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 domestic Institute, and this is Pines with Aquinas.

In this episode, I would like to talk about liturgical orientation.

Certainly in the last three years the arguments regarding the old right and the

new right have heated up and with those arguments the arguments regarding

ad orientum and versus populum celebration have also heated up.

But when arguments heat up it doesn't necessarily lead to better discourse

or clearer discourse sometimes just leads to better discourse or clearer discourse, sometimes it just leads to louder

discourse and angrier discourse.

So do I think that we can rise above said loud and angry discourse?

Probably not.

But I do think that we can do our best to host the arguments and to work our way

through some of them so that way we can have a better appreciation for the church's tradition

and hopefully a better appropriation thereof. So the church's orientation, let's get after it, here we go.

Okay, so when it comes to this issue, you got lots of takes, and you've also got lots of arguments.

I think the general impression is that a younger

generation is more for the celebration of the Sacred Mysteries

odd orientum, whereas an older generation is more against the celebration of the Holy

Mass at Orientum.

Whether or not that's true, I don't know.

I haven't looked at the data closely, or I don't know how that data would be gathered

slash whether it is gathered regardless.

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