The church tabernacle holding the Blessed Sacrament should be immovably fixed to the altar and, unless another position was thought to be more appropriate, should normally be at the main altar.

The Ottoman Turks did not normally force the Christians to become Muslims, and they appeared remarkably tolerant toward the church.

When Christianity was legalized under Constantine the Great and Licinius, formal church buildings were built in great numbers, normally with free-standing altars in the middle of the sanctuary, which in all the earliest churches built in Rome was at the west end of the church.

The festival normally centres on a charity gala day in June, when various groups including Scouts, church groups and schools parade through the town, finishing with a large fête in the grounds of Swakeleys House.

In Britain these would normally be built on the south side of the church so to some extent protect the living quarters from the cold air from the north.

In connection with fairs and public market days, communities are allowed four days per year ( normally Sundays ) when shops may be open outside the normal restrictions ; however, such shop openings may not take place during primary church services and must close by 6 p. m. Bakeries may open for business at 5: 30 a. m. and may also open for a limited time on Sundays.

Mr. Bean often seems unaware of basic aspects of the way the world works, and the programme usually features his attempts at what would normally be considered simple tasks, such as going swimming, using a television set, redecorating or going to church.

Church-run games, however, are normally weekly affairs held on the church premises.

Confession does not take place in a confessional, but normally in the main part of the church itself, usually before an analogion ( lectern ) set up near the iconostasion.

Cases normally originate in the tribunal of the particular church ( i. e. the diocese or eparchy ) of the parties to the case.

Youth for Christ opened a youth center in Ocean Spring, MS, so that kids who wouldn ’ t normally go to church could go on Saturday evenings and skateboard, play pool, hang out with their friends and learn about Jesus Christ.

Sacred Harp singing normally occurs not in church services, but in special gatherings or " singings " arranged for the purpose.

He had been hiding in a church, which is normally considered a refugee safe house

Prime Ministers have normally attended this church for Sunday morning worship when in residence at Chequers.

The dates of their celebration are now normally determined by national Roman Catholic hierarchies and not by the universal calendar of the church.

From the church, the nunnery normally stood to the north and the canons ' lodgings to the south.

The Welsh word ' llan ' signified a religious enclosure, normally one dedicated to a particular saint ( this corresponds, today, to ' church of ').

They are not normally considered to be a house church, as they are not self-governing.

The Advent calendar is normally shaped like a large greeting card, but it can be found in other shapes, such as a three-dimensional model of a house or church.

They tend to use tents or other temporary structures, or buildings normally used for another purpose, such as a church or school.

It was normally placed on the piers separating the parts of a templon in a Byzantine church.

* In the Greek practice, this will normally be located along the southern wall of the church, on the kliros.

During this period of time, the church would normally censor that type of work, however Santa Maria who like Ramirez was also a native of San Juan, Puerto Rico, overlooked his obligations and cleared it for publication.

* Center for Dulcinian studies of the evangelic church ( in italian ) organizes a yearly Dulcinian meeting

The museum currently serves as a umbrella institution which organizes permanent and temporary exhibits in the former church buildings.

The church itself must be repaired.

We shall not make a decisive advance in the ecumenical movement until such a church begins to see itself not merely as a haven of comfort and peace but as a base of Christian witness and mission to the world.

But Parker as the ultra-liberal minister within the pale of a church which had proclaimed itself the repository of liberality poses a different problem, which is not to be resolved by holding him up as the champion of freedom.

Some bishops were initially reluctant to attend, fearing that the meeting would declare itself a council with power to legislate for the church ; but it agreed to pass only advisory resolutions.

Since the break the Church of England, an established national church, still considers itself part of the broader Western Catholic tradition as well as being the " mother church " of the worldwide Anglican Communion.

Baptism ( from the Greek noun Βάπτισμα baptisma ; itself derived from baptismos, washing ) is a Christian rite of admission ( or adoption ), almost invariably with the use of water, into the Christian Church generally and also a particular church tradition.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( the LDS Church or, colloquially, the Mormon Church ) is a Christian primitivist church that considers itself to be a restoration of the church founded by Jesus Christ.

Eventually, the church adopted a policy of excommunicating its members found practicing polygamy and today seeks to actively distance itself from “ fundamentalist ” groups still practicing polygamy.

Distancing itself from polygamy, the church began engaging, first with mainstream American culture, and then with international cultures, particularly those of Latin America, by sending out thousands of missionaries across the globe.

The church itself was built in 1894, and an annex larger in footprint than the original structure was added in 1906.

However, the church in communion with the Bishop of Rome, both in its Western form and in that of the Eastern Catholic Churches, has always considered itself to be the historic Catholic Church, with all others as " non-Catholics " and regularly refers to itself as " the Catholic Church ".

On May 4, 1811, however, the Christian Association constituted itself as a congregationally governed church.

They consider new doctrines not derived from the sealed canon of Scripture to be both impossible and unnecessary whether proposed by church councils or by more recent prophets ( even though the canon itself was fixed by these councils ).

In the latter case, the possible location of the authorship could have been within the church of Ephesus itself.

In this work he depicted a land where there would be freedom of religion-showing a Jew treated fairly and equally in an island of Christians, but it has been debated whether this work had influenced others reforms, such as greater rights for women, the abolition of slavery, elimination of debtors ' prisons, separation of church and state, and freedom of political expression, although there is no hint of these reforms in The New Atlantis itself.

It is notable that, in the gospel, the community still appears to define itself primarily against Judaism, rather than as part of a wider Christian church.

The music itself is rather basic — church music at the time placed a large gap between written and performance practice — embellishments were largely placed in the hands of the performers ' tastes, although the Vatican score itself was altered largely by performers and visitors over the years.

" Many of the anarchists were ardent freethinkers ; reprints from freethought papers such as Lucifer, the Light-Bearer, Freethought and The Truth Seeker appeared in Liberty ... The church was viewed as a common ally of the state and as a repressive force in and of itself ".

Witch hunts were enough of a cultural problem in Europe that even as early as 785, the church made the burning of witches a crime itself punishable by death.

The grant itself is addressed directly to Saint Andrew, the patron saint of the church, a usage parallelled by other charters in the same archive.

The film continues to cause controversy ; in February 2007 the Church of St Thomas the Martyr in Newcastle upon Tyne held a public screening in the church itself, with song-sheets, organ accompaniment, stewards in costume and false beards for female members of the audience ( alluding to an early scene where a group of women disguise themselves as men so that they are able to take part in a stoning ).