OF Mass Ad Orientem?

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I came across this link about Bishop Conley offering the ordinary form Mass ad orientem in the Diocese of Lincoln. The article is from 2014 so I presume this has been done for a year now.

Personally, I have never seen the ordinary form Mass offered ad orientem. I’m wondering if this is done in other places.

I realize that the EF is done ad orientem, but for the OF it is rarer, I presume. Has anyone had any experience of this?

onepeterfive.com/bishop-conley-lincoln-offer-mass-ad-orientem-advent/
 
I have and it was wonderful. I wish all Masses were celebrated ad orientem. I can’t stand the circle of community feel that results with the priest facing the people.
 
Yes, I’ve seen it a number of times here in the Archdiocese of Vancouver. Cardinal Sarah, whom Pope Francis appointed Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship recently lauded the use Ad Orientem in the OF. Both Popes Benedict and Francis have publicly celebrated OF masses AO a few times.
 
Here in the archdiocese of Santa Fe, NM, the only place I’ve seen the OF Mass celebrated ad orientum is at a small chapel called “The Chapel of the Holy Innocents”. It’s part of Albuquerque’s pregnancy resource center named “Women’s Pregnancy Options” - a center run by Project Defending Life. But Masses here are celebrated ad orientum by default - there’s not enough room in the chapel for a “Versus Populum” altar.
 
Father Z. had a blog about a priest who celebrated almost exclusively ad orientem here.

Around here, I think the OF Mass is celebrated quite reverently. But I wonder how it would be received if a priest celebrated it ad orientem.

The only time I can recall attending a mass this way (other than the EF before it was extraordinary!) was on one occasion when my wife and I were visiting a priest in a different city, and he celebrated Mass for us in a side chapel of an old church. Of necessity, the mass was ad orientem; the altar was fixed against the wall and we all faced the altar.
 
Where I used to live in the UK there was an ordinariate parish where ad orientem was the norm. Also when I’ve been in Rome on pilgrimage I think all but one of the Masses were ad orientem.
 
There is a group of Franciscans of the Immaculate near here; daily OF Mass, ad orientem, frequent chant, at least once a week all in Latin (except readings & homily). Also great to have them offering daily confession and weekly adoration.
 
Our priest recently switched to saying Ad Orientem Masses at one of his two parishes. It was interesting when I first attended it, since I had never been to an OF Mass celebrated that way, though I have been to many EF Masses so the concept is not foreign to me.
 
The mass at my old parish was both ad orientum and versus populum simultaneously, since for some strange reason the sanctuary was oriented westward. So I guess technically the people should have had their back to the priest. Not possible given the pews.

But I know that is not what you meant. 😉
 
Yes.
At one time I lived in rural Scotland. We only had a chapel in our village and the altar was fixed to the back wall. It was Historically Listed, so it couldn’t be altered.

The whole building was Listed, which amused me somewhat, being that it was a small corrugated iron shack next to the stockyards. It didn’t even have a steeple, those being illegal for Catholic churches when the chapel was built.

We also knelt at the altar rail to receive Communion and the altar boy used a paten with a handle in case a Host was dropped. Reception in the hand was discouraged.
 
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