The priest and deacon prostrate themselves before the altar at the beginning of the Good Friday services as a sign of deep reverence and of deep anguish for the suffering Christ.
The deacon and priest venerate the altar by kissing it. Whetherr or not they lay hands is up to them, and nothing forbids that for either priest or deacon. The rite only calls for the kiss; I suspect the "laying of hands" on the altar is more for support
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They are usually deacons. The children who assist are called altar severs.
"Shanty", by Jonathan Edwards. AKA "The Friday Song"
'Lay people' is a term reffered to the common man by the church. Where there are priests and nuns and the people who attend the ceremony is termed as lay people.
The people who only had a privileged are the priests and Lay people especially during communion.
K.D. Aubert She played Donna in Friday After Next.
She formed the Missionaries of Charity which includes not only sisters but also brothers, priests as well as lay volunteers.
While women cannot be ordained in the Catholic Church, they can still fill any other role of a lay person. They can become extraordinary ministers of the Eucharist, lectors, teachers of theology, altar servers, etc. Some diocese have even appointed women to be the chancellor of the diocese - the right hand 'man' to the bishop, a position traditionally held by a senior priest.
Priests or clergy. In Judaism, they are rabbis. In some faiths, lay persons also perform certain activities in the practice of religion.
Roman Catholic AnswerYes, anyone can "bless" someone or something, but no, not an official Church blessing, for blessings from the Ritual, or official blessings at Mass, for instance, you need an ordained member of the clergy.
The Aztecs lay the victim on an altar on top of one of the pyramids, and they would take a special obsidian knife and cut out the human heart. They would then fling the body down the steps of the pyramid.