| 10. Everyone should be facing East, "the central place of
revelation." |
| 9. The East is also the "fundamental synthesis of cosmos and
history." |
| 8. We shouldn't be looking at the priest but at the Lord.
|
| 7. Jews and Muslims face East when they pray. |
| 6. At the Last Supper, Jesus and the apostles all faced the
same way. |
| 5. In Christian antiquity everyone always sat on the same
side of the table. |
| 4. Until the Reformation, no one suggested the presider
should face the people. |
| 3. The mass isn't a meal anyway, it's sacrifice and
praise. |
| 2.Turning the priest toward the people turns the community
into a self-absorbed, self-enclosed circle. |
| 1. It's about time to correct the misreadings and abuses of
Vatican II by misguided liturgists. We're not making this up. These reasons are
taken from Ratzinger's forthcoming book, The Spirit of the Liturgy. |
