We call to God with smells and bells. (incense and the Catholic Mass)(Column)(Brief Article)

From: National Catholic Reporter | Date: January 12, 1996| Author: Martinez, Demetria | Copyright information

Each day we breathe about 23,040 times. "Smells coat us, swirl around us, enter our bodies, emanate from us," writes Diane Ackerman in A Natural History of the Senses.

Why then would one want to eliminate incense from Mass?

This is precisely what Fr. Roger Karban proposes in his thought-provoking article, "Use of incense has unsavory past" (NCR, Dec. 8).

Used by pagans to cover the stench of burning flesh from animal sacrifices, incense was adopted by the ...

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