Losing My Religion: Altar Rails (episode 2)
- Souls and Liberty
- Apr 14
- 1 min read
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Have you ever wondered why so many Catholic Churches have just ripped out their altar rails? Do you even know what an altar rail is? Find out what has happened to this 'small-t tradition' in this episode.
The army of Boomer gals at my parish run around the Sanctuary before Mass like it's their kitchen at home; zero reverence. The Benny Hill theme song could be played while one 'staightens' the altar cloth after which another re-straightens it, while another licks their thumb to flip through the lectionary and then lifts the altar cloth to write notes by using the altar as a desktop (!). Then two more change the altar cloth to a different litugical color, after which the priest tells them that it was correct before they changed it, and so they have to change it back.
All of this is done with the same level of prattle found in the kitchen in the Narthex,…