(Clip) • Fr. Mike Schmitz endorses “Ad Orientem”
Is celebration “versus populum” a good idea? Father Mike’s answer might raise some eyebrows…
“What earlier generations held as sacred, remains sacred and great for us too…” Pope Benedict XVI (7 July 2007)
Is celebration “versus populum” a good idea? Father Mike’s answer might raise some eyebrows…
The Bishop of Little Rock has sent a letter (14 July 2016) forbidding his priests to celebrate Mass “ad orientem.”
A reader from Indonesia kindly sent us these…
The phrase “ad populum conversus” does appear in the postconciliar books, and no amount of polemical articles can change this fact.
Can AD ORIENTEM be excluded from the Novus Ordo? Vatican says: “Negatively, and in accordance with the following explanation.”
Could this be the missing link explaining why “versus populum” celebrations took over?
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