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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... Ro- manum: Eine Untersuchung über die Veränderungen', Ecclesia Orans 19 ~2002!: 278, n. 72. 16J. Ratzinger, 'Catholicism after the Council', trans. P. Russell, The 27 The Reform of the Liturgy and Position of the Celebrant.
... Standort des Liturgen am christlichen Altar vor dem Jahre 1000:Eine archäologische und liturgiegeschichtliche Untersuchung, Theoph 18 ~Bonn: Hanstein, 1965!, 1:22, and B. Neunheuser, 'Eucharistief- 28 Turning towards the Lord.
... Hanssens, Studi e Testi, 139, 1:288–90. On Amalarius, see now W. Steck, Der Liturgiker Amalarius:Eine quellenkritische Untersuchung zu Leben undWerk einesTheologen der Karolingerzeit, MThS.H 35 30 Turning towards the Lord.
... Untersuchung zu Leben undWerk einesTheologen der Karolingerzeit, MThS.H 35 ~Munich: St. Ottilien: EOS-Verlag, 2000!. 24'In ecclesiis vero ostia ab oriente habentibus, ut Rome, nulla est in sal- utatione necessaria conversio, quia ...
... Kings 8:38, 44, 48, and the corresponding instructions in the Mish- nah, Berakhot 4, 5, and the Tosefta, Berakhot 3, 15–16. 7Cf. E. Peterson, Frühkirche, Judentum und Gnosis: Studien und Untersuchun- 36 Turning towards the Lord.