{"id":2719,"date":"2008-04-08T21:36:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T21:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2008\/04\/facing-the-lord\/"},"modified":"2008-04-08T21:36:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-08T21:36:00","slug":"facing-the-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2008\/04\/facing-the-lord.html","title":{"rendered":"Facing the Lord"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_5BV_YADVD7o\/R_wd9k1-ssI\/AAAAAAAABbU\/4bIF3EeUFQE\/s1600-h\/ad+orientem.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin:0px auto 10px;text-align:center;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_5BV_YADVD7o\/R_wd9k1-ssI\/AAAAAAAABbU\/4bIF3EeUFQE\/s400\/ad+orientem.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\">Last week I began saying Mass in our daily Mass chapel at St Joseph\u2019s Catholic School facing East. I do so on two days of the week, while facing the people on the other three days. I\u2019m also taking time to explain the change and what it means and why we are doing it.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\">We will also begin the changeover at St Mary\u2019s quite soon. I hope to post some photographs here on the blog of both celebrations, as well as the responses and reactions of our people.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\">This photograph is courtesy of Shawn Tribe at New Liturgical Movement blog.<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_5BV_YADVD7o\/R_wdy01-srI\/AAAAAAAABbM\/db9NlYH5sgY\/s1600-h\/ad+orientem.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><br><\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I began saying Mass in our daily Mass chapel at St Joseph\u2019s Catholic School facing East. 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