"That being said, after five years of offering Holy Mass ad orientem, I can say that I never want to have to return to the versus populum position. [Do I hear an ???Amen!????] While traveling, I am, however, sometimes obliged to celebrate versus populum, notably in Ireland, in France and Italy; it leaves me with a feeling of extreme inappropriateness. [Understandable.] I suffer from what I can only" . . . .