This video is an excerpt from a tablet app called "Mass Explained." The apps website can be visited here: www.MassExplainedApp.com In the extraordinary form of the Roman Rite of the Mass (the Latin Mass or Tridentine Mass), the priest offers Mass facing the same direction as the people, because he and the people together are offering worship and sacrifice to God. He is not "turning his back" on the people to exclude them. Rather, as a Christian community, are all facing ad orientem (i.e. toward the east) waiting in joyful expectation for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ who will return to judge the living and the dead. In the Novus Ordo or Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite of the Mass, the priest faces Versus populum (Latin for "towards the people"). If you find this video interesting, please consider visiting www.MassExplainedApp.com and give us a "like."

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