Facing Of The Priest During Mass.

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[quote name='qfnol31' date='Oct 8 2004, 01:23 AM']
I think this might imply that the Priest is normally facing away from the people, for it says the words "turned toward the altar" and "facing the people" as if they are normally seperate things. [/quote]
According to many accounts of the Council Fathers and even from some of the members of Bugnini's [i]Consilium[/i], the intention was not to have the entire Mass said facing the people. Rather, they thought it pastorally beneficial to have the readings read facing the people but that the rest, especially the Canon (which was not intended to be in the vernacular), would be said facing the altar.