Any Novus Ordo Masses celebrated Ad Orientem?

[Mark1970]

The Holy Name, Manchester, England celebrates all Masses, whether OF or EF, ad orientam. Their website is: www.holyname.co.uk. If you search through the website, you should be able to find some photos of their services. The church is run by Oratorians and (I believe) all their churches in the UK (Birmingham Oratory, Oxford and Brompton Oratories) also celebrate orientam.

 

[SKWill]

Here in Tulsa, Bishop Slattery celebrates Mass Ad Orientem. It is beautiful, the only awkward thing is that the cathedral was built with the altar facing the West. I don’t know if it was a mistake or what. The cathedral was built after the land rush in Oklahoma. So I don’t know. But all things aside, I am grateful the bishop celebrates Mass Ad Orientem everytime.

It is my understanding that within his diocese, Bishop Slattery celebrates ad orientem only when celebrating Ordinary Form Masses at Holy Family Cathedral or when celebrating EF Masses at appropriate locations such as Clear Creek Monastery. I believe this is a practical issue – with few churches in the diocese having room between their altars and altar steps for AO celebration.

As far as which direction the Tulsa Cathedral faces, I don’t think there is (or was) any requirement for a church’s liturgical east (i.e. the location of the apse) be aligned with its geographic east. Facing east from the altar of St. Peter’s Basilica requires facing the congregation in the nave. It is my understanding that in the nearly-500 years of the current St. Peter’s Basilica, Mass at the Papal Altar has always been said facing geographic east, thus being versus populum and literally ad orientem at the same time. [see: Blogger orientem”: the Papal Altar in St. Peter’s Basilica] I’ve heard that in the pre-Vatican II era at St. Peter’s that the laity assembled in the nave turned to face geographic east during the Eucharistic Prayer. I don’t have confirmation of that story; I’ll leave that to the experts here at CAF.

 

[TheMc]

The Holy Name, Manchester, England celebrates all Masses, whether OF or EF, ad orientam. Their website is: www.holyname.co.uk. If you search through the website, you should be able to find some photos of their services. The church is run by Oratorians and (I believe) all their churches in the UK (Birmingham Oratory, Oxford and Brompton Oratories) also celebrate orientam.

The best I found:
holyname.co.uk/images/mainaltar.jpg

Magnificent, none the less!

 

[laszlo]

This is where I attend Masses regularly

stpetervolo.org/

and this is their mother church in Chicago

cantius.org/

In both places the true and genuine Mass of All Ages in both form

 

[barb_finnegan]

**Does Hancville have a different bishop than Birmingham? I do remember when EWTN was made to change…Are they allowed to celebrate Mass facing the altar if NOT telivised. **

Hanceville [you spelled it wrong, BTW] is part of the diocese of Birmingham. I went to two Masses at the Shrine in 2005 and both were ‘ad orientum’. It was nice to see!

A few times in the course of the year there are EF Masses said at Hanceville that are televised. But the televised Daily Mass is at the EWTN chapel in Birmingham (actually, Irondale if you want to quibble), and that’s done ‘versus populum’.

 

[Warrenton]

About half of the Student Body of Christendom still kneels to receive communion though we are no longer permitted to use the Communion rail.

This is simply bizarre.

 

[TheMc]

This is simply bizarre.

It sure is. How in the world can a bishop ban a communion rail?

 

[laszlo]

If you are familiar with the EF (Mass of John XXIII, 1962 Missal), you should have no problems in distinguishing the two.

Did they recite the 1st chapter of the Gospel of John at the end? (After the dismissal and you making the sign of the cross at the blessing) (If yes, it was EF)

Was Communion given in the ‘typical’ fashion or was it done at the altar rail (the ‘traditional’ fashion)? (If at the end of lines standing up, it was OF)

You should be able to see both those two differences pretty easily.

Still John Paul II was right that if the new form is celebrated toward the altar and in Latin the majority of the people would not recognize the difference from the TLM. Both is the same Mass of all Ages.

The visible is only the beginning (at the foot of the altar instead of at the altar itself); the readings and Gospel (at the altar, at the ambo); and the end, the communion, and the conclusion. (the new form is much shorter)

In the sixties the change was made during six years between 1964 and 1970, so there was no rapid one time break.

 

[A2SciTeach]

Old Saint Patrick Church in Ann Arbor, MI, Father Gerald also celebrates TLM one Sunday per month (soon to be more, hopefully).