Turning Towards the Lord: Orientation in Liturgical PrayerTurning 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. |
From inside the book
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... Liturgy and Church Architecture 65309 67 III The Common Direction of Liturgical Prayer : Its Theological and Spiritual Contents 89 89 I. The Relevance of Liturgical Practice in the Early Church 2 . Turning to the Lord - The Theological ...
... liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council seem to be the disappearance of Latin and the turning of the altars ... Liturgy of the Word , but the preceding general rule of the Council text says , ' Partic- ular law remaining in ...
... liturgy and resists the fanaticisms that , unfortunately , have not been un- common in the controversies of the last forty years . At the same time it highlights the internal direction of liturgical action , which can never be expressed ...
... Liturgy of the Word has the character of proclamation and dialogue , to which address and response can rightly belong . But in the Liturgy of the Eucharist the priest leads the peo- ple in prayer and is turned , together with the people ...
Orientation in Liturgical Prayer Uwe Michael Lang. informed judgment . The book is especially valuable in show- ing the ... liturgy . I wish the book a wide and attentive readership . Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger Rome , Laetare Sunday 2003 ...
Contents
The Reform of the Liturgy and the Position of the Celebrant at the Altar | 21 |
Direction of Prayer Liturgy and Church Architecture in the Early Church | 35 |
The Direction of Prayer and the Position of the Celebrant at the Altar | 56 |
Liturgy and Church Architecture85 | 67 |
The Common Direction of Liturgical Prayer Its Theological and Spiritual Contents | 89 |
Turning to the LordThe Theological Dimension of Liturgical Practice | 100 |
The position of the celebrant and the sacrificial character of the Mass | 109 |