epistle side

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In this Methodist church, the lectern is on the epistle side (right of the picture), and the pulpit is on the gospel side

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Etymology

Traditionally, the Epistle is read from this side.

Noun

epistle side (plural epistle sides)

  1. (religion) The right side of an altar or church from the perspective of a person looking from the nave toward the chancel.
    • 1848, anonymous author, The Rite of the Consecration of a Bishop in the Catholic Church:
      the Consecrating Bishop washes his hands, and goes up to the Altar; and the newly consecrated goes to the Epistle side of the same Altar, and having there a Missal placed for him, he accompanies the Consecrating Bishop through the remaining part of the Mass.

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