In the liturgical traditions of Western Christianity, the Epistle side is the term used to designate the side of a church on which the Epistle is read during the Mass or Eucharist. A liturgy is the customary public worship done by a specific religious group according to their particular traditions Western Christianity is a term used to cover the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church, the Churches of the Anglican Communion, the Lutheran Church An epistle (pronounced) ( Greek επιστολη epistolē "letter" is a writing directed or sent to a person or group of persons usually a letter The Mass is the Eucharistic celebration in the Latin liturgical rites of the Roman Catholic Church. The Eucharist, also called Holy Communion or Lord's Supper and other names is a Christian Sacrament by which in a common interpretation those Facing the altar, it is the right-hand side. An altar is any structure upon which Sacrifices or other offerings are made for religious purposes or some other sacred place where ceremonies take place
The Gospel side is the other side of the church, where Gospel is read. This article is about the canonical books of the New Testament Facing the altar, it is the left-hand side.
In the Tridentine Mass and the old Book of Common Prayer, the lectern holding the Missal was moved from the Epistle side of the altar to the Gospel side after the reading of the Epistle. The Tridentine Mass (Missa Tridentina is the form of the Roman Rite Mass contained in the typical editions of the Roman Missal that were published The Book of Common Prayer is the common title of a number of prayer books of the Church of England and used throughout the Anglican Communion. A lectern (from the Latin lectus, past participle of legere, "to read" is a reading desk with a slanted top usually placed on a stand or affixed to A missal is a Liturgical book containing all instructions and texts necessary for the celebration of Mass throughout the year This is still practiced in the Extraordinary form of the Roman Rite and in some Anglo-Catholic parishes. An extraordinary form of the Roman Rite is a form other than the ordinary normal form of that rite The terms Anglo-Catholic and Anglo-Catholicism (or sometimes possibly incorrectly High Church &mdashsee below describe people
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