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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... Prayer 21 35 35 2 . The Direction of Prayer and the Position of the Celebrant at the Altar 3. Liturgy and Church Architecture 65309 67 III The Common Direction of Liturgical Prayer : Its Theological and Spiritual Contents 89 89 I. The ...
Orientation in Liturgical Prayer Uwe Michael Lang. FOREWORD To the ordinary churchgoer , the two most obvious effects of the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council seem to be the disappearance of Latin and the turning of the ...
Orientation in Liturgical Prayer Uwe Michael Lang. made a suggestion . The physical orientation , the Congrega- tion says , must be distinguished from the spiritual . Even if a priest celebrates versus populum , he should always be ...
Orientation in Liturgical Prayer Uwe Michael Lang. Innsbruck liturgist Josef Andreas Jungmann , one of the ar- chitects of the Council's Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy , was from the very beginning resolutely opposed to the po ...
Orientation in Liturgical Prayer Uwe Michael Lang. informed judgment . The book is especially valuable in show- ing the contribution made by the Church of England to this question and in giving , also , due consideration to the part ...
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 |