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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... worthy celebration of the sacred liturgy. I wish the book a wide and attentive readership. Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger Rome, Laetare Sunday 2003 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I am happy to acknowledge my debt to all 12 Turning towards the Lord.
Orientation in Liturgical Prayer Michael Lang. Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger Rome, Laetare Sunday 2003 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I am happy to acknowledge my debt to all.
... Rome, nulla est in sal- utatione necessaria conversio, quia sacerdos in illis celebrans semper ad populum stat conversus' ~Durandus, Rationale divinorum officiorum V, II, 57:CChr.CM 140A, 42–43!. 25Nußbaum, Der Standort des Liturgen, 1 ...
... Rome: Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum, 1999!, 463–69. A trace of this practice may still be found in the custom where the congregation turns to- wards the door of the synagogue to greet the Sabbath, while the hymn Lekha dodi is ...