Turning Towards the Lord: Orientation in Liturgical PrayerIgnatius Press, 2004 - 156 pages 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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Orientation in Liturgical Prayer Uwe Michael Lang. To the memory of Father Michael Napier of the Oratory CONTENTS Foreword , by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger Acknowledgments Introduction 9.
Orientation in Liturgical Prayer Uwe Michael Lang. CONTENTS Foreword , by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger Acknowledgments Introduction 9 13 15 The Reform of the Liturgy and the Position of the Celebrant at the Altar II Direction of Prayer ...
... celebration of the sacred liturgy . I wish the book a wide and attentive readership . Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger Rome , Laetare Sunday 2003 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I am happy to acknowledge my debt to all 12 Turning towards the Lord.
... and guide us to the fullness of the Divine Life . In this sense , Cardinal Ratzinger underlines the ' Exodus char- 4 Translating ibid . , 157 . acter ' of the liturgy . Reinhard Meßner refers to 16 Turning towards the Lord.
... Cardinal Ratzinger's book The Spirit of the Liturgy , Pierre - Marie Gy also talks about the direction of liturgical prayer . His comments , however , reflect neither the current state of historical research nor the present theological ...
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 |