Look To The East (Ad Orientem - toward Jerusalem)

Cardinal Sarah has my vote to be the next pope!   (Isn’t it time for another pope from Africa?  We haven’t had one in ages.)

STARTING THIS ADVENT, VATICAN LITURGY CHIEF CALLS ON ALL PRIESTS TO FACE EAST DURING THE EUCHARISTIC PRAYER AND CONSECRATION

https://www.romancatholicman.com/starting-advent-vatican-liturgy-chief-calls-priests-face-east-mass/

Speaking at a conference on the liturgy in London this past Tuesday, Cardinal Robert Sarah, who is the Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments (the highest authority in the Catholic Church), under Pope Francis, asked all bishops and priests to adopt the ancient posture in the Mass where the priest faces the tabernacle along with the congregation, rather than facing the people. He asked that the posture be adopted by Advent of this year, which begins November 27.

Cardinal Sarah also encouraged all Catholics to receive Communion on the tongue while kneeling.  (Bring back the altar rails!)

(The Catholic Church has already had an African Pope, three of them in fact. Pope St. Victor I (189-199), Pope St. Miltiades (311-314), and Pope St. Gelasius I (492-496) were all popes in the early church, and all three hailed from Africa.)