Psallite Sapienter takes a look at the Prayer Book liturgyPosted onAugust 24, 2012by Foolishness For all my readers who are interested in liturgy, the Australian blog Psallite Sapienter takes a look at the 1662 Prayer Book and then the Australian Prayer Book to see whether what of Anglican Patrimony meets the Catholic test.One thing I learned right off the bat upon coming to our former Anglican Catholic Church of Canada parish is that there was a lot of skipping around in the Canadian 1962 Prayer Book and we never followed it in the order in which it was written on the pages.Here’s an excerpt: Now, High Church Anglicans, especially Anglo-Catholics, have often pinched all manner of prayers, rites and rituals from Catholic sources (there are tales of nineteenth and early twentieth century vicars taking holidays in Belgium, scouting out the practices of the churches therein, and promptly putting them into practice back in their parishes, to the amazement of their parishioners); but I will not be commenting on that particular practice, especially as the NLM and the Anglo-Catholic have been discussing the pros and cons of adopting for official Catholic use what is essentially the old Latin Mass put into Cranmerian English – and which was never officially approved for Anglican use in any case, since Anglo-Catholics just did it without authorization.

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Psallite Sapienter takes a look at the Prayer Book liturgy