CATEGORY: ASK FATHER Question Box — Fr. John Zuhlsdorf @ 2:34 pm From Facebook: Dear Fr. Z, The priest that celebrates de EF in Buenos Aires, has decided today to do it versus populum quoting a work of Card. Ratzinger that says that the cross must be the focal point or liturgical east. He also says that the rubrics of JXXIII’s missal doesn’t prescribe to celebrate the mass "ad orientem". Is this all right? What can we say to him? Please, forgive my poor english and thank you very much! No, there is nothing that requires the TLM (EF) to be celebrated ad orientem. In Roman Basilicas it was celebrated versus populum because of the way the altar was situated in the sanctuary: on the model of San Pietro, where the celebrant stood at the main altar...
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