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Epistle side

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The right side of an altar or church from the perspective of a person looking from the nave toward the chancel.

    "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."

Etymology

Traditionally, the Epistle is read from this side.

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