Re: OT: Opinions wanted: person of vocatives

Staving Tristan:
>On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 00:13, Costentin Cornomorus wrote:
> > --- Peter Bleackley
> > <Peter.Bleackley@...> wrote:
> >
> > > Some revisions of the
> > > Liturgy were made, for
> > > example, the priest now faces the congregation
> > > instead of the wall.
> >
> > East. Or the Tabernacle, if you will.
>
>East? Why east? 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.
Traditionally, churches were built with the altar at the east end. The
rising sun was seen as a symbol of the Resurrection of Christ, the Light of
the World. The position of the altar is conventionally referred to as east,
even if the church is actually built facing a different way.

Pete