A Leaven In The World… Why My Parish Is Facing “East” Together This Lent
By FR. KEVIN M. CUSICK The futile closed circle of therapeutic naval-gazing hangs on like an overused joke in a few places still, one of them being the Church. The priest and people facing each other during the entire liturgy is a vestige of the illegitimate seizure and subjection of 2,000-year-old liturgical development by primitivist vandals in the post-Vatican period. The only thing this unscholarly lot left undone was to demand the liturgy be celebrated in Aramaic. Increasing numbers of young people are creating a buzz about ad orientem worship, in which the priest and people turn toward the Lord together during the eucharistic prayer, in a renewed push to recover the sacred and cast off the tired and broken…Continue Reading