[sionnsar]

I understand that there is also an Anglican Use liturgy within the Catholic Church, wherein the Book of Common Prayer is used for the Mass (with minor updates). So there is no need to lose the liturgy Anglicans may be familiar with.

You are correct, and a link to it has been posted on FR in the past. It is essentially the 1928 BCP, with the absolutely ugliest and clunkiest (IMHO) element of the '79 inserted, and of course the other necessary minor updates.

I seem to recall the Orthodox have done much the same, but they ignored the "absolutely ugliest and clunkiest (IMHO) element of the '79" and added other necessary minor but rather lengthy updates.

*\;-)

[sionnsar]

Of couse, there is also the Charismatic Episcopal Church, which my father describes (if I remember correctly), a bunch of Evangelicals (?) who discovered the Book of Common Prayer and became liturgical Protestants.

Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant... all using the Anglican Book of Common Prayer. Amazing.

[Siobhan]

Actually to experience the Anglican Use Liturgy at Our Lady of Walsingham Catholic Church in Houston, Texas is to experience one of the most beautiful liturgies in the world.

It is one thing to read it on a page, it is another thing to experience it the way it has been shaped, nuanced, and loved into a parish's liturgical offering to the Most Holy Trinity.