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Great Entrance

noun

, Eastern Church.
  1. the solemn procession in which the unconsecrated Eucharistic elements are carried from the prothesis through the nave of the church and into the bema.


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Example Sentences

The custodian's booth was closed, but there was a small gate in the great entrance and we walked in.

It is an imposing church of red stone, the great entrance being flanked by low, square-topped towers.

Arriving at the great entrance, you almost seem as if you were about to enter a fairy castle.

The great entrance on the west was completed in the fifteenth century.

"Alabaster, all alabaster," said Nabul, laying his hand on the stone work near the great entrance.

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