Mass ad orientem - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 25 Jul 2019 06:07:22 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Mass ad orientem - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Bishop encourages priests to celebrate Mass ad orientem https://cathnews.co.nz/2019/07/25/bishop-mass-ad-orientem/ Thu, 25 Jul 2019 07:53:36 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=119721 US Bishop James Wall of Gallup says each Sunday a Mass at Sacred Heart Cathedral will be said with the celebrant facing ad orientem - the same direction as the faithful, in order better to respect the Blessed Sacrament. Such worship, he said in a July 22 letter to the Diocese of Gallup, is "a Read more

Bishop encourages priests to celebrate Mass ad orientem... Read more]]> US Bishop James Wall of Gallup says each Sunday a Mass at Sacred Heart Cathedral will be said with the celebrant facing ad orientem - the same direction as the faithful, in order better to respect the Blessed Sacrament.

Such worship, he said in a July 22 letter to the Diocese of Gallup, is "a very powerful reminder of what we are about at Mass: meeting Christ Who comes to meet us.

"Practically speaking, this means that things will look a bit different, for at such Masses the Priest faces the same direction as the Assembly when he is at the altar." Read more

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