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A handsome volume of the
nest quality
The new Ordi- nariate Altar Missal is being published by the UK’s Catho- lic Truth Society, and will be a very handsome volume of the nest qual- ity – which is indi- cated by the cost: £300, or nearly AUD $800, in- cluding postage
to Australia. There are
no plans at this stage for a ‘people’s
missal’ due to
the expense, but plans are afoot to produce Mass booklets within
each Ordinariate.
This will be the second liturgi-
cal book published by the Holy See for the Ordinariates. The first, called Divine Worship – Occasional Services was published last year. This volume con- tains the Order of Holy Baptism and Confirmation for Adults and Older Children, the Order of Baptism for Infants and associated rites, the Order of Solemnisation of Marriage, and the Order of Funerals. All these draw on traditional Anglican resources, and are in the familiar language of the Book of Common Prayer.
Again, this is a very fine volume, which features black and white illustra-
tions
by the English
artist Martin Travers, work originally commissioned by the Anglican Society of St Peter and St Paul in 1939 for their publication, The Anglican Missal.
The Scriptural readings are from the Revised Standard Version — Second Catholic Edition, and the Psalms are the Coverdale version of the Book of Com- mon Prayer. The RSV–CE is the official- ly authorised version of Scripture for the Ordinariates. This version is also used with the new Missal for the Three Year cycle of Sunday readings for the Eucharist, the daily readings and those for Holy Days and other special commemorations. They are found in two very fine volumes of the Lection- ary published by Ignatius Press in the United States.
The Divine Of ce England), and the renowned Domini-
Sacraments, the Liturgy of the Hours and other liturgical books proper to the Anglican tradition, which have been ap- proved by the Holy See, so as to maintain the liturgical, spiritual and pastoral tradi- tions of the Anglican Communion within the Catholic Church, as a precious gift nourishing the faith of the members of the Ordinariate and as a treasure to be shared.
In other words, the life of the Cath- olic Church is to be enlarged and en- riched by the finest liturgical and spir- itual traditions specific to Anglicanism. This is the first time in history that dis- tinctive elements of an ecclesial com- munity established at the Reformation have found an honoured place in the life of the Catholic Church. (Approach- es have been made to the Holy See, ap- parently, from Lutheran sources for a similar arrangement.)
Earlier in the papal document, in referring to the Catholic Church, Pope Benedict concedes that “many elements of sanctification and truth are found outside her visible confines. Since these are gifts properly belonging to the Church of Christ, they are forces impel-
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The Divine Offices of Morning and Evening Prayer have not been officially published separately, but members of the Ordinariate are able to use the or- ders found in the 1662 Book of Com- mon Prayer or the 1928 Prayer Book, or the American Prayer Books. Each of the three Ordinariates publishes nationally its own daily Ordo for the Readings.
The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in the United Kingdom in 2012 published another fine volume called The Customary of Our Lady of Walsingham – Daily Prayer for the Ordinariate. This contains the tradi- tional Anglican Offices of Morning and Evening Prayer, the Litany, as well as among other things, an order for Com- pline (Night Prayer) with the Psalter of the Book of Common Prayer in its en- tirety.
An American precursor
in ‘Anglican Use’ parishes
This volume is largely the work of the well known liturgical scholar, Mon- signor Andrew Burnham (formerly Bishop of Ebbsfleet in the Church of
can theologian and author, Dom Aidan Nichols O.P., who also has an Anglican background.
The Missal and Occasional Services are latter day successors of what was called The Book of Divine Worship, authorised in the early 1980s by Pope St John Paul II for use in the United States of America for the so-called ‘Anglican Use’ par- ishes. This volume was largely based on the American Books of Common prayer of 1928 and 1979. These ‘Anglican Use’ parishes were established at the request of former bishops, clergy and laypeople of the Episcopal Church of the United States following significant changes in doctrine in that Church in the 1970s.
Enlarging and enriching the Roman Rite
Pope Benedict’s Anglicanorum Coeti- bus sought to recover the specific Eng- lish Christian heritage, culture and patrimony largely lost to the Catholic Church from the time of the Reforma- tion. As the Papal document says:
[T]he Ordinariate has the faculty to cel- ebrate the Holy Eucharist and the other