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To: GF.Regis

Translation: Altars, with the tabernacle right in the center as unmistakable focal point, will be turned back around to allow the priest to celebrate Mass in relative solitude with his back to the congregation, instead of facing and speaking directly to the faithful as Vatican II decreed.

This is patently false. Vatican II never decreed any such thing. The bishops used V2 as an excuse to have Mass facing the people.


14 posted on 07/27/2005 1:31:05 PM PDT by jrny (Oremus pro Pontifice nostro Benedicto Decimo Sexto.)
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To: jrny

"...to allow the priest to celebrate Mass in relative solitude with his back to the congregation, instead of facing and speaking directly to the faithful as Vatican II decreed."

What difference does it make which way the priest faces?
Why do people care so passionately and angrily about this sort of thing either way?


57 posted on 07/27/2005 2:29:01 PM PDT by Vicomte13 (Et alors?)
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