Re: OT: Opinions wanted: person of vocatives

Staving Constentin Cornomorus:
>--- 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.
>
Thus symbolising, quite correctly, that Christ is present in the priest in
the miracle of Consecration.

Pete