This is exactly a wound in the Church: The protestant shaping of our liturgy. This is evident. In the vast majority of the Catholic Parishes and Churches all over the world and in the Monasteries, the Holy Mass, I mean the Novus Ordo, is celebrated facing the people, like a Protestant meeting, like a meal, like a conference talk from the exterior form.
It is already contrary to the entire Catholic tradition because all of the apostolic traditions from the first century and the Fathers of the Church, have always transmitted the prayers and the liturgy, where the priest and the people are facing the same direction, to the Lord, to the East, or the Cross in the Church. This changed radically, the Protestants introduced this because they denied the sacrificial character of the Mass. This form around the table or facing one another like a meal or a conference is Protestantizing.
And then also the simplification of the liturgy. For example, in the Churches, there are no more visible divisions of the signs, where the priesthood is the sanctuary and the communion rail, and then the nave of the Church which is the common priesthood. In many churches, the communion rail was destroyed. Even the new churches are built in a way that there is almost no difference between the sanctuary and the nave. This is a confusion with the Protestant style where there is only one priesthood, there is no substantial difference between the ministerial priesthood and the common priesthood of the faithful. This is just but one example, so we have to return to it to heal this wound.
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