Credence Table
The credence table holds vessels and other items prepared for Mass. It supports the service around the altar.
Key points
- Careful preparation serves the reverent celebration of the Eucharist.
- Look for: A small side table with chalice and cruets.
- An illustrative Roman Catholic parish in the Latin rite, assembled for study rather than surveyed from a single building. Plans, devotional furnishings, music, and the locations of the font and tabernacle vary; Eastern Catholic churches have other traditions. Sizes, materials, and spacing are illustrative, and displayed vessels represent different moments of worship.