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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... Saint Pius V whereas the priest's 'turning towards the people' belongs to the Novus Ordo Mass of Pope Paul VI. It is also widely assumed by the general public that the celebration of Mass 'facing the people' is required, indeed even ...
... Saint Pius X and is central to Sacrosanctum Concilium, demanded the celebration towards the people.18 The aim of this study will be to counter these arguments in a twofold way. First, an examination of the. 16J. Ratzinger, 'Catholicism ...
... Saint Pius V issued in 1570. The Ritus servandus deals with the case where the altar is directed to the east and, at the same time, towards the people (altare sit ad ori- entem, versus populum). This is indeed the state of affairs in ...
... Saint Augustine, a 'hearer' of this re- ligion for some years before his conversion, reports that the Manicheans, in their prayers, used to follow the course of. 1F.J. Dölger, Sol salutis: Gebet und Gesang im christlichen Altertum: Mit ...
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