After the Council, detailed directions for the celebration of the revised form of Mass were drawn up, including an instruction that the priest should celebrate Mass facing the people, in accordance with the rites of the Church.
Read moreTag: Fr. Uwe Michael Lang
New Consultants for Liturgies with Pope
It appears to be a sea change.
Read more“Reform of the Reform” Scholar Leaves Vatican
Nothing is known about the reason for Uwe Michael Lang’s departure. As his call to Rome was heartily greeted by traditionalist circles, his return to London has been met with regret.
Read moreMass facing the people—a defense
To some readers of Pray Tell it might seem eyebrow-raising to be addressing this issue in the summer of 2012. But some of our friends continue to assert that we regular celebrators of the OF are laboring under a massive misunderstanding of the implementation documents of the liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council.
So let’s look at this issue again.
Read moreSacred Art – Recapturing a Treasure
by Bishop Arthur J. Serratelli, Paterson, New Jersey
“Byzantine, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, Modern and Post-Modern: there is no one style that the Church has canonized.”