In my career as an Evangelical Protestant pastor, every church I've served has had an altar rail, as did the (similarly Evangelical Protestant) church I grew up in. It will never cease to befuddle me that so many Catholic bishops seem this eager to try to out-'low-church' us.
In my career as an Evangelical Protestant pastor, every church I've served has had an altar rail, as did the (similarly Evangelical Protestant) church I grew up in. It will never cease to befuddle me that so many Catholic bishops seem this eager to try to out-'low-church' us.
It's because nobody came in and brainwashed the congregation that the altar rail is a symbol of their subjugation as laypeople. Or something like that. Many of these Catholics, despite claiming to be ecumenically-minded, are so unfamiliar with the architecture and practices of traditional Protestant churches that they don't even realize that they have altar rails.
In my career as an Evangelical Protestant pastor, every church I've served has had an altar rail, as did the (similarly Evangelical Protestant) church I grew up in. It will never cease to befuddle me that so many Catholic bishops seem this eager to try to out-'low-church' us.
It's because nobody came in and brainwashed the congregation that the altar rail is a symbol of their subjugation as laypeople. Or something like that. Many of these Catholics, despite claiming to be ecumenically-minded, are so unfamiliar with the architecture and practices of traditional Protestant churches that they don't even realize that they have altar rails.
Or even the Protestants that celebrate Ad Orientem as well as count their Sundays as being after Pentecost