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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... Sacraments, he points us in the right direction and draws our hearts upwards. —Pope Benedict XVI Homily for the EasterVigil 22 March 2008 CONTENTS Foreword, by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger 9 Acknowledgments 13 Introduction.
... sacramental worship 106 b. The position of the celebrant and the sacrificial character of the Mass 115 128 IV Turning to the Lord 133 Abbreviations 141 Illustrations 145. c. Adoration and contemplation 1U.M. Lang, 'Conversi ad Dominum:Zu ...
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