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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... question . Despite their great reputations , they were unable to make their voices heard at first , so strong was ... questions asked by Jungmann , Bouyer , and Gamber without at once being sus- pected of anti - conciliar sentiments ...
... question and in giving , also , due consideration to the part played by the Oxford Movement in the nineteenth century ( in which the conversion of John Henry Newman ma- tured ) . It is from such historical evidence that the author ...
... question that , in an age when man has made himself the centre of his own consciousness , when the greatness and the risks of human society shape our experience , the gathering of the faithful around the altar is felt to be more ...
... question of the focal point of the presidential prayer needs to be considered seri- ously .... If the common ... Questions Liturgiques 83 ( 2002 ) : 125 . A. Gerhards , " Blickt nach Osten ! " Die Ausrichtung von Priester und Gemeinde ...
... question by the experience of community practice.10 Gerhards also observes that present liturgical scholarship is ... Questions Liturgiques 83 ( 2002 ) : 165 : ' Cela favorise une consommation passive plutôt qu'une par- ticipation active ...
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 |