Celebration toward the east fosters silence. Indeed,....

“ Celebration toward the east fosters silence. Indeed, there is less temptation for the celebrant to monopolize the conversation. Facing the Lord, he is less tempted to become a professor giving a lesson throughout the Mass, reducing the altar to a podium centered on the microphone instead of the Cross. ”

Robert Sarah

From : The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise