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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... .5 Reinhard Meßner refers to the 'eminentlyeschatologicalmeaning'oforientationatprayer;itdirects Christian. 4Translating ibid., 157. 5Cf. J. Ratzinger, The Spirit of the Liturgy, trans. J. 16 Turning towards the Lord Turning to the Lord.
... trans. J. Saward ~San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2000!, 12–23. 6Cf. R. Meßner, Einführung in die Liturgiewissenschaft, UTB 2173 ~Paderborn:Schöningh, 2001!, 198; see now also R. Meßner, 'Gebetsrichtung, Altar und die exzentrische Mitte ...
... 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.
... trans. P. Russell, The Furrow 18 ~1967!: 11–12. 17B. Fischer, 'Die Grundaussagen der Liturgie-Konstitution und ihre Rezep- tion in fünfundzwanzig Jahren', in Becker, Hilberath, and Willers, Gottesdienst– Kirche–Gesellschaft, 422–23 ...
... trans. J. Saward ~San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2000!, 174, cf. 171–77. See also the critical remarks of M. Kun- zler, 'La liturgia all'inizio del Terzo Millennio', in Il Concilio Vaticano II: Re- cezione e attualità alla luce del ...