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Lux_et_veritas
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Nice picture of Padre Pio. However, I believe the picture was snapped during a Tridentine Mass during the brief moment that the priest turns and says, “Orate Fratres…”Haha, it looks like the people are behind him to me. I’m just telling you what the GIRM says. Although, as pope, he has supreme authority in those matters so he can make his own rules as goes along
The Tridentine Mass was actually done towards the people too in certain circumstances like large papal Masses (similar to above):
I don’t want to hijack your thread, so I will link to this picture of Padre Pio facing the people during a large Tridentine Mass
freewebz.com/voicemag/pio.htm
However, since I’ve never been to a Tridentine, I will stand corrected if it does not occur this way, as it does in my Latin Novus Ordo at Assumption Grotto. I’ve snapped many a picture at Grotto at this point of the Mass when the priest turns.