Turning Toward the Lord: Orientation in Liturgical PrayerIntroduction by Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) Turning towards the Lord presents an historical and theological argument for the traditional, common direction of liturgical prayer, known as "facing east", and is meant as a contribution to the contemporary debate about the Catholic liturgy. Lang, a member of the London Oratory, studies the direction of liturgical prayer from an historical, theological, and pastoral point of view. At a propitious moment, this book resumes a debate that, despite appearances to the contrary, has never really gone away, not even after the Second Vatican Council. Historical research has made the controversy less partisan, and among the faithful there is an increasing sense of the problems inherent in an arrangement that hardly shows the liturgy to be open to the things that are above and to the world to come. In this situation, Lang's delightfully objective and wholly unpolemical book is a valuable guide. Without claiming to offer major new insights, Lang carefully presents the results of recent research and provides the material necessary for making an informed judgment. It is from such historical evidence that the author elicits the theological answers that he proposes. |
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... Bouyer (like Jungmann, one of the Council's leading liturgists) and Klaus Gam- ber have each in his own way taken up the same question. Despite their great reputations, they were unable to make their voices heard at first, so strong was ...
... Bouyer emphasised in 1967, that document does not at all suggest that Mass facing the people is always the preferable form of eucharistic celebration.6 The rubrics of the renewed Missale Romanum of Pope Paul VI presuppose a common ...
... Bouyer, Joseph Ratz- inger, then professor of theology at Tübingen and peritus at the Council, delivered a lecture at the Katholikentag of 1966 in Bamberg that was received with much attention. His observations have lost nothing of ...
... Bouyer, Liturgy andArchitecture ~Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1967!, 17–20. 8G. Kretschmar, 'Festkalender und MemorialstättenJerusalems in altkirchli- cher Zeit', ZDPV 87 ~1971!: 192–205. 9Kretschmar refers to B ...
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