.
There is a side Blessed Virgin Mary altar.
There is a side St. Joseph altar.
 
The church is small and has historical status. There is a main altar and 2 side altars - one has statues of Mary, St. Anne with a young Mary and St. Joseph. The other side altar has statues of the Sacred Heart, St. Florian and St. Anthony.
 
bben15 said:
In my regular parish, we only have one altar; it is freestanding.

But in the parish in the next town, the church was not renovated after Vatican II, so it still has the high altar, with two side altars: one dedicated to Mary, other to Joseph. Even part of the communion rails still remain! :extrahappy:

They have put another altar in front of the high altar in order to celebrate the Novus Ordo versus populum.

However, most of the kneelers have been removed from the pews for some reason. 😦

Here are a few pictures from that parish. You can’t see the communion rails, but they are there. The church looks even more beautiful in person:
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My parish has two side chapel that are Ad orientem one of them is dedicated to are lady and the other to St. John Fisher and Thomas More. The side chapels never get use to celebrate the mass but one of them do get used on Maundy Thursday as the alter of repose for the blessed sacrament. The main alter use to be Ad orientem but when the Second Vatican council came the alter was move in the centre of the sanctuary so that the priest is facing the people .
 
CyrilSebastian said:
Rich C, The Blessed Virgin Mary altar is extremely beautiful.
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It is breathtaking.

Rich, is there a history behind the medal? Not the history of the miraculous medal/ Catherine Labouré in general but that particular large one. Who made it? Where did it come from? What is it made of?

Where can I get one? 😃

-Tim-
 
Our parish was built decades before Vatican II, so it has a high alter of repose with a freestanding alter installed in the 1960s. There are two side alters–one dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the other to Our Lady of Fatima. Although these are not alters within the sanctuary, we also have the old chapel off to the side and behind the main sanctuary which is dedicated to the Holy Family and a new chapel outside and behind the sacristy which is a nondescript chapel with statutes of the Blessed Mother here and there.
 
Queen of the Holy Rosary Church in Vienna, Ohio has the High Altar.
 
In St. Peter Cathedral in Erie, Pennsylvania, the sanctuary area contains the altar with the reliquary chest beneath it.
The 1911 marble altar at the rear of the sanctuary was used when the Latin Mass was celebrated.
 
We have 2.5. I say two and a half because there’s the two altars in the church proper (one in the usual place, the other in a chapel to the left – we have the traditional cross-based interior design) and one altar in the parish hall attached. I don’t know if that altar is consecrated or not; at any rate; it isn’t used for services.
 
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