ciborium
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- noun
- /sɪˈbɔːriəm/
- Specialized
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ciborio
- The priest took the ciborium out of the tabernacle, and I, as altar server, rang a bell every few steps so the other Sisters could hear us coming and knew they had to kneel.
Examples
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He emerged in a purple funerary stole, carrying a gold ciborium in one hand and an ornate metal censer in the other.
Fiction book (1993) -
"For the one young girl, Father has a small ciborium with a low gluten host.
Blog text (31) -
These people may open the tabernacle and put a ciborium on an altar or put the lunette with a Host in a monstrance.
Blog text (29) -
How is having a whole host of EMHCs distributing from the priests' hands to their ciborium to their hands to another set of hands going to prevent the spread of a virus?
Blog text (6) -
During the Eucharist, the priest carefully places the consecrated bread into the ciborium for the congregation.
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In our church, the ciborium is kept on the altar to hold the sacred Hosts after the Mass.
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Before the service, the altar server cleaned the ciborium to ensure it was ready for the holy bread.
Synonyms
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A small metal container used in church to hold thin pieces of bread a priest blesses
How Decorative
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Surface Forms
Etymology
The word ciborium also comes from the old word kibōrion meaning 'cup' or 'container'. So a ciborium in church is the covered 'cup' that holds the bread used in Communion.