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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... orientem and versus populum.8 He states, frankly: The Liturgical Movement certainly had a Trinitarian deficit in its. 5Cf. J. Ratzinger, The Spirit of the Liturgy, trans. J. Saward ~San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2000!, 12–23. 6Cf. R ...
... orientem—versus populum:Zum gegenwärtigen Diskus- sionsstand einer alten Streitfrage', ThRv 98 ~2002!: 15–22. 9Translating Gerhards, 'Versus orientem', 20; about the current discussion on liturgy and Church architecture, see also A ...
... of Lang, 157. 13R. Kaschewsky, 'Eine wichtige Veröffentlichung zur Zelebration versus populum', UVK 30 ~2000!: 311. 14Gerhards, 'Versus orientem', 18. 15In his very personal attack on Cardinal Ratzinger's book The 19 Introduction.
... Editoriale: Pregare “ad orientem versus”', Not 29 ~1993!: 247. 12Missale Romanum ~2002!, Institutio Generalis, no. 299. 13The text is carefully scrutinised by C. M. Cullen and 25 The Reform of the Liturgy and Position of the Celebrant.
... orientem or versus absidem was declared undesirable, if not prohibited. This interpretation however has been rejected by the Congregation for Divine Worship in a response to a question submitted by Cardinal Christoph Schönborn ...