Oh my yes! When we (in our APCK parish) sing that one (#126, 1940 HB, "For all the saints, who from their labors rest...") I am sure the rafters are shaking; maybe it's just that that one stays well within the range most of us can sing, but we go full-throat with that one.
But I confess a weakness for Pange Lingua (#199, 1940 HB, "Now, my tongue, the mystery telling..."), and especially Adoro Devote (#204, 1940 HB, "Humbly I adore thee, Verity unseen...").
It is funny. As a child I was bored stiff by the 1928 BCP liturgy, but now I am beginning to be aware of and awed by its beauty and majesty, even if the language is not exakly modurn Merican.
I once heard that it is a short reach from (pre-Fall) Episcopalianism to Russian Orthodox. I confess to a tremendous amouont of ignorance here, and especially in anything to do with the label "Orthodox." Is it that close?
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Weeelllll... I don't want to say a short jump but it may be a shorter jump than from most other western churches. I'm assuming a high-church, fully sacramental Anglican rather than an Evangelical Anglican (not that I want to put them down).
What Orthodoxy is not compatible with is the deadly Elizabethan compromise -- a position which I really believe is responsible for today's apostasy (although that wasn't the original intent).
For those who don't know, Elizabeth I decided that the Church od England would be unified by common liturgy not by common doctrine. Grant that and everything else is downhill.
Paul (aka Newberger)
I think many people are hungry for a faith that DOESN'T adapt to the culture. We need a faith that is more anchored than the whims of the present day.