To: Campion
..."which was not built to allow ad orientem and has never had an ad orientem Mass."If you're talking about free-standing altars, they never necessitated an ad populum mass.
Saint Peter's basilica has long had a free standing altar where Mass has been celebrated both ways.
25 posted on
08/06/2024 10:27:17 AM PDT by
ebb tide
("The Spirit of Vatican II" is nothing more than a wicked "idealogy" of the modernists.)
To: ebb tide
There's no way to celebrate ad orientem when there's barely a foot between the front of the altar and the sanctuary steps, as there is in the church I'm talking about, built before the Novus Ordo was promulgated.
26 posted on
08/06/2024 1:08:06 PM PDT by
Campion
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To: ebb tide
Dedicated in 1968. If you wanted to celebrate ad orientem, you'd need to move the altar about 6 feet back from where it is, and has been, since 1968.
27 posted on
08/06/2024 1:11:11 PM PDT by
Campion
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