Assertion: altar | /r/HasProperty | symbol
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text: The kiss, for example, is symbolic for Christ whom the altar represents; 65 the stripping of the altar on Good Friday while the Priest recites Psalm 21—the very prayer of Christ on the cross—is symbolic of Christ's passion; the wiping of the altar at its consecration, the five crosses as signs of Christ's wounds, the consecration with chrism, whose name in Greek (Xristos) was always associated with Christ by the early Christians, and finally the many prayers of consecration of an altar recited by the consecrating Bishop, are only further proof that the altar is the figure and symbol of Christ Himself.