Liturgical Movement

Perhaps the lesson of the ACNA BCP for us is this: thoughtful contemporary-language retrieval of classical Anglican liturgical texts and forms is very possible...However, when such retrieval sets up a uniform classical Anglicanism against errors or excesses of the liturgical movement, it can smooth out of differences in the classical Anglican tradition in a way that produces less-than-coherent liturgies.

In the Liturgical Movement, the posture was ressourcement, an instinct to draw from old, significant wells long forgotten.

Out of the dust of the ground and by his own “inbreathing,” God also forms us, who say the Daily Office.

Continuity in prayer book worship

Liturgical scholar Leonel Mitchell played a central role in preparing the 1979 Book of Common Prayer.

By the 1940s St. John’s Abbey became a showpiece and a center for robust and engaging liturgical celebration.