You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. To Catholics, incense is prayer in action. “It makes you more mindful of ...

Ah, incense. As the priest rhythmically swings the censer, the aromatic smoke from the burning incense, with its sweet fragrance of frankincense and myrrh, rises and fills the sanctuary. Then the ...

The Torah informs us that the Ark (Aron-Exodus 25:11), the Table (Shulhan –Exodus 25:24) and the Altar of Incense (Mizbeiah Miktar Ketoret – Exodus 30:3) were all decorated with rims. Why is this so?

Q: What is the big deal about incense at church and where in the Bible does this come from? A: This question was posed to yours truly by a student, who apparently did not think a great deal of the ...

Billowing clouds of incense at Mass and the inability to receive Communion can force some Catholics to cover their face or get out of the pew because of allergies and a sensitivity to wheat.

AN interesting article by Dr. Max Ohnefalsch-Richter appears in Globus of November 17 (xcviii., pp. 293–7), m which he brings forward data to prove his earlier supposition that the first site of ...

Many Japanese people are checking their incense stocks to make sure they are prepared for Obon. A Japanese Buddhist custom, 盆 Bon (or お盆 Obon) takes place for three days in the middle of August, at ...