Auxilia ad Missam in forma ordinaria celebrandam secundum Œcumenicum Concilium Vaticanum II
Many priests will be asking, how exactly does ad orientem work? When would I turn to face the people and when would I face forward “with the people” towards God?
Full report:
http://newtheologicalmovement.blogspot.it/2016/07/how-to-celebrate-mass-ad-orientem.html
Ever since Cardinal Sarah’s ad orientem endorsement, and subsequent slap down by voices in the Holy See, there is debate on both sides favoring ad orientem celebration of the Holy Mass.
Taylor Marshall
Full article here.
Tradução português: “O que é mais tradicional: Missa ad orientem ou versus populum?“.
The mind of the Council, of any council in history, is to be found in only one place: its decrees and documents. The Second Vatican Council did not countenance Mass versus populum or Communion in the hand and it if did, it would have said so, as it did with the possibility of limited use of vernacular languages in the Mass. We have seen that the old truism, give them an inch and they will take a mile, has operated with regard to the vernacular at Mass. Yet even without an inch being given by the Council Fathers, versus populum and Communion in the hand have become well-nigh universal.
Read whole post by Fr Hugh Somerville-Knapman OSB here.
Fr Hugh’s blog Dominus Mihi Adjutor. A monk’s-eye view of things.
Je souhaite engager une grande réflexion sur cette question, afin de remettre l’eucharistie au centre de notre vie. Je constate que beaucoup de nos liturgies deviennent des spectacles. Souvent, le prêtre ne célèbre plus l’amour du Christ à travers son sacrifice, mais une rencontre entre amis, un repas convivial, un moment fraternel. En cherchant à inventer des liturgies créatives ou festives, nous courons le risque d’un culte trop humain, à la hauteur de nos désirs et des modes du moment. Peu à peu, les fidèles s’éloignent de ce qui nous donne la Vie. Pour les chrétiens, l’eucharistie, c’est une question de vie ou de mort!
Article complet:
Hay que aclarar la terminología, porque “las palabras son balas”, como gustaba decir Lenin: el sacerdote no está “dándole la espalda al pueblo”, sino “mirando a Dios”, “de cara a Dios”, así como el fiel de la primera fila en la iglesia tampoco está “de espaldas al que está en el segundo banco” sino mirando hacia el altar.
Artículo aquí.
Contrairement à ce que l’on a parfois prétendu, il est tout à fait conforme à la Constitution conciliaire, il est même opportun que, pendant le rite pénitentiel, le chant du Gloria, les Oraisons, et la Prière eucharistique, tous, prêtre et fidèles, se tournent ensemble vers l’Orient, pour exprimer leur volonté d’entrer en participation de l’œuvre de culte et de rédemption opérée par le Christ.
(Card. Robert Sarah. Article complet ici)
A number of liturgical reforms seen in the U.S. since Vatican II were not actually mandated or even recommended by the Council, but were reactionary shifts that had more to do with the culture of the decade – it’s time to revisit those changes.
By Michael Raia
By George Weigel
As discussion of deepening the Church’s liturgical reform unfolds, a lively conversation will likely revolve around be the question of “orientation” during Mass: Might priest and people face in the same direction, toward the Holy Trinity, during the celebration of the Eucharistic liturgy?
Read the whole article here.