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‘Ad Orientem’: Back to the Liturgical Future

Is widespread ad orientem — toward the [liturgical] east — celebration of the Holy Mass the future? Not immediately so, but there are reasons to think that it may indeed become so over the next 10 to 20 years. The alternatives to ad orientem celebration — where the priest and people together face the same direction toward the altar — have been tried and found wanting. [1]