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Vette Eaterr
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 Posted - Jan 04 2008 : 4:51:39 PM
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Ok, it's 2015, Hilary is now calling herself president for life and you can't leave you house for fear of your life. Some wandering priest shows up at your house looking for a place to stay and comes with nothing but the clothes on his back. Now how in the world is he going to say a mass for you? Well for some reason I've alway thought that this is a real possibility. So I built a small box that unfolds into a small alter from which a priest could say mass from. To imagine it, it would look full sized to Barbie. It's stocked with a missal, holy water, cross, holy candles, a tabernacle and even has statues. It's slightly smaller than a shoe box. I'll take some pics of it when I get off of work.
Now let me remind everyone, I'm not a master wood worker, nor even a kinda ok one, so keep that in mind. But other then my lack of wood working skills who thinks I'm crazy?
Bob
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Stormy
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Posted - Jan 04 2008 : 6:50:52 PM
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You are prepared huh  Cant wait to see the pics.
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Vette Eaterr
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Posted - Jan 14 2008 : 3:45:39 PM
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OK Sorry for the delay, been sick and work has been kicking my butt.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22829578@N04/
They are in reverse order, so start at the bottom right and work your way left and up.
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Posted - Jan 15 2008 : 7:23:47 PM
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This is a very nice family altar. You are to be commended on you wood working skills. It is great that you provide a place for a relic.
If this would be for a priest’s use when he is traveling make sure you have room for the chalice, unconsecrated communion wafers and a small bottle for the wine and one for the water. You also need room the purificators and the white altar cloth.
I have seen a priest kit that also unfolded table like into the altar it self. This becomes handy for the priest when he is called to say Mass out in the field where tables are not available.
You have a good idea here. I have also seen priests having to use a suitcase and folding table for Mass. Yours is much more reverent.
Bill
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JRJ
Mary's Servant
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Posted - Jan 16 2008 : 07:03:44 AM
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Vette Eaterr
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Posted - Jan 16 2008 : 4:08:30 PM
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It's a work in progress, I've been adding things to it for a year or two now when I come across things. The idea for the wafer storage is an idea I didn't have, maybe some sort of a trap door for items so it could be closed and not be noticed.
The field altar is kinda where I got my idea from. I saw one on ebay a few years ago, looked like a suitcase with legs that screwed on to make a table. The seller said it was from the 1860's or so, hauled around on horse back. It sold for way more then I could have afforded, about $1800.
My handiness come from my mother, my dad not so much...lol
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Mommy
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Posted - Mar 22 2008 : 09:15:41 AM
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Clairvaux
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Posted - Apr 06 2008 : 01:41:19 AM
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Originally posted by Sir William
This is a very nice family altar. You are to be commended on you wood working skills. It is great that you provide a place for a relic.
If this would be for a priest’s use when he is traveling make sure you have room for the chalice, unconsecrated communion wafers and a small bottle for the wine and one for the water. You also need room the purificators and the white altar cloth.
I have seen a priest kit that also unfolded table like into the altar it self. This becomes handy for the priest when he is called to say Mass out in the field where tables are not available.
You have a good idea here. I have also seen priests having to use a suitcase and folding table for Mass. Yours is much more reverent.
Bill
During the 2-1/2 years I have taken care of my elderly parents full time..and they could not leave the house...my grandson needed to be baptised. So, our parish priest decided we should have it at the house. I pulled out a 2 door cabinet, not too heavy, but high enough and big enough. I bought a $5.00 lace table cloth from the dollar store that has the Lord's Supper on it, and our priest was as pleased as punch. Then 2 months ago my mom died. So, again, at the house, we had a Memorial Mass with me, my daughter, and my dad. Again, lovely. You can use any table because it's really the lovely white cloth you drape over that makes it lovely. |
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La Pucelle
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Posted - Jun 13 2008 : 12:09:03 PM
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I wonder how many priests and bishops in Communist countries (or in Islamic countries like Saudi and Pakistan, where Christianity is very curtailed and controlled)would like something like this to take with them while traveling around and giving the sacraments undercover?
Shawna
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Portable Alter For a Preist to say Mass
