Catholic ping! (Warning: graphic-heavy thread about my trip to England)
I can say that the most beautiful, reverent, awe-inspiring, prayerful masses have been at the Brompton Oratory. I went to a Palm Sunday Tridetine High Mass in the Main Church, and WOW!!!!!!!! The Chant, the Gospel, the procession were incredible. The English could improve on the whole "communion" thing, after the "Agnus Dei" a mad unorganized rush to the altar rail begins.
Awesome!
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I made the pilgrimage to Walsingham and highly recommend it to all Catholics. Of course there is not much left of the old abbey. Westminster Cathedral Choir also has a great CD of hymns to Our Lady of Walsingham.
Some trivia for you re Fr. Faber:
When they disinterred his body to bring it back for burial at the Oratory, the coffin was completely empty apart from his patent leather shoes!!!
In August of 2000 I was in Italy, and a family friend took me an my Mother to a Jubilee Celebratory Mass in Sulmona, which is the home of Ovid, IIRC. The town predates Christ by quite a few years and has a feel that is indescribable. The road to Sulmona is triumphal flanked on each side with those strange sort of Pine trees which are enormouly tall, but have no vegetation except at the very top.
Anyway, the Mass was a High Mass offered in Latin with a full array of Altar Boys and Priests of all ages. It was unbelievably beautiful, moving and reverent.