Post-Epistle: Servers move Missal from Epistle side of the altar to the Gospel side of the altar.
Then, with genuflections, switch the chalice veil from the Gospel side to the Epistle side with the Missal at the same time.
Until 1960, the Tridentine form of the Roman Missal laid down that at the Epistle side of the altar a candle should be placed that was to be lit at the elevation.
The windows on the Epistle side depict events from the life of Christ including the Nativity, Crucifixion and Resurrection.
One is the Baptistry on the Epistle side of the building.
After the ablutions, the celebrant goes to the Epistle side of the altar and reads the communion antiphon in the low voice.
The side altar on the Epistle side is dedicated to the Sacred heart of Jesus.
The chalice was prepared just after the subdeacon had sung the Epistle, with the ministers seated at the Epistle side of the sanctuary.
The lectern, or Epistle side, remains as it was and by this it can be deduced that it was part of a larger work.
It was endowed in 1397 by Pedro Fernández de Burgos and his wife Maria Fernandez, who are buried on the Epistle side of the wall.