Tabernacle

The tabernacle is a cupboard or boxlike container for the exclusive reservation of the Most Holy Eucharist. Housing the Sacred Hosts allows people to pray before Jesus Himself, and provides a store of Hosts that can be drawn upon so that the homebound and hospitalized can receive Holy Communion when visited by a priest or Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion. The word "tabernacle" comes from the Latin tabernaculum - a tent.