You then hover nervously outside the vestry until the Dean arrives to put the incense into the thurible (a move that somehow ...

Yours, etc, Sir, –Your correspondent John Kelly is correct – the person who swings the thurible, usually an altar boy, is called a thurifer (Letters, April 9th). I fondly remember, as an altar ...

World, April 5th) includes a description of an altar server “swinging a thurifer as it pumped out thick gusts of incense”. I was under the impression that the container is a thurible which is ...

Track and field has been around since the start of the Olympics in Ancient Greece in 776 B.C. It was created alongside religious events and celebrations for the Greek gods where men (no women were ...

Whenever used, the smoldering incense is deployed via a thurible. A priest, deacon, or altar server — the designated “thurifer” — often has help from a “boat bearer.” This usually is another altar ...

“I recall carrying the thurifer. Or was it thurible?” Peter Ackroyd is remembering his days in the late 1950s as an altar server in his local Catholic parish church in Acton, west ...

Peace in the Israel-Palestine conflict had already been difficult to achieve before Hamas’s barbarous October 7 attack and Israel’s military response. Now it seems almost impossible, but its ...

Or maybe — if the gasps and guffaws I heard in my theater are any indication — audiences are mostly there to watch a headmistress being bludgeoned to death by a thurible. The Nun II Rated R ...

Since long before The Lost Symbol, Freemasons have been accused of everything from conspiring with extraterrestrials to practicing sexual deviancy to engaging in occult rituals to running the ...

Tools like ChatGPT and Dall-E give the appearance of being able to carry out creative tasks – such as writing a poem or painting a picture – in a way that’s often indistinguishable from what ...