“But from the link you provided, and GIRM 299 and the USCCB took it even further:”
Your comment, as so often is the case, makes no sense in regard to the comment I posted. I pointed out that the New Mass was written with Ad Orientem in mind; it was assumed. The link shows ad orientem is not foreign to the New Mass. If you ever read the 1970 Missal you would know what it says. I guess you didn’t do your basic homework yet again, huh?
Don’t worry about my homework, Jr.
Here’s more crap from the GIRM:
303. In building new churches, it is preferable for a single altar to be erected, one that in the gathering of the faithful will signify the one Christ and the one Eucharist of the Church.
In already existing churches, however, when the old altar is so positioned that it makes the people’s participation difficult but cannot be moved without damage to artistic value, another fixed altar, skillfully made and properly dedicated, should be erected and the sacred rites celebrated on it alone. In order that the attention of the faithful not be distracted from the new altar, the old altar should not be decorated in any special way.