In Freemasonry, symbols are important and everything has some symbolic meaning. Therefore, it will be much easier to understand the changes introduced if one looks at the external, and therefore symbolic, meaning of these changes. Let us perhaps start with the most obvious matter. The priest’s turning away from the Altar with the tabernacle) and facing the people is a turning away from God, a symbol of the dethronement of Jesus Christ our Lord, and the enthronement of man. And who is man without God?