Monica Mohan's letter, "Is this discrimination?" (Dec. 27), reveals a lightning-rod issue simmering in the universal Catholic Church. To ban kneelers during Holy Communion at the New Mass is a veiled slight against the Old Mass. It is discrimination. Blame it all on Vatican II of the 1960s. When the Old Mass (Latin Mass) and the New Mass (Novus Ordo) are compared, it's noticed that the Latin Mass is a more solemn and penitential profession of faith, while the New Mass is liturgical light and breezy. How so? Compare the prayer missals. Very few Catholics know the priests are facing the wrong way during the New Mass. For centuries, before Vatican II, the priests faced correctly, i.e., liturgical East. It's Biblical, thus a historical tradition. Why constrict almost two-thousand years of tradition? And this tradition is based on the Gospel of Matthew 24:27: East is the direction to look, for the return of Christ.
Daniel Pryor
West side
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