By Joseph Pronechen, National Catholic Register - A growing number of Catholic parishes in the U.S. are restoring altar rails, renewing reverence and transforming the faithful’s experience of the Holy Eucharist... Every Sunday at St. Anne Church in Richmond Hill, Georgia, the Hilleary family — mother Michelle, father Brian and five children — receives Communion at the altar rail... “It creates a more sacred space. And it draws your attention to the sacred,” Michelle Hilleary told the Register.
“It sets apart the sanctuary,” observed her 15-year-old daughter, Malia. ...