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Tag Archives: ad orientem
Re-orienting a church
For your Brick By Brick file from the Mercury News, with my emphases and comments. Developer renovates Pittsburg [California] Catholic church By Rick Radin PITTSBURG — A 41-year-old Catholic church that was showing its age has a new look thanks … Read More →
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Brick by Brick
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Tagged ad orientem, reconstruction
32 Comments
32 Comments
New, Corrected Translation won’t be enough
Over at Vultus Christi Fr. Mark Kirby, OSB, is, with my editing, emphases (mostly) and comments… Pondering […] Mass Facing the People: The Single Greatest Obstacle to the Reform [That is what the great liturgist Klaus Gamber thought. Turning altars … Read More →
An eastward facing observation
Yesterday the Holy Father celebrated Holy Mass for the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord in the Sistine Chapel. Not a peep from the usual corners about ad orientem worship. It’s a given. Therefore,…. it is time for the … Read More →
A priest speaks about celebrating Mass “ad orientem” for 5 years
This is from Vultus Christi, the blog of Fr. Mark Daniel Kirby is Prior of the Diocesan Benedictine Monastery of Our Lady of the Cenacle in Tulsa, Oklahoma established by H.E. Most Rev. Edward Slattery. Fr. Kirby speaks about his … Read More →
Thoughts about the “Benedictine arrangement”
At NLM there are photos of a “Benedictine arrangement” of an altar in Bogota. The “Benedictine arrangement” is, of course, the placement of the Crucifix with candles at a versus populum Mass such that the Crucifix becomes the common focus, … Read More →
Posted in The future and our choices
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Tagged ad orientem, Benedictine Arrangment, Joseph Ratzinger, Spirit of the Liturgy
31 Comments
31 Comments
A priest’s thoughts about celebrating “ad orientem” for the first time
Do you remember the Monty Python sketch about the funniest joke in the word? It was so funny that it would kill you. Even just seeing a couple words of the joke on paper would put you in the hospital. … Read More →
Posted in ASK FATHER Question Box, Brick by Brick, Fr. Z KUDOS, Mail from priests
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Tagged ad orientem
45 Comments
45 Comments
Fr. Longenecker on ad orientem worship
Fr. Dwight Longenecker posted an entry about celebrating Holy Mass ad orientem. It is longish, so you can read the whole thing there. Here is some of it with my emphases and comments: Friday, October 29, 2010 Turning to the … Read More →
WDTPRS POLL: What direction do you prefer for the altar?
We have had a few entries lately about the position of the altar. Let’s have a quick poll. Please pick the best answer and share your reasons in the combox, below. I believe non-registered reader may be able to vote.
QUAERITUR: Using the orginal “main” altar rather than the “table”
From a seminarian reader: My present church is thinking on having a EF Mass as well as a Versus Deus [Deum] OF Mass. The Original High Altar is still in place with the Tabernacle. There is however a smaller “fixed” … Read More →
QUAERITUR: Where did Mass “facing the people” come from?
We should network our brain power for this. Father’s tired. From a reader: I once wrote (by invitation) an article for a diocesan newspaper in which I mentioned, inter alia, that Vatican II never called for the priest to face … Read More →
Posted in ASK FATHER Question Box, Classic Posts, SESSIUNCULA
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Tagged ad orientem, altar, facing the people, versus populum
101 Comments
101 Comments
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