[Salvation]

Going back to the beginning of celebrations of Mass when the disciples would meet for the Eucharist in addition to their Jewish rituals, it is hard for me to visualize that whoever was celebrating the Eucharist would have their back to the other people in these home churches.

Maybe we all need to stop and think -- it's common sense!

[broadsword]

Perhaps not, but the Church DID reverently do it that way for at least three quarters of its long history, and it wasn't until the ANYTHING GOES! Mass became the norm that the visible Church began to flounder and falter, with countless souls lost to the pagan world as a result.

[drstevej]

***Going back to the beginning of celebrations of Mass when the disciples would meet for the Eucharist in addition to their Jewish rituals, it is hard for me to visualize that whoever was celebrating the Eucharist would have their back to the other people in these home churches.***

So the Tridentine Mass had it wrong?

Home churches.... how many home churches that hold mass today?