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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Orientation in Liturgical Prayer Michael Lang. CONTENTS Foreword, by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger 9 Acknowledgments 13 ... Liturgy, and Church Architecture in the Early Church 35 1. Facing East: The Christian Direction of Prayer 35 2. The ...
Orientation in Liturgical Prayer Michael Lang. The Liturgical Movement ... liturgy of the Second Vatican Council'. Be that as it may, Gerhards concedes ... architecture, see also A. Gerhards, 'Wort und Sakrament—Zur Bipolarität von ...
Orientation in Liturgical Prayer Michael Lang. ident of the Consilium, states that ... liturgy of the word is celebrated at the chair, ambo or lectern, and ... Architecture ~Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1967!, 105–6 ...
Orientation in Liturgical Prayer Michael Lang. II Direction of Prayer, Liturgy, and Church Architecture in the Early Church 1. Facing East: The Christian Direction of Prayer In most major religions, the position taken in prayer and the ...
Orientation in Liturgical Prayer Michael Lang. after the destruction of the Temple, the prevailing custom of turning towards Jerusalem for prayer was kept in the liturgy of the ... Prayer, Liturgy, Church Architecture in the Early Church.