Ad Orientem in Oklahoma
Bishop Edward James Slattery "has announced a return to the practice of celebrating the Eucharistic liturgy ad orientem in his cathedral" — Tradition wins over "personality" in Oklahoma.
His Excellency explains that the postconciliar volte-face "had a number of unforeseen and largely negative effects," in that "it was a serious rupture with the Church's ancient tradition," "it can give the appearance that the priest and the people were engaged in a conversation about God, rather than the worship of God," and "it places an inordinate importance on the personality of the celebrant by placing him on a kind of liturgical stage."
His Excellency explains that the postconciliar volte-face "had a number of unforeseen and largely negative effects," in that "it was a serious rupture with the Church's ancient tradition," "it can give the appearance that the priest and the people were engaged in a conversation about God, rather than the worship of God," and "it places an inordinate importance on the personality of the celebrant by placing him on a kind of liturgical stage."
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