Hello, my name is Father Gregory Pine, and I am a Dominican friar of the province of St. Joseph.

I teach at the Dominican House of Studies, and I work for the Tomistic Institute,

and this is Pines with Aquinas.

A couple of weeks ago, I made a video about the celebration of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass at Orientum.

So you probably come across this conversation before about liturgical orientation, whether the priest should face

versus Popolum, that is towards the people, or odd orientum that is towards the

east, some people say facing the father, some people will say like

towards the apse, various ways in which to describe it, but whether the priest

faces the people or the priest and people face the same direction in their liturgical orientation.

And yeah, in the days slash weeks since that video I've gotten a couple of emails from folks with objections or with counter arguments.

So I wanted to entertain some of them.

And I don't always respond to emails directly.

It just depends upon how much time I have

and whether I can. But I thought that I'd make just a

little video so I can hopefully answer the majority of them and to do so yeah responsibly

so here we go.

Okay, in the last video, I began by saying that the church has the right, you know right to organize her liturgy. So a lot of these questions aren't so much set down

by like natural law or divine law as they are

by ecclesiastical law, which is a kind of divine law but a

defined positive law. You're like, all right Father Gregory keep going. So the

church, you know in her wisdom has made a determination about the celebration of the holy Mass, that it is permitted to celebrate it

versus Popolum, and we talked about the text there from Sacrosanctum-Conchilium and the way that it is interpreted

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