Re: OT: Opinions wanted: person of vocatives

--- Tristan <kesuari@...> wrote:

> East? Why east?
Tradition? Many older christian churches face
eastwards. Cetainly not all.

Anyway, the point was that the priest should be
every bit the worshipper and should face the same
direction as his fellows. The new direction puts
the priest very much in the place of Jesus,
facing the people.

> The church I grew up going to has the
tabernacle
> pointing to the north; St Patrick's Cathedral
> (the main Catholic church
> of the Archdiocese of Melbourne) faces
> north-east. Both of these
> churches were constructed before Vatican II.
> The church my family
> currently goes to faces south, and was
> constructed after Vatican II.
Well, post V-II, anything goes. You get all these
round churches, churches without tabernacles,
practically without altars.

Padraic.


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beuyont alch geont la ciay la cina
mangeiont alch geont y faues la lima;
     pe' ne m' molestyont
     que faciont
doazque y facyont in rima.

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