Are We Walking to Heaven Backward? A Pastoral Consideration of Liturgical “orientation.”

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ProVobis said:
For the record, in the EF the gospel is actually read facing the north. The reason is supposedly because that’s where the barbarians reigned when Masses were said in Europe. Makes sense to read the gospel in a barbaric language, I guess. 🙂
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The one I last went to, the priest faced the congregation when reading the Gospel (he faced West). That was the SSPX. Maybe ‘modernism’ is creeping in there too.:eek::eek::eek:
 
jimrob said:
The Mass is our attempt to follow Jesus’s mandate to re-enact the Last Supper in His memory. The Last Supper was a Pascal meal. The Apostles sat around a table with Jesus at their centre. Over the centuries we have managed to change this from a gathering to a queue with the priest speaking to God and the rest of us lined up behind him. The Second Vatican Council put Christ back into the centre of our celebrations rather than confining Him to the East Wall.

Anyway, my church was built with the West end facing East.
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There’s a reason why traditional Christian prayer and liturgy have for so many centuries had Christians praying facing East, and the reason goes all the way back to the time of Jesus, the apostles, and what is recorded in the gospel of St. Matthew. It’s because that’s the direction Christ is going to come from when he comes back at the end of time to judge the world. “For as the lightning comes from the east and shines as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of man.” - Matthew 24:27
 
Brendan_64 said:
The one I last went to, the priest faced the congregation when reading the Gospel (he faced West). That was the SSPX. Maybe ‘modernism’ is creeping in there too.:eek::eek::eek:
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Some questions:

Was this a Low Mass or a sung Mass of some sort?

Was this Gospel in Latin or English?
 
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