Turning Toward the Lord: Orientation in Liturgical PrayerIgnatius Press, 2010 M09 29 - 160 pages Introduction 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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... 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 ... liturgical action. Louis Bouyer (like Jungmann, one of the Council's leading ...
Orientation in Liturgical Prayer Michael Lang. The Liturgical Movement ... liturgy of the Second Vatican Council'. Be that as it may, Gerhards concedes ... Eucharist should not be played off against its character as a sacred banquet ...
... Rite, and a common direction of prayer for the Liturgy of the Eucharist in the strict sense, especially the canon. This proposal has been criticised from different points of view. Rudolf Kaschewsky highlights the 'latreutic' element for ...
Orientation in Liturgical Prayer Michael Lang. the fore during the eucharistic liturgy (excepting the distribution of Holy Communion), when the congregation under the leadership of the priest is before the Lord to offer the sac- rifice ...
... liturgy, it is not indispensable that the altar should be versus populum: in the Mass, the entire liturgy of the word is celebrated at the chair, ambo or lectern, and, therefore, facing the assembly; as to the eucharistic liturgy ...