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Fr. Kevin Drew: Out With the Old & In With the New: Ad Orientem Worship and Notre Dame’s New Altar – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Fr. Kevin Drew: Out With the Old & In With the New: Ad Orientem Worship and Notre Dame’s New Altar

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High-Altar. Photos provided by the Author

By Fr. Kevin Drew, Catholic Exchange, January 8, 2025

Ordained in 2012, Fr. Kevin Drew is a priest and pastor of the Diocese of Kansas City-St Joseph. He is well regarded for his preaching and evangelization. His Daily Mass and homily can be found at Catholic Radio Network.

I am continually struck by this photo of a Solemn High Mass.  It took place in a bombed-out cathedral in Germany after World War II ended.

The photo features three clerics standing in a straight line, all facing the altar in what we call ad orientem worship—toward the orient, the east, the rising Sun of Justice, who is Jesus Christ.  Despite the bombed-out chaos all around them, the priests are dialed in, focused on the supernatural action taking place in front of them.

Christ set out on a journey to Jerusalem with His disciples, and as the gospel states, Jesus walked in front ahead of them.  During the journey Christ turned around, faced them and said, “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death …”  …

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